At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.
Our Values:
- We Seek A Better Way: We innovate boldly, learn from our setbacks, and are resilient in our pursuit to transform cancer care
- We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, commit to quality, and bring fun to our hard work
- We Are Stronger Together: We collaborate openly, seek to understand, and celebrate our wins
- We Care Deeply: We embrace our differences, do the right thing, and encourage each other
We are seeking a hands-on Senior CloudOps Engineer to execute our cloud operations strategy. In this critical role, you will lead the technical implementation for our AWS CloudOps strategy, driving the adoption of modern operational practices across the organization. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing highly automated, reliable, and cost-efficient systems that support our production services, R&D initiatives, and corporate functions. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer with a deep passion for automation, a strategic mindset for system design, and proven experience mentoring and leading technical projects.
This position is a hybrid role based out of our San Diego or South San Francisco office. We may also be open to remote for the ideal candidate.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Work with CloudOps leadership to craft the roadmap for cloud operations, setting technical standards and best practices. Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design and implementation of key CloudOps requirements and initiatives. Develop solutions using imperative interfaces such as the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Pulumi.
- Continuous Delivery (CD): Architect, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable releases.
- Automation & Scalability: Drive automation initiatives across the organization, developing scripts (Python, Bash, etc.) and tooling to eliminate manual tasks, improve system scalability, and streamline operational workflows.
- Reliability & Observability: Implement and manage sophisticated monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, Sumo Logic, Prometheus, Grafana) and lead the strategy for incident response and post-mortems.
- Cloud Financial Management (FinOps): Champion our cloud cost optimization efforts. You will lead the analysis of AWS spend, implement governance policies, and engineer solutions to maximize cost-efficiency without compromising performance.
Who You Are:
- 8+ years of experience in CloudOps, SRE, or DevOps, with a proven history of technical leadership and project ownership.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, Pulumi, TF CDK) and designing complex CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
- Expert-level Python scripting skills and deep knowledge of managing large-scale AWS Organizations using services like Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, VPC, and EC2.
- Experience with regulatory compliance frameworks, particularly in healthcare (HIPAA, CLIA, FDA).
- Strong skills in observability, FinOps (cloud cost optimization), cloud networking, and security.
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The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Veracyte is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.
What We Can Offer You
Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.
About Veracyte
Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global genomic diagnostics company that improves patient care by providing answers to clinical questions, informing diagnosis and treatment decisions throughout the patient journey in cancer and other diseases. The company’s growing menu of genomic tests leverage advances in genomic science and technology, enabling patients to avoid risky, costly diagnostic procedures and quicken time to appropriate treatment. The company’s tests in lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, bladder cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are available to patients and its lymphoma subtyping and renal cancer tests are in development. With Veracyte’s exclusive global license to a best-in-class diagnostics instrument platform, the company is positioned to deliver its tests to patients worldwide. Veracyte is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com and follow the company on X (Formerly Twitter).
Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our CCPA Disclosure Notice.
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