Cloud-Native Scientific Platform Engineer

Our client — a world-leading pharmaceutical company — is searching for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of Cloud, DevOps, and Software Engineering.

​This is your chance to work on a platform that processes petabytes of multi-omics, imaging, chemistry, and safety data, directly accelerating the discovery of life-saving therapies.

You will help ensure that Nextflow pipelines, HPC jobs, and AWS-powered analytics run smoothly across hybrid infrastructure.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you will work every day with:

• Software engineers
  
• Bioinformaticians
  
• Data scientists
  
• Research teams
  

…to operationalize cutting-edge science at a global scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud, DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Manage, optimize, and troubleshoot Nextflow pipelines for large-scale multi-omics workloads
  
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for cloud infrastructure and scientific workflow deployments
  
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
  
• Design and integrate AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, Batch, RDS, KMS into production environments
  
• Ensure security, compliance, auditing, and reproducibility of scientific compute workloads
  
• Scientific Computing & HPC
  
• Support and optimize high-performance computing jobs spanning on-prem HPC clusters and AWS
  
• Improve the reliability and throughput of analytical workflows processing petabytes of data
  
• Collaborate with researchers to translate scientific needs into robust engineering solutions
  

Software Engineering & Collaboration

• Contribute to the design of microservices enabling scientific data exploration and visualization
  
• Help build distributed systems supporting FAIR data principles
  
• Partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex engineering problems end-to-end
  

• Work inside a globally recognized pharmaceutical leader
  
• Directly contribute to drug discovery and patient-impacting research
  
• Be part of a high-caliber engineering team solving complex real-world problems
  
• Operate at the intersection of cloud, HPC, software engineering, and life sciences
  
• Drive innovation using cloud-native technologies, microservices, and large-scale compute
  
• Fully remote within the EU
  
• Flexible B2B freelance contract
  
• Mission-driven work with world-class researchers