Cloud Platform Architect (Tech Lead)

TetraScience; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Unlimited PTO

Flexible remote-first work arrangements

Company-paid Life Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

TetraScience is seeking a DevOps Lead in Boston to own the cloud infrastructure and deployment automation for their multi-tenant SaaS platform serving biopharma customers. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with Terraform and AWS, along with a proven record in CI/CD systems.

This role emphasizes infrastructure as code and requires a solid understanding of cloud engineering practices to ensure the platform's release velocity and compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep, daily-driver Terraform experience.
• Strong production AWS experience, including EKS, ECS, and VPC.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and deployment automation.
• Design, build, and maintain all cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Python

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Kubernetes

Job description

About TetraScience

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Company building Tetra OS, the operating system for scientific intelligence. We help the world’s leading life sciences firms turn fragmented scientific data into AI-native assets and scientific workflows that accelerate discovery, development, and manufacturing. TetraScience’s growing ecosystem of strategic partners includes NVIDIA, Databricks, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Snowflake, Google, and Microsoft.

In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review authored "The Tetra Way" by our CEO, Patrick Grady; it is impossible to overstate the importance of this document, and you should take it literally as you decide whether our mission, culture, and expectations are right for you.

As DevOps Lead you will own the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and deployment automation for TetraScience’s multi‑tenant SaaS platform serving global biopharma customers. This is a hands‑on technical lead role, not a people manager title. You will write IaC daily, architect deployment pipelines, and drive the engineering practices that determine how fast and safely we ship software.

What you’ll Own

Infrastructure as Code

Design, build, and maintain all cloud infrastructure using Terraform (primary) across AWS and Azure. Every environment, from sandbox to production, is provisioned and governed through code. You treat infrastructure PRs with the same rigor as application PRs: peer review, automated validation, drift detection, state management.

CI/CD Architecture

Own the build, test, and deployment pipeline infrastructure end to end. GitHub Actions, container image pipelines, artifact registries, pre‑merge integration environments, promotion gates, and automated rollback. Your goal: engineers merge code and it reaches production safely without manual intervention.

Cloud Engineering

Deep, hands‑on AWS work: EKS/ECS, VPC architecture, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, and networking. Azure fluency for customer‑facing deployments. You understand Well‑Architected Framework principles and apply them daily, not as a checklist exercise.

DevSecOps

Embed security into the pipeline: container image scanning, SAST/DAST integration, secrets management, least‑privilege IAM, and compliance‑as‑code. You work in a GxP‑regulated environment where auditability and traceability of deployments are non‑negotiable.

Release Velocity

Partner with engineering teams to reduce cycle time from commit to production. Instrument pipeline metrics (build time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR). Identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Build self‑service capabilities so product teams are not blocked by infrastructure.

Observability and Reliability

Production monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, and incident response infrastructure. Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent. On‑call participation and blameless postmortem culture.

Why This Role Matters

TetraScience is building the data and AI platform for drug development. Our customers are global pharma companies running regulated scientific workloads. The infrastructure you build determines whether we ship features weekly or monthly, whether customer environments are secure and compliant by default, and whether the platform scales from tens to hundreds of enterprise deployments. Release velocity is a company‑level strategic priority, and this role is at the center of it.

• 7+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
• Deep, daily-driver Terraform experience: modules, workspaces, state backends, provider configuration, CI‑driven plan/apply workflows. This is the core technical screen.
• Strong production AWS experience: compute (EKS, ECS, EC2), networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, ALB/NLB, Route53), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), security (IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty)
• Designed and built CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (not just consumed existing pipelines). GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins at scale.
• Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Helm charts, service mesh concepts
• Scripting and automation: Python, Bash, or Go for tooling and glue code
• Git-based workflows, branch strategies, and pull‑request‑driven infrastructure changes
• Experience operating in a regulated or compliance‑sensitive environment (GxP, SOC2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or similar)

Strong Preferences

• Multi‑cloud IaC experience (AWS + Azure). Bonus for GCP.
• Managed database services: Aurora, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, or Databricks infrastructure provisioning
• Big data infrastructure: Spark clusters, data lake storage architectures, ETL pipeline infrastructure
• Cost optimization: resource tagging strategies, FinOps practices, reserved/spot instance management
• Policy‑as‑code: OPA/Rego, Sentinel, or AWS SCPs for governance at scale

Current Tech Stack

• Cloud - AWS (primary), Azure (customer deployments)
• IaC - Terraform, CloudFormation (legacy stacks)
• CI/CD - GitHub Actions
• Containers - Docker, ECS, EKS
• Observability - Datadog
• Languages - Python, Bash
• Data - PostgresSQL/Aurora, S3 data lake, Databricks (Lakehouse)

What We Are Not Looking For

To save everyone’s time: this role is not traditional IT operations. If your background is primarily in manual server provisioning, ticketing‑system‑driven change management, desktop support, or on‑prem datacenter administration, this is not the right fit. We need someone whose default mode is writing code to solve infrastructure problems.

• Competitive compensation with equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible remote‑first work arrangements
• Company‑paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD
• 401(k)