Sr. DevOps Engineer

Company Description

DNAnexus is a leading provider of secure, scalable, and intuitive biomedical data analysis software and bioinformatics applications for the life sciences and healthcare communities. The company actively manages and supports more than 80 petabytes of complex genomic, multi-omic, and clinical datasets on behalf of a growing network of collaborations with large-scale biobanks, as well as leading pharmaceutical, clinical diagnostic, academic research, and government organizations. Over 40,000 scientists across 48 countries are now using the highly collaborative, cloud-based, end-to-end platform to gain data-driven insights that can advance scientific discovery, accelerate precision medicine, and improve patient care.

Job Description

You are a DevOps engineer who thrives in a dynamic environment, you desire to be challenged each and every day, and you enjoy working with brilliant people to deliver innovative solutions such as precisionFDA and the UK Biobank Platform. You want to apply your skills to make the world a better place. You have real-world experience maintaining and improving cloud-based solutions that delight users or someone who is less experienced but eager to learn new things. While you are ideally an expert with real world experience managing cloud-based solutions, we are just as glad if you are a junior engineer with a  desire to learn on the job. You are familiar with Linux administration, Bash and AWS. You also have a decent knowledge of monitoring and logging systems. You like working with smart customers to solve complex problems that matter.

Who we’re looking for:

• Do you live and breathe DevOps and stay up to date with new developments? Or do you wish to switch your backend developer career into DevOps?
• Are you a solid SW Engineer with interest in AWS or Azure clouds?
• Are you excited about expressing infrastructure as code?
• Do you enjoy turning complexity into clarity with metrics and data visualization?
• Want to also help accelerate the pace of genomics and disease research?

What you will be helping with:

• Help with high availability and scalability of our large-scale cloud system (we run thousands of servers mostly in AWS)
• Developing our internal tool for communication with our platform
• Push automation whenever possible
• Maintain and upgrade our current cloud infrastructure
• Improving security of our platform
• Make recommendations on how to improve our platform and workflow
• Documenting new procedures with precision on our Ops wiki

Technologies and Tools of focus:

• AWS (lots of services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, SQS, etc.)
• Docker
• MongoDB
• Python
• Terraform
• Prometheus + Grafana
• Splunk
• GitHub Actions

Qualifications

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science or related field or applicable experience
• Software development in a high-level programming language such as Python, Node.js, etc.  
• Must be capable of writing clean, well-structured code
• Skilled in writing and maintaining complex bash scripts
• Linux Server system administration experience in a large-scale cloud-based environment. AWS or Azure preferred.
• Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes, etc.
• Excellent time management and communication skills
• Have an insatiable appetite for technology

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual starting salary for this position is between $185,000 – $210,000.  Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, flexible paid time off, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and national holidays paid.

Additional Information

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with over 220 team members across the United States and Europe, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and market adoption. With the support of leading investors including Google Ventures and Blackstone, and trusted by hundreds of the world's biomedical leaders,  the company is at the innovative forefront with our precision health data cloud to drive scientific breakthroughs.   If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today!