QA Platform Engineer

The role

The QA Platform Engineer will work on the Platforms team to develop and improve DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms. This role involves building compliance pipelines, gathering application quality metrics, and providing QA services on a project basis.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously improve DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms
• Develop and maintain common tools and libraries
• Evaluate new technologies and practices
• Help NCBI developers with adoption platforms, tools, architectural patterns and best practices
• Ensure compliance with Federal application security regulations and standards via automated solutions and compliance pipelines
• Practice Agile development and continuous improvement
• Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates
• Continuously automatically gather metrics for application quality
• Provide QA services on a project basis

Required qualifications

• Proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java
• Strong coding skills in at least one programing language
• Adequate level of Linux command-line skills
• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering

Nice to have

• Sysadmin-level skills
• Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks
• Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture
• OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty
• Service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd
• Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• paid holidays
• vacation
• tuition reimbursement

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) supports work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access to biomedical literature and genomic data over the web.