Platform DevEx Engineer

3 weeks ago


Bethesda, Maryland, United States NIH-NCBI Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled DevEx Platform Engineer to join our team at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health.

This is a full-time opportunity to work onsite/remote at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

As a DevEx Platform Engineer, you will be part of a 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement 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.
  • Develop Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more.
  • Configure Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams.
  • Debug deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more.
  • Document knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence.
  • Lead smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits and Salary

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location. The targeted range for this position is $115,000 - $150,000.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.



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