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Location
Cambridge, MA
Ref #
41383
Job Family
Research
Date published
22-Nov-2024
Time Type
Full time

Description & Requirements

Here at the DSP, we play a pivotal role in flagship scientific efforts across the NIH, and we collaborate with world-leading technology corporations, philanthropic organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. Together, these activities make us a leading organization at the intersection of the life and data sciences.


Our Devops team fills a variety of roles. We are platform engineers, writing code to automate deployments, CD pipelines, and the management of test and production infrastructure. We are in-house experts in technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Google Cloud. We establish best practices for product engineering teams in areas like CI/CD and monitoring. We collaborate with
DSP’s application security and compliance teams to maintain a FedRAMP-compliant production environment. Finally, we serve as consultants, embedding in cross-functional teams for exploratory or proof-of-concept projects.


Responsibilities
As an experienced engineer and member of the Devops team, you will:
● Contribute to our internal deployment and operations platform, written in Golang, Typescript, and React
● Establish reusable patterns and modules in Helm, Terraform and GitHub actions that can be leveraged by product engineering teams
● Maintain dev, test, and production environments, as well as shared tooling such as ArgoCD and Prometheus
● Improve continuous delivery processes, using DORA metrics as a guiding principle
● Serve as an in-house expert in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, providing PR reviews to product engineers upon request
● Optimize infrastructure for operational and cost efficiency
● Assist product engineering teams with long-term projects on an as-needed basis
● Be a role model and mentor for other Devops engineers
● Collaborate with product engineers throughout the organization


Requirements
● BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Bioinformatics or relevant education
8+ years of experience in software engineering roles, with 3+ specializing in Devops, SRE, or Infrastructure
● Expertise in at least one public cloud platform (bonus if Google Cloud) with hands-on experience in infrastructure management and automation
● Strong software engineering fundamentals, including significant programming experience in a modern language such as Go or Python
● Experience with Kubernetes and containers


● Experience with common web application architectures and technologies (load balancers, relational databases, etc)
● Experience with common monitoring tools and knowledge of observability best practices
● Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems
● Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
● A pragmatic and collaborative approach to solving technical problems