Job Description

Roles: 

The Junior DevOps Engineer will be part of an agile development team, focusing on building our next generation scientific platform. Right away you will be at the forefront of developing ground breaking capabilities. We are looking for someone with a strong engineering background and the ability to develop and support end-to-end environments and CI/CD pipelines for user interface to backend services. The role requires working collaboratively across the Technology, Product and Commercial organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals. In this role, you will build positive relationships with multi-functional team members and business customers and serve to educate the organization about DevOps standard methodologies. 

Responsibilities

• Participate in building Cloud, and on prem environments for maximum performance, reliability and scalability. Stay up to date with new technologies and resolve how to incorporate these into future platform capabilities.
• Build positive relationships with multi-functional team members and business customers. Share business and technical takeaways with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences. Participate in code reviews, architectural decision, write unit tests, and conduct fixing to ensure up-time for live systems.

Basic qualifications 

• 1-2 years’ experience in a DevOps and related technologies. Hands-on experience operating environments for development teams and production systems. Knowledge of web application security standard processes and ability to act as a liaison between Security and software development teams.
• 1-2 years' experience with deployment, integration, test/validation, and configuration custom software across multiple platform environments. Deep understanding of DevOps CI/CD pipeline concepts and experience working and mentoring developers on concepts including GitOps. Responsible for Background configuring monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Grafana. Strong practical administration skills in Public Cloud environments - AWS preferred, Azure and GCP experience is a plus.
• having validated background in Docker, Linux, and automation scripting in one or more of the following languages/tools: Bash, Python (AWS CDK, boto, etc.), Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, JFrog, Service Mesh, Nginx Ingress.
• Able to design, test, integrate and be responsible for deployment of auto provisioning and de-provisioning in resilient and highly available environments based on user load. Experience supporting system outage triage and fixing.

Preferred qualifications 

• Life Science and/or Bioinformatics experience preferred, but not required.
• Improve utilization of cloud services like S3, Glacier and others as appropriate.