Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer/Developer - Advanced Molecular Detection

Overview:

WiredPeople is seeking to hire a Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer/Developer - Advanced Molecular Detection to help support genomic surveillance and outbreak investigations for pathogens of public health concern in Florida.

The Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer/Developer will work directly with the Bioinformatics Team, serving as a bioinformatics developer and primarily support the development and implementation of a cloud computing architecture to improve and expand our current computational infrastructure. An ideal candidate must have a Doctorate degree, 5 years of experience following your degree, and you must have AWS/Cloud experience. This role will also operate remotely. 

Responsibilities: 

• Plan and execute whole-genome sequencing analysis, comparative genomic analysis, and other analytic research projects, establishing new standard operating procedures (SOPs) by developing custom bioinformatics pipelines/workflows.
• Select and develop appropriate analysis techniques and measures and identify and implement the necessary software and databases to complete defined analytical tasks.
• Develop, manage, and curate databases for analysis.
• Identify, implement, and maintain data quality control, data submissions and management programs.
• Lead the development and implementation of a cloud computing architecture to improve and expand our current computational infrastructure.
• Provide telephonic and web based technical assistance to other bioinformaticians, laboratory staff, and epidemiologists on the use of complex data analysis techniques and methods.
• Provide approved updates with analytical results from developed bioinformatic pipelines to be disseminated to laboratory and epidemiological staff.
• Lead and coordinate with other bioinformaticians involved in analysis projects, including data sharing and engagement across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Disseminate approved results of research projects in a wide range of venues including publications, peer reviewed journals, summaries, manuscripts, special reports, and oral/poster presentations.
• Attend approved training workshops and complete a corresponding report on the training received.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required:

• A PhD in bioinformatics, genomic epidemiology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, evolutionary biology, microbial genetics, molecular biology, computer science, or related field.
• Must have 5 years+ experience following your degree. 
• At least five years of practical and technical experience in microbial and/or public health bioinformatics.
• At least five years of experience with bioinformatic development of pipelines for the phylogenetic and comparative genomic analysis of microbial organisms
• At least two years of experience with cloud computing.
• Bioinformatics experience with microbiology and/or public health applications.
• Experience working in a UNIX/LINUX environment and writing shell scripts.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Perl, R, C++, Java) and willingness to learn new languages, if necessary.
• Experience developing custom scripts and executing command-line bioinformatics tools for microbial genomics comparative analysis (i.e., assembly, annotation, variant detection, multiple sequence alignment, phy