Remote Cloud Engineer — GCP, Terraform & Life Sciences Infra

MetaCell, LLC; Washington; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MetaCell is seeking a full-time Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Google Cloud infrastructure for scientific research platforms. The role emphasizes deep GCP and Terraform experience, strong security practices, and a software engineering background, with responsibilities across IAM, networking, and CI/CD pipelines.

Remote role with occasional travel to meetings in the US/UK/Italy; work during PST overlap is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying and operating cloud-based infrastructure with clear technical documentation skills (architecture diagrams, runbooks).
• Deep GCP experience and fundamentals: IAM, service accounts, org/folder/project hierarchy, VPC networking, GCS, BigQuery administration, Airflow, the Batch API and Cloud Run.
• Container orchestration & CI/CD: Kubernetes, GKE, and GitHub Actions or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure Google Cloud infrastructure for scientific research platforms.
• Own CI/CD pipelines that promote changes from Dev/QA to production.
• Manage IAM, networking, VPC perimeters and organization policies with least privilege.
• Run data and compute workloads (BigQuery, Airflow, Batch, Cloud Run) and containerized environments.
• Monitor security and platform health, respond to incidents and contribute to runbooks.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Security mindset

Proactive problem solving

Strong documentation skills

Remote work with PST overlap

Education

BSc / MSc in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Docker

Python

Airflow

BigQuery

Cloud Run

GCS

Vertex AI Workbench

CloudHarness

Job description

MetaCell is seeking a full-time Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Google Cloud infrastructure for scientific research platforms. The role emphasizes deep GCP and Terraform experience, strong security practices, and a software engineering background, with responsibilities across IAM, networking, and CI/CD pipelines.

Remote role with occasional travel to meetings in the US/UK/Italy; work during PST overlap is expected.