Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Every Exelixis employee is united in an ambitious cause: to launch innovative medicines that give patients and their families hope for the future. In this pursuit, we know our employees are our most valuable asset. After operating in the challenging biotech sector for 30 years, we have a proven track record of resiliency in the face of adversity. The success of our lead product has provided a solid commercial foundation allowing us to reinvigorate our research efforts, and grow our team in areas such as Drug Discovery, Clinical Development and Commercial.

As we expand our global partnerships and further reinvest in R&D to help us discover the next breakthrough for difficult-to-treat cancers, we’re seeking to add talented, dedicated employees to power our mission.

Cancer is our cause. Make it yours, too.

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE:

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer, IT Platform Services to support the design and creation of products and services to meet the technology needs of Exelixis.   This position will work help define and design our platform service, which includes database and cloud standards (configuration, provisioning, and ongoing operations).  This position will work with system owners architect the right solutions preferring cloud-first deployments over on premise setup. This position will plan out end to end migration strategies covering server, database, certificate and security in mind to the cloud. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Clearly articulate technical architecture (current and future state diagrams, solution best practices, reference architectures, design patterns) as determined by business requirements and other factors
• Leads key technical discussions and considerations around transformative technology from both a technical and non-technical perspective
• Collaborate with security teams to incorporate strong security controls, apply security best practices in our code development life cycle
• Drive product centricity by focusing on capabilities and value vs. technologies and tasks
• Modernize traditional server hosting by adopting cloud services, designing, and evaluating technical architectures for new services and features with stakeholders and leveraging innovative and latest technology developments through new implementation and enhancements to existing ones
• Act as the technical product owner for platform services team, including on-prem and cloud infrastructure and automation

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical direction to other individuals.
• Mentor junior engineer staff in technical skills development
• Manage vendors and contractors to deliver new capabilities and implement new technologies

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and eight years of related experience; or
• Master’s degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
• PhD degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially with services related to hosting: EC2, RDS, Systems Manager, IAM, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, especially Terraform
• Experience with RDBMS databases, especially Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Windows, Linux Server, NFS, Ansible, Unix Scripting
• Experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
• Experience in cloud and infrastructure automation

Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to effectively work in cross-functional teams with various backgrounds, personalities, and skill levels
• Strong customer-facing, oral, written, and verbal skills to effectively interface with business partners, stakeholders, and technical staff
• Ability to define and articulate complex architectures and processes
• Ability to work with minimal guidance, to adapt to frequent priority changes, and response to ad-hoc requests

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Environment: primarily working indoors in an office setting
• Work off hours and weekends as required

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