You + Helix
Helix is a place where innovators and doers gather in order to drive significant progress in population genomics. We have come together to work at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics.听聽
If you鈥檙e excited by the idea of making a meaningful impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on driving innovation through fostering an environment with an emphasis on empowering one another to grow, Helix might be the place for you!
Helix + The World
Helix is the leading population genomics company. Helix enables health systems, public health organizations and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into patient care and public health decision making.
We are continuing to scale our world-class team to support our dedication to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA.听
Helix + Transparency
At Helix, we value transparency. You will find the expected compensation, interview process, what to anticipate during onboarding, and your first 90 days listed in the job description for all Helix roles.
What is special about this role?
As a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer 鈥� Cloud & Automation at Helix, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, and securing our critical cloud infrastructure that supports our platform. You collaborate closely with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to innovate and evolve our cloud infrastructure while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
As a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer 鈥� Cloud & Automation, you will:
- Lead the strategic evolution of our cloud infrastructure, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance support for product teams. Drive innovation in cloud infrastructure strategy.
- Collaborate with product management, scientists, and engineering teams to understand intricate requirements and develop comprehensive, forward-thinking engineering designs.
- Architect and implement highly reliable and massively scalable cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS and potentially other platforms, anticipating future growth and evolving user and health system needs. Ensure alignment with the long-term architectural vision.
- Champion and promote Cloud Engineering best practices across teams, influencing technical direction and standards.
- Strategically lead initiatives to optimize cloud spending, demonstrating a strong understanding of budget ROI and resource utilization.
- Spearhead the development and advancement of sophisticated CI/CD pipelines for highly automated, efficient, and resilient build, test, and deployment processes.
- Define and implement comprehensive observability strategies, selecting and managing advanced tools to provide deep insights into system health and performance, and proactively predict and mitigate potential issues.
- Mentor and guide Infrastructure Engineers by providing technical expertise, constructive feedback, coaching, and support to foster their professional development and drive excellence in cloud operations.
About You:
- A strong passion for improving people鈥檚 lives through access to better information about their DNA
- Minimum of 5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in cloud architecture, deployment, and operations, demonstrating increasing technical leadership and strategic impact.
- 5+ years of significant software development experience in one of the following: Go, Python, or a similar language, with a proven track record of designing and implementing complex cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- 5+ years of in-depth experience in cloud computing, with at least 5 years of demonstrable expert-level experience with a broad range of AWS services and a deep understanding of cloud architectural patterns.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, demonstrating ownership, providing leadership during incidents, and driving root cause analysis and preventative measures.
- Expert-level sysadmin skills in a Linux environment, including mastery of Bash and other scripting languages for advanced automation, diagnostics, and performance tuning.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks 鈥� e.g., Terraform and CDK 鈥� at scale, including defining best practices and standards.
- A strong affinity for and proven ability to champion an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and continuous delivery practices across teams.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including executive stakeholders.
- Experience integrating and utilizing AI-powered tools for proactive observability, cost optimization, and code analysis to improve cloud operations and development.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend new AI tools to enhance cloud operations and development workflows.
Pluses:
- Direct experience with CircleCi, Rollbar and Pagerduty
- Familiarity with full-stack development
- Familiarity with regulated software systems and entities
- AWS or other cloud certifications
- Multi Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- BS+ in Computer Science; coursework in genetics or bioinformatics
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For more information or to make an accommodation request reach out to [email protected].听
Expected Interview Process:
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Manager Screen/Tech Screen 3) 翱苍蝉颈迟别听 4) 翱蹿蹿别谤听
Expected Pay For This Role:
There are 2 distinct parts to your Helix offer: 1) Base Salary聽 2) Annual Bonus聽
Expected Helix Annual Base: $1,148,000 - $1,546,250 MXN Annually
Expected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 5 % of your annual salary
The salary range above is our reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role across your region. Actual starting pay will be based on non-discriminatory job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about your specific work location salary range during the hiring process.听
Aside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits through our employer of record.
Office Location:
Our office is located at the WeWork - Varsovia, Mexico City聽
- For those who live in CDMX- We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skillshare sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities.
What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:
We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.听
What To Expect During Your First 90 days:
First 30 days:聽 you鈥檒l spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders. You鈥檒l also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.听聽
Day 30 - 60: you鈥檒l spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix鈥檚 products, services and capabilities.听
Day 60 - 90: you鈥檒l build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.听
Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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