Cloud Bioinformatics Platform Engineer for NGS Workflows

Eli Lilly and Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 66,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

401(k) plan

Health, dental, vision benefits

Well-being programs

Job summary

Eli Lilly and Company is seeking a Bioinformatics Platform Engineer to join our Bioinformatics and Cloud Platform team in San Francisco. The role focuses on operating, improving, and scaling scientific computing infrastructure powering production bioinformatics workflows in AWS.

You will work across bioinformatics, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, helping scientists run complex NGS workflows reliably and at scale, while collaborating with scientists and engineers to evolve

Qualifications

• MS in Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
• 3 years of experience working in pharma, biotech, or life sciences.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis (no visa sponsorship).

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve our cloud platform that runs production NGS and bioinformatics workflows.
• Support and troubleshoot scientific workflow pipelines (Nextflow preferred).
• Operate and debug Linux-based production environments.
• Investigate and resolve complex issues across the entire platform stack, including workflow orchestration, cloud compute and storage, networking and security, IAM, and application services.
• Partner with scientists to translate workflow needs into scalable, secure platform solutions.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and platform reliability improvements.
• Integrate and operate multiple research and enterprise platforms.
• Apply cloud security and operational best practices.
• Participate in technical roadmap discussions and platform architecture decisions.

Skills

Bioinformatics

Cloud platforms

Linux

Education

MS in Science/Engineering/Bioinformatics/Computational Biology

Tools

Nextflow

Snakemake

Terraform

Chef

CloudFormation

Job description

Eli Lilly and Company is seeking a Bioinformatics Platform Engineer to join our Bioinformatics and Cloud Platform team in San Francisco. The role focuses on operating, improving, and scaling scientific computing infrastructure powering production bioinformatics workflows in AWS.

You will work across bioinformatics, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, helping scientists run complex NGS workflows reliably and at scale, while collaborating with scientists and engineers to evolve