Remote Bioinformatics Pipeline Engineer (Nextflow/AWS)

n2 Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company contribution

Health, dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Generous paid time off

Job summary

BioTeam, part of n² Group, is hiring a Bioinformatics Consultant to migrate pipelines to Nextflow and build scalable AWS infrastructure for cloud-based bioinformatics workflows. You will work in a remote, US-based environment on regulated clinical projects, contributing to validation reports and documenting changes.

You’ll join a collaborative team supporting clients across life sciences, with opportunities to grow technical skills in HPC, cloud-native architectures and modern pipeline design.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science or a related field.
• Familiarity with bioinformatics workflow management systems such as Nextflow or WDL.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services (such as EC2, S3, EBS, EFS and IAM) or Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to clinical or regulated bioinformatics environments.
• The ability to work effectively within a collaborative, distributed team and support clients across a variety of industries.
• Experience preparing validation or benchmarking reports.
• Familiarity with Linux/HPC environments and cluster-based computing.
• Exposure to high‑performance or network‑attached storage systems such as Isilon, VAST, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing bioinformatics pipelines to Nextflow, including pipeline configurations, executables and input/output (I/O) paths.
• Build and configure AWS cloud infrastructure to support pipeline execution, including services such as HealthOmics.
• Refactor tightly coupled pipeline components using standard configuration formats such as JSON and YAML, improving portability and maintainability.
• Plan and execute comparative validation runs, contributing to benchmarking reports and validation documentation.
• Develop tests to support ongoing pipeline validation and quality assurance.
• Support the development of monitoring and scheduling applications for cloud‑based pipelines.
• Maintain clear documentation of pipeline changes, configurations and operational procedures.

Skills

Python

Bash scripting

AWS cloud

Clinical bioinformatics

Team collaboration

Validation reports

Linux HPC

Isilon/VAST storage

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Bioinformatics

Tools

Nextflow

WDL

Terraform

CloudFormation

EC2/S3

Job description

BioTeam, part of n² Group, is hiring a Bioinformatics Consultant to migrate pipelines to Nextflow and build scalable AWS infrastructure for cloud-based bioinformatics workflows. You will work in a remote, US-based environment on regulated clinical projects, contributing to validation reports and documenting changes.

You’ll join a collaborative team supporting clients across life sciences, with opportunities to grow technical skills in HPC, cloud-native architectures and modern pipeline design.