Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.    

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.  

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.   

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.  

Position Summary: 

The Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer will report to the Director of Cloud Operations and will have overall responsibility for the implementation, administration, and day-to-day operations of public cloud (e.g., AWS) accounts used by Flagship Pioneering and its portfolio companies.

In this role, you will be part of building the cloud operations practice that emphasizes the practical needs of young, rapidly growing biotech companies, balancing stability and security with productivity and innovation.

The successful candidate will have expertise in AWS, DevOps, infrastructure as code, and automation.

A typical day could include collaborating with architects on tagging policies for Organizational Units (OUs), launching new AWS accounts for portfolio companies, solving complex bespoke problems, providing escalation support for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to ensure high-quality user support, creating process diagrams and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and writing Python code to automate the boring stuff.

Responsibilities

• Create, manage, administer, support, and operate AWS environments owned by Flagship’s early-stage portfolio companies, Pioneering Medicines, and Flagship Pioneering.
• Work closely with partners, stakeholders, and internal customers to ensure alignment and consistency.
• Identify, prioritize, and code operational innovations that increase productivity and create scalable value across the enterprise.
• Provide tier 3 escalation support to managed service providers who provide cloud operations support
• Provide subject matter expert cloud operations support to Flagship enterprise companies, including topics such as cost optimization and Well-Architected Reviews.
• Leverage AWS services such as Lambda, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail to build observability, automation, and analytics tools.
• Collaborate with architecture and product teams to identify areas for improvement outside the cloud space when appropriate.
• Ensure cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements
• Understand infrastructure-as-code principles to develop cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environment.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field OR equivalent years of experience 
• 5-9+ years of technical experience in Cloud and IT Infrastructure Operations focused on building and operating cloud environments 
• 4+ years of experience working with AWS in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar.
• 2+ years in an enterprise or similar environment that operates or supports across multiple separate business units or functions
• Strong level of scripting and automation expertise, using Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, or an equivalent language

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience dealing with compliance-related regulations like PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc. is preferred.
• Cloud (AWS) certificates
• At least 2 years working with biotech researchers in a cloud focused role
• Strong understanding of network, identity, and security fundamentals
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Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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