Labcorp Genetics is dedicated to bringing comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Our team is driven to make a difference for the patients we serve. We are leading the transformation of the genetics industry, by making genetic testing affordable and accessible for everyone to guide health decisions across all stages of life.

The Engineering Operations team owns the strategy for provisioning, handling, maintaining, securing, and advocating for Labcorp's public cloud infrastructure. We work daily among ourselves and by partnering with multi-functional teams to improve and enhance our growing footprint, as well as creating tooling for developer interactions, to ensure we are leveraging the cloud as effectively and efficiently as possible. This is a hands-on role. We pride ourselves on efficiency, using industry leading standards, radically honest communication, humility, transparency, and trust. Join us today!

As a Sr Cloud Operations Engineer, you will:

• Work with emerging cloud technologies, taking advantage of a growing set of cloud services to assist the business in running critically important applications, and contribute to our mission of bringing genetics to mainstream medicine for billions of people.

• Build and modernize a distributed, fault-tolerant, reliable, and reproducible cloud infrastructure according to best-practices by working with Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and other cloud-native tools, while striving to automate yourself out of a job.

• With a customer service approach, act as domain specialist and provide mentorship to and partner with multi-functional teams around all aspects of the cloud, including but not limited to: systems architecture, networking, security, identity and access management (IAM), data retention, backups / disaster recovery, and secrets management.

• Evangelize and assist with standardization across our entire cloud footprint, helping champion our “paved path” for application deployment and system design.

• Support and manage our on-prem HPC cluster that runs our DNA sequencing pipelines

• Provide PR review and architectural design guidance for developer-contributed Terraform PRs in our centralized Terraform monorepo.

• Respond to tickets in our service desk to provide operational assistance for customer requests, with the goal of removing toil and streamlining the process with automation, allowing the team to focus on more project work and fewer request-based tasks.

• Assist in integrating cloud environments and systems from mergers and acquisitions from other AWS accounts or other public clouds.

• Act as a point of escalation for the other members of the team, providing assistance and training where necessary.

• Participate in an on-call rotation and perform additional duties, as assigned.

We look for employees who:

• Typically have 8+ years of relevant work experience or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities

• Are self-starters and can work towards a larger goal with minimal guidance

• Have strong written and verbal communication skills in English

• Have an extensive understanding of AWS applications and principles

• Are experts in Terraform, performing complex operations like writing and overhauling modules, combining states, and understanding the complexities of Terraform and other HashiCorp tools like Vault and Consul

• Have experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and Rancher

• Have worked with various software supply chain systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and TravisCI

• Are passionate lifelong learners, always pushing themselves, their teammates, and their systems to be the best they can be

• Have proven analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills with a track record in gathering, detailing, and surpassing business requirements

• Have a deep understanding of at least one programming language

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Azure, GCP, Okta, and Cloud Native tools (Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus)

• Experience designing and architecting various software systems

• Proven experience migrating environments between AWS accounts or various public clouds

• 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.)

Application Window: 5/23/2025

Pay Range: $160,000 - $210,000

All job offers will be based on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data.

LBP / Equity Eligible Positions: The position is also eligible for an annual bonus under the Labcorp Bonus Plan. Bonuses are payable based on corporate and/or business segment performance and are subject to individual performance modifiers. Compensation may also include discretionary short- and long-term incentive packages.

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. For more detailed information, please click here.