Platform Engineering Manager

The role

The Platform Engineering Manager will lead a platform team at NCBI. The team develops and improves DevSecOps, DataOps, AIOps, and Observability platforms.

What you will do

• Manage a platform team
• Develop and continuously improve DevSecOps, DataOps, AIOps and Observability platform
• Develop and maintain common tools and libraries
• Evaluate new technologies and practices
• Help NCBI developers with adoption of platform
• Ensure compliance with Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines
• Embrace agile development and continuous improvement
• Encourage growth mindset and offer leadership opportunities at any level

Required qualifications

• Project and Product management skills
• Agile process skills
• Coding skills in at least one programing language
• Kubernetes, containerization
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
• At least some understanding of Linux and networking
• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Computer Systems Engineering

Nice to have

• Docker
• GitOps tools: ArgoCD or equivalent
• Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform or equivalent
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
• Modern observability and logging tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk,
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent
• Data transfer tools: AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent
• Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• Service mesh
• Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture

Benefits

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

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Platform Engineering Manager to support work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health.