[Hiring] Technical Solutions Architect @Seqera

Role Description

Seqera builds the modern biotech stack. Nextflow orchestrates the pipelines, Seqera Platform runs and governs them at scale, and a growing set of AI tools speeds up the work around them. Tens of thousands of bioinformaticians already build on Nextflow, and the world's leading pharma and biotech teams run production science on the Platform.

You will join Professional Services, the team that owns a client's path from first deployment to running science in production. You will onboard clients to Seqera Platform (Cloud and Enterprise), and make things work within each client's own security and compliance posture.

You are a technical generalist with areas of specialization. You will deploy cloud infrastructure, build the tools that make it repeatable, and sit across the table from a client to work out what they actually need. One week you are deep in a client's network and certificate setup, the next you are automating a deployment or drawing a real requirement out of a half-formed one. If that range sounds energizing rather than daunting, the role fits: every part of it is core, and we will expect you to work across all of it and keep sharpening the areas you know least.

What You'll Do

• Technical onboarding: Lead client implementations across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, from requirements to a working Seqera Platform deployment.
• Infrastructure deployment: Stand up the environment the Platform runs in and the compute it dispatches to, including networking, DNS, TLS, private CAs, IAM and secrets, container runtimes, and the storage that pipelines depend on.
• Working within client constraints: Deliver whether you have full account access or almost none, guiding the client's own IT through each change while respecting their security and compliance posture.
• Tooling and automation: Build the tools that make deployment repeatable and safe for non-experts. Give them pre-flight checks, clear failures, tests, and documentation so they keep working long after handover.
• Pre-sales and proof of concept: Partner with Sales and Scientific Development to shape solutions and run proof-of-concept deployments.
• Escalation and pattern-spotting: Act as a senior escalation point, turning recurring client problems into lasting fixes alongside internal teams.

Qualifications

• Cloud depth: Strong in at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP; multi-cloud expertise is a real advantage.
• Networking and security: Confident across networking, TLS and certificate management, IAM, and access control.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform is a must; familiarity with other IaC (CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) is a bonus.
• Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes are expected; Helm is a strong plus.
• Building, not just scripting: Comfortable in Python and Bash; treats tests, scanning, and documentation as part of shipping.
• Workflow fluency: Understand how a workflow engine runs against remote compute, storage, and container runtimes.
• Client-facing instinct: Can run technical onboarding and pre-sales, elicit real requirements, and navigate ambiguity.
• Self-sufficient, and a natural sharer: Researches own way out of unfamiliar problems and explains learnings to the team.
• Grit in the face of adversity: Motivated to work harder and find the right answer when things are difficult.
• Bringing people together: Looks past surface-level differences to find shared goals and shape a path forward.

Nice to have

• Life sciences, bioinformatics, or scientific computing background.
• Technical pre-sales experience.
• Nextflow experience.
• Startup experience.

Benefits

• Time off: 20 days for vacations per year, 3 days given by Seqera in December, and national/public holidays according to your location.
• Equity.
• Private health insurance with United Healthcare, dental with Delta, and vision coverage from Vision Service Plan.
• Private life insurance with Lincoln.
• Investment app with Vestwell (401K).
• Home office equipment (valued over 1,000 USD).
• Subscription to Oliva, Mental Health App.
• Learning and development budget per year (1,000 USD).

How to apply

Include a link to a public code repository, plus a short narrative (a few paragraphs) that tells us:

• What the repository shows about your ability,
• How it shows your growth over time,
• How you have used AI to accelerate your work without handing over your judgment.

We read the repository and the narrative closely. We won't review an application that is missing either one.