Black Canyon Consulting LLC ยท 2 months ago
Senior Platform DevEx Engineer (DevOps)
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Platform DevEx/DevOps Engineer to support their work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The role involves building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and maintain software and web services used globally.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyProject Management
Responsibilities
As an Senior Platform DevEx engineer, you'll be a part of a highly experienced cross-functional team of around 20, building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and maintain software and web services that are used around the world
You should be prepared to work on:
GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications, in many languages, from C++ to Scala, Kotlin, and Python
Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more
Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams
Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more
Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence
Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform
Qualification
Required
7+ years of direct experience
Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses Python, C++, JavaScript/Typescript, some Kotlin & Scala, and small amounts of Golang and Rust
A working knowledge of Linux systems and the command line
Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, package publishing, and containerization
Preferred
Experience developing CLI applications
Experience building and deploying web APIs to cloud services or Kubernetes
Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad, and Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift Container Platform, Anthos, GKE, AKS, EKS, etc
Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, the EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana) or TIGK (Telegraph InfluxDB, Grafana, Kapacitor) stacks, DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, or OpsGenie
Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Experience building high availability applications
Experience configuring multi-tenent Kubernetes clusters
Familiarity with Service Mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
Familiarity with event bus technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis, etc
Familiarity with data processing and distributed computing tools like Apache Spark or Airflow
Familiarity with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault, Azure KeyVault, Google Secret Manager, etc
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
401k plan with employer contribution
Paid holidays
Vacation
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services.
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