About the position
Join Woodwell’s Information Systems team as a Cloud Computing Analyst to manage public cloud resources for the center. The successful candidate will work closely with research and non-research staff to optimize cloud storage, compute environments, software, and scientific data and modeling processing workflows. The ideal candidate will have passions for cloud computing, coding and climate solutions.
Responsibilities
• Work with staff to analyze, optimize and manage cloud computing environments, including GCP, AWS and Azure
• Work with research staff to streamline scientific computing workflows within cloud environments
• Work with the IS team to optimize cloud security utilizing least privilege access principle
• Manage and optimize cloud billing and resource usage
• Develop and manage scalable architecture to support applications and infrastructure as a service (IAAS)
• Identify cloud technology gaps/risks and establish mitigation strategies.
• Write guides and provide training on cloud platform usage, cloud management tools and best practices
• Remain up to date with cutting-edge cloud technologies, methods and proactively work to implement them
Requirements
• Administration experience with Google Cloud Platform or other major IaaS provider is required
• Strong track record of implementing cloud-based processing techniques
• A passion for coding and data science including knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, R, and C++ are preferred)
• Experience handling large volumes of spatiotemporal data
• Proven deep technical background including cloudbased CPU and GPU optimization
• Ability to work in a demanding environment with minimal supervision
• Familiarity with database usage and basic administration tasks (SQL preferred)
• Proven track record in architecting and managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments, leveraging Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and optimizing large-scale data workflows within BigQuery
• Ability to design informative and accessible technical training materials
• 2+ years of hands on professional experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or other quantitative fields.
Benefits
• Woodwell offers a generous benefits package and work life balance.