DevOps Engineer

The scientists and engineers building our MRD cancer detection platform move fast. The infrastructure they rely on needs to be faster, more reliable, and ready for the scrutiny of a regulated clinical environment. At Foresight Diagnostics - now part of Natera - we’re looking for a Dev Ops Engineer who can build and own the delivery systems that let our teams ship with confidence.

If you want your infrastructure work to directly enable earlier cancer detection for real patients, this is the role.

Foresight Diagnostics is a molecular diagnostics company pioneering non-invasive cancer detection through highly sensitive, cell-free DNA-based liquid biopsy technologies. Our proprietary methods - originally developed at Stanford University - are designed to detect smaller tumors earlier and enable more personalized treatment strategies for patients with cancer.

We sit at the intersection of molecular biology, bioinformatics, and next-generation sequencing (NGS), and we translate rigorous science into clinically meaningful solutions. Following our acquisition by Natera, we now combine the agility of a mission‑driven startup with the scale and resources of a global leader in cell-free DNA testing. It’s an exciting moment to join us.

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, our team operates in a high accountability, collaborative environment where quality and continuous improvement aren’t just values - they’re how we work every day.

Our bioinformatics pipelines, software systems, and diagnostic infrastructure are growing in complexity and scale. Development teams need fast, reliable, secure delivery workflows. Bioinformatics scientists need reproducible, well-governed compute environments. And as a regulated clinical diagnostics company, we need it to be auditable and compliant.

This is a greenfield opportunity to shape how software gets built and deployed at Foresight Dx - designing CI/CD architecture, driving automation across GCP and AWS, and becoming the infrastructure partner our engineering and science teams depend on.

You’ll work primarily with Git Hub Actions, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes across GCP and AWS environments - collaborating day-to-day with software engineers, bioinformatics scientists, and operations teams. In practice, this means:

• Designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions to automate builds, testing, and deployment across development and production environments.
• Implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform to support repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable infrastructure deployments.
• Automating deployment and configuration of applications, bioinformatics pipelines, and supporting services across both GCP and AWS.
• Building and maintaining automation scripts in Python and Shell/Bash to reduce manual operations, improve deployment reliability, and increase developer velocity.
• Managing containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run, and AWS container services.
• Configuring and maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to provide full visibility into application and pipeline health.
• Implementing security controls across CI/CD pipelines - including secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability scanning - with a regulated‑environment mindset.
• Managing configuration management for application environments and bioinformatics workstations.
• Creating clear, comprehensive documentation for deployment processes, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides that support regulatory compliance requirements.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to reduce deployment friction, improve build times, and make developers more productive.
• Mentoring and providing technical guidance to development teams on Dev Ops best practices, cloud‑native patterns, and tooling.

Required

• 5-10 years of experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, or software engineering with a strong automation focus.
• Proven expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - Git Hub Actions experience strongly preferred;
  Git Lab CI or Jenkins also relevant.
• Strong hands‑on…