About the role

What will you do at Cadence?

Over the last eight years, OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences has developed the field’s most advanced large-scale compute platform, Orion, built on Amazon Web Services. In this position, you will be working at the cutting edge of cloud computing, C++/Python development, and advanced MD simulation techniques. Your work will have the potential to make a major impact in drug discovery, and will be available to many pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences – a division of Cadence Design Systems – is an industry leader in computational molecular design through rapid, robust, and scalable software, consulting services, and Orion®, the only cloud-native fully integrated software-as-a-service molecular modeling platform.

Combining unlimited computation and storage with powerful tools for data sharing, visualization and analysis in a customizable development platform, Orion offers unprecedented capabilities for the advancement of pharmaceuticals, biologics, agrochemicals, and flavors and fragrances.

Join our growing Cloud team responsible for deployment and management of our cloud-native SaaS platform for computer-aided drug design, Orion. Tasks include managing

individual installations of Orion, assisting internal developers with AWS issues, handling service desk requests. Additionally, you will participate in a rotating on-call schedule, serving as the primary point of contact for service desk requests by triaging, resolving, or escalating issues within established service levels.

In addition to collaborating with our backend, infrastructure, frontend, and scientific support teams, you will interact with fortune 500 companies leveraging Orion for their scientific needs to create an outstanding support experience.

What you should have:

1+ year of relevant experience

Proactive, go-getter mentality and a positive attitude

Strong organizational and problem-solving capacity

Customer service skills

Familiarity with scripting (Bash)

Experience with Linux system administration

The following are a PLUS, but not required:

Experience with Amazon Web Services

Experience with CI/CD frameworks

Familiarity with programming languages (Python)

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

Which skills does this role require?

Bash ScriptingLinux System AdministrationCustomer ServiceProblem SolvingCloud OperationsCloud ComputingAWSC++MD SimulationSaaSMolecular ModelingDrug DiscoveryLinuxBashOrionComputational Molecular DesignSystem Administration

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