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 t o 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!

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 Info Sec.

• 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.

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 Git Ops, 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.)

• What You'll Bring

• 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.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Application window closes: 2/23/2026
Pay Range: $160,000.00- $210,000.00 annual salary
Schedule/Shift: M-F, 8-5pm
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. 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. 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. For more detailed information, please click here
Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Labcorp strives for inclusion and belonging in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications and merit of the individual. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.

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