Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Labcorp

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer Location: Remote, United States Location Note: Applicants who live within 35 miles of either the Burlington, NC or Durham, NC location will follow a hybrid schedule. This schedule includes a minimum of three in-office days per week at an assigned location, either Burlington or Durham, supporting both collaboration and flexibility. All other locations are remote-eligible. Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae) is dedicated to bringing comprehensive genetic information to mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to design, automate, and operate our next-generation cloud infrastructure (AWS & on-prem). You’ll create unified, secure, and self-service platforms to empower developers and scale with the business. This is a hands-on technical role. Our team prides themselves on efficiency, industry leading standards, radically honest communication, humility, transparency, and trust. Join us today!

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities, including 3+ years with AWS at scale.
• A self-starter able with the ability to work independently.
• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform, including a deep knowledge of state file internals, provider architecture, execution DAGs, and the implementation details of Terraform’s core engine.
• A detailed understanding of AWS services and principles.
• Strong scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience with GitOps, CI/CD (Github Actions), Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid or datacenter environments (LDAP, networking, access control, monitoring).
• A passion for lifelong learning, always pushing yourself, your teammates, and our systems to be the best they can be.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Azure, GCP, Okta, and Cloud Native tools (Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus)
• Experience with database administration, performance improvement, query optimization, etc., preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience with compliance and risk management methodologies, frameworks, and principles (e.g. HIPAA, SOX, NIST, CSA, ITIL, etc.)
• A systems-thinking mindset — connecting security, reliability, and efficiency.
• A bias for automation and elimination of manual toil.
• The ability to bridge operational and developer teams through clear communication and mentorship.
• A pragmatic design approach: building processes that scale without over-engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own operations across multi-account architectures (via AWS Organizations, Identity Center with ABAC, and SCPs) ensuring security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain self-service Terraform modules, pipelines, and automation for provisioning resources and bootstrapping applications, championing reproducible infrastructure through CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Automate relentlessly, define best practices, and work across engineering teams to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
• Collaborate to improve resilience, scaling, and performance.
• Implement and monitor security controls in partnership with InfoSec.
• Mentor engineers across platform and application teams, advocating for best practices and driving standardization, automation, and operational excellence.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex operational incidents and post-mortem analysis.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and perform additional duties, as assigned.

Benefits

• Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Casual, PRN & Part Time employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan only.
• Employees who are regularly scheduled to work a 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed