Sr. Application Development (DevOps) Engineer

Job Description

About This Role

The Senior Application Development (DevOps) Engineer is a collaborative role focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness throughout the software/application development life cycle. You will play a critical role in advancing DevOps concepts, methodologies, and practices to enhance efficiency, increase the adoption of application development tools, and improve collaboration within IT development and operations teams across various functional areas. The goal is to ensure well-designed release processes, aligned tools and platforms, and effective collaboration for development teams.

The Senior AppDev Engineer consults with cross-functional departments and IT teams to understand their short- and long-term objectives, development and release processes, and development tool platform requirements. You will also proactively seek automation opportunities in software development pipelines, such as utilizing source code repositories, automating code integration and delivery/deployment, and integrating IT systems/tools. By measuring and improving lead time, cycle time, and other relevant metrics, they enhance business value. Additionally, you will identify and implement best practices for selecting, implementing, managing, and supporting AppDev tool platforms. Leading tool platform support teams, providing guidance and technical expertise, and collaborating with top-notch vendors further contribute to this role's responsibilities.

DevOps is still evolving, and it is challenging as well exciting to be a key contributor to the success of Biogen.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure the AppDev tools platforms are supported well and running without any issues.
• Keep up to date with the industry trends and provide timely communications about health, status, concerns, potential issues etc related to the AppDev tool platforms.
• Ensure Security, Reliability and Availability of the AppDev Platforms through timely upgrades and patching etc of the software.
• Manage the teams that supports the AppDev platforms, on a day-to-day basis, in a multi-vendor scenario.
• Provide the AppDev platform support team with technical expertise, process expertise and guidance on solving day to day issues and problems with these systems.
• Identify opportunities for tools’ integration and Automation in the software development pipeline such as use of Source code repositories, Code integration & Delivery (CI/CD), Cloud infrastructure, Deployment and Operations.
• Provide guidance and technical expertise to IT Development and Operations teams from various business functions on the best use of AppDev tool platforms, Automation and Release processes mapping.
• Support creation and execution of roadmaps/plans for AppDev tools in alignment to Biogen’s overall Tool platform strategies, cloud hosting strategies, Security and compliance guidelines.
• Management of User Accounts, software licenses etc to ensure optimal utilization of resources and control costs.
• Support adherence to Biogen’s processes, particularly the GxP IT processes relevant to the AppDev tool platforms.

Who You Are

You enjoy designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure deployment processes. You love to collaborate with development and operations teams to automate and streamline the software delivery pipeline.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• 7+ Years of Experience in development engineering,
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with DevOps Methodologies and Practices; AWS Cloud infrastructure and understanding of various types of implementations; running servers Unix/Linux Operating systems 
• Knowledge of Bash, Python, Shell, JSON, XML etc. managing application support teams and supporting internal customers
• Solid understanding of Automation best practices, configuration management and CI/CD and Release Management and Orchestration
• Experience of using the AppDev Tool platforms such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, etc (installation, administration, maintenance)
• Experience in collaborating with cross functional IT teams and senior management while having an ability to explain, train and present about tools, DevOps Methodologies and Practices
• Experience working with software vendors, tools evaluation, POCs etc.

Preferred Skills

• Pharma/biotech industry experience 
• Industry Certification in one or more AppDev tool platforms and AWS cloud hosting infrastructure
• Experience with Release Automation and Orchestration

Additional Information

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is