Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps)

The role

The Senior Platform Engineer will develop and continuously improve a DataOps platform. This role involves maintaining common tools and libraries and helping NCBI developers adopt the platform.

What you will do

• Develops and continuously improves DataOps platform.
• Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.
• Evaluates new technologies and practices.
• Helps NCBI developers with adoption of platform.
• Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.
• Embraces agile development and continuous improvement.
• Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience is the field
• Strong coding skills in at least one programing language (Python, C++, ...)
• Kubernetes, containerization
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
• Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub or equivalent
• Apache AirFlow or equivalent
• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
• 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

• Google Anthos
• 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, or equivalent
• 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

Benefits

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

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps) to support work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).