Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer at 54gene

Department: Engineering
Reports to: VP, Engineering
Industry: Biotechnology

Job Description

• We are looking for a Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer who will be responsible for mentoring and teaching existing team members.
• As such, the ideal candidate must have experience clearly explaining solutions to complex problems and demonstrate the ability to lead and impact knowledge effectively to junior resources, and have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations with experience programming in a high-level language such as Ruby, Python, Java, C# or other language to script installation, configuration and provisioning.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
• Provide continuous delivery solutions in a cloud environment with the core suite of tools used to manage different cloud providers.
• Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools such as Jenkins or other CI tools.
• Employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
• Manage a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC)
• Manage integration and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, etc.

 Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, or operations.
• 3+ more years experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations is required.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Experience in the use of configuration management automation tools such as Puppet (or other such tools) in creating continuous delivery systems.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data center.
• Team lead experience required
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies
• Adept at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment
• Experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies (Chef, Puppet).
• Scripting (shell, python, ruby) skills for monitoring and automation
• Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
• Experience maintaining an infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features
• Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• Possess a strong grasp of automation tools
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Experience working and managing large scale infrastructure is required

Other:

• Authorization to work in Nigeria
• The duties stated are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed.
• They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required.
• Other related duties may be assigned within scope of ability.