Saphetor · 1 month ago
DevOps Team Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expSaphetor is a Switzerland-based precision medicine company specializing in human genetics and bioinformatics. They are seeking an experienced DevOps Team Lead to guide and mentor their DevOps team while overseeing the design, implementation, and management of their infrastructure, ensuring operational excellence and scalability.
BiotechnologyElectronic Health Record (EHR)Health CareMedical
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor and support DevOps team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement with a focus on advancing team capabilities and empowering members to take ownership of solutions
Coordinate DevOps team involvement in the organization software release process, ensuring successful coordination with development and product teams
Manage project delivery schedules, priorities and resource allocation
Delegate technical work effectively to team members providing coaching and growth opportunities while maintaining hands-on involvement in critical initiatives
Collaborate with peers and architects to ensure compliance to company security and quality management system standards
Partner with software engineering teams to design, deploy, and manage applications across cloud and on-premises environments
Oversee troubleshooting of production issues and coordinate remediation efforts to ensure business continuity with minimal downtime
Build and maintain infrastructure using automation, configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Cloud Build)
Continuously evaluate system performance and scalability, proposing or implementing targeted improvements
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Design, implement, and oversee scalable logging and monitoring systems
Qualification
Required
Proven experience managing and developing people, including performance management, mentoring, and building high-performing teams (must-have)
Strong knowledge on DevOps Best Practices focused but not limited to: Efficiency, Performance, Security, Disaster Recovery, Convergence
Robust base of estimation and planning to lead the team to achieve their objectives
Proven technical expertise to lead the team in designing and implementing solutions that achieve the DevOps yearly roadmap objectives
University degree in Computer Science or a related field
Fluency in English (written and spoken)
Minimum 5 years of experience with: UNIX/Linux systems, including configuration, troubleshooting, and scripting; Cloud environments
Strong hands-on experience with: Automation tools, particularly Terraform and Ansible; Configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines; Containerization technologies and methodologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Blue/Green Deployments, Service Discovery, Health Checks, etc.; Logging and Monitoring stacks (Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, ELK stack)
Preferred
GCP certifications
Experience in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Benefits
A competitive compensation package.
Remote work with occasional meetings.
Endless learning opportunities while transferring new technologies from academics to clinical practice all over the world.
Company
Saphetor
Saphetor is a personalised medicine company.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$6.63MKey Investors
GoBeyondFoundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)
2020-03-27Series A· $4.2M
2018-01-11Series Unknown
2016-07-13Debt Financing· $0.51M
Leadership Team
Andreas Massouras
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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