Technical Solutions Architect

Seqera

1d • Remote

About The Position

Seqera is seeking a Technical Solutions Architect to join their Professional Services team. This role involves onboarding clients to the Seqera Platform (Cloud and Enterprise), ensuring successful deployment within client-specific security and compliance frameworks. The Technical Solutions Architect will act as a technical generalist with specialized areas, deploying cloud infrastructure, building repeatable tools, and collaborating with clients to understand their needs. The position requires a blend of technical expertise, client-facing skills, and the ability to work across various environments and with diverse teams. This role is crucial for making Seqera's platform operational in client production environments and improving future deployments. The ideal candidate will be a steady technical presence, capable of answering questions, handling ambiguity, and ensuring client trust through accurate information and follow-through. They will work with scientists, bioinformaticians, IT, and DevOps teams, translating complex technical concepts into understandable terms and driving fast-moving ideas into robust implementations.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP; multi-cloud expertise is a plus.
• Confidence in networking, TLS and certificate management (public and private), IAM, and access control.
• Ability to work within client security and compliance constraints and explain technical concepts to non-experts.
• Proficiency with Terraform; familiarity with other IaC tools (CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) is a bonus.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Helm is a strong plus.
• Experience building and shipping tools that others depend on, with structured and commented code.
• Comfort in Python and Bash.
• Understanding of how a workflow engine runs against remote compute, storage, and container runtimes.
• Client-facing skills including technical onboarding, pre-sales, requirement elicitation, navigating ambiguity, and credibility with scientists and DevOps engineers.
• Self-sufficiency in researching and solving unfamiliar problems.
• Ability to share knowledge effectively to improve team performance.
• Motivation to work harder and dig deeper when facing difficult challenges.
• Skill in finding common ground and shaping collaborative paths forward when disagreements arise.

Nice To Haves

• Life sciences, bioinformatics, or scientific computing background.
• Technical pre-sales experience.
• Nextflow experience.
• Startup experience.
• Exposure to HPC schedulers such as SLURM or Grid Engine.
• AI fluency and judgment to direct AI tools effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead client implementations across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, from requirements to a working Seqera Platform deployment.
• Deploy the environment the Platform runs in and the compute it dispatches to, including networking, DNS, TLS, private CAs, IAM and secrets, container runtimes, and storage.
• Deliver solutions within client constraints, guiding the client's IT through changes while respecting their security and compliance posture.
• Build tools that make deployment repeatable and safe for non-experts, including pre-flight checks, clear failure reporting, tests, and documentation.
• Partner with Sales and Scientific Development to shape solutions and run proof-of-concept deployments.
• Act as a senior escalation point, turning recurring client problems into lasting fixes alongside internal teams.

Benefits

• 20 days of vacation per year
• 3 additional days off in December
• National/public holidays according to location
• Equity
• Private health insurance with United Healthcare
• Dental coverage with Delta
• 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 of 1,000 USD per year

What This Job Offers

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