Senior Platform DevEx Engineer DevOps
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Build What Matters Simply and Efficiently
Agilious leads with a singular purpose - to empower organizations to build digital solutions that truly serve people by simplifying software delivery and eliminating waste. With over 20 years of experience in strategy design engineering and data our clients count on us not just to deliver technology but to strengthen your teams with the skills training and strategy they need to create real user-focused impact at scale.
About the Role
Agilious is seeking a skilled Senior Platform DevEx/DevOps Engineer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) an institute of the National Institutes of Health. NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access to biomedical literature and genomic data over the web making it one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world. NCBIs diverse staff of smart talented and deeply technical people collaborate to build critically valuable services for researchers physicians educators students and the general public. For example NCBI develops and delivers PubMed an index of over 29 million biomedical research abstracts often with links to full-text literature and supporting data.
The Platform Services team builds and maintains the systems that software developers use to ensure that they are consistently pushing and deploying high quality code that complies with Federal Standards for application security and mature code practices.
- Tools for creating and setting up new projects consistently across the org.
- CI pipelines and build tools for consistent expectations across languages and application frameworks
- Testing frameworks and metrics to assure only quality and secure code can be sent to production.
- Deployment and publishing pipelines to bring applications to their users in on-premises and cloud environments and to provide public access to open-source projects.
- Integrations for the secure management of deployment parameters credentials and more.
- Tooling to allow applications to communicate asynchronously monitor performance metrics debug live applications and much more.
Location/Remote: This position is full-time and is primarily remote with select day(s) working from a location in the DC-MD-VA metro region.
What Youll Do
As a Senior Platform DevEx engineer youll be a part of a highly experienced cross-functional team of around 20 building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build deploy and maintain software and web services that are used around the world.
- GitLab CI pipeline configuration templates and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications in many languages from C to Scala Kotlin and Python.
- Python applications scripts and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds deployments and more.
- Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams
- Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD Istio and more.
- Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole in READMEs and on Confluence.
- Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.
- Other similar professional duties may be assigned as needed
Qualifications:
Clearance: Public Trust Clearance must be obtainable
Required Skills
- 7 years of direct experience
- Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses Python C JavaScript/Typescript some Kotlin & Scala and small amounts of Golang and Rust.
- A working knowledge of Linux systems and the command line
- Familiarity with source control CI/CD pipelines package publishing and containerization
Preferred skills and experience
- Experience developing CLI applications
- Experience building and deploying web APIs to cloud services or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad and Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift Container Platform Anthos GKE AKS EKS etc.
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus the EFK (ElasticSearch fluentd Kibana) or TIGK (Telegraph InfluxDB Grafana Kapacitor) stacks DataDog Sensu Jaeger Sentry or OpsGenie.
- Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Bonus skills and experience
- Experience building high-availability applications
- Experience configuring multi-tenent Kubernetes clusters
- Familiarity with Service Mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
- Familiarity with event bus technologies like Kafka RabbitMQ AWS Kenesis etc.
- Familiarity with data processing and distributed computing tools like Apache Spark or Airflow
- Familiarity with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault Azure KeyVault Google Secret Manager etc.
Why Work at Agilious
At Agilious we put our people first. As a team-focused company we foster a collaborative environment where every employee has a voice opportunities to develop professionally and the support to thrive. If youre looking for a career where you can learn contribute and grow wed love to hear from you.
Our Benefits:
- Health dental and vision insurance to take care of your health needs
- Supplemental Benefits: Life Insurance Long and Short-Term Disability
- 401(k) plan with contributions and annual profit sharing
- Generous paid time off federal & floating holidays to maintain balance
- Robust Professional Development to continue your education
- Employee Assistance Program Support for a wide range of life events and experiences
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
At this time Agilious will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below.
Salary Range: $150000 - $200000
Employment Type
Full Time
