Senior Platform DevEx Engineer (DevOps)

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) (Headquarters: Bethesda MD)

Linux k8s Service Mesh Kafka GitLab ArgoCD Elastic APM Python C++ JavaScript Typescript Kotlin Scala Golang Rust DevOps CI/CD YTT Kubernetes Openshift Anthos GKE AKS EKS Prometheus EFK ElasticSearch fluentd Kibana TIGK Telegraph InfluxDB Grafana Kapacitor DataDog Sensu Jaeger Sentry OpsGenie Istio Linkerd RabbitMQ AWS Kinesis Apache Spark Airflow Hashicorp Vault Azure KeyVault Google Secret Manager Leadership Back End Engineer

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for 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. This opportunity is full time and onsite/remote at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote. VISA sponsorship is possible.

NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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. NCBI's diverse staff collaborate to build critically valuable services for researchers, physicians, educators, students, and the general public (e.g., PubMed).

The Platform Services team builds and maintains the systems that software developers across NCBI 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. We're involved in the entire development lifecycle including tooling, CI/CD, testing, deployment, security integration, monitoring, and debugging support.

What you'll do:
As a Senior Platform DevEx engineer, you'll 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. You should be prepared to work on:
* GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers.
* Python applications, scripts, and libraries for DevOps interfaces.
* Kubernetes configuration templates using YTT for consistent deployments.
* Debugging deployments on Kubernetes (Openshift, Anthos) using ArgoCD, Istio, etc.
* Documentation for components and the platform (READMEs, Confluence).
* Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.

What we look for:
We are looking for senior proactive developers with 7+ years of direct experience building software or maintaining DevOps infrastructure and a strong interest in learning more.

Required Skills:
* 7+ years of direct experience
* Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language (Python, C++, JavaScript/Typescript, Kotlin, Scala, Golang, 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 Kubernetes/Nomad, and distributions (OpenShift, Anthos, GKE, AKS, EKS).
* Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, EFK/TIGK stacks, DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie).
* Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Bonus skills and experience:
* Experience building high availability applications.
* Experience configuring multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.
* Familiarity with Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
* Familiarity with event bus technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis).
* Familiarity with data processing tools (Apache Spark, Airflow).
* Familiarity with secret management tools (Hashicorp Vault, Azure KeyVault, Google Secret Manager).

Benefits:
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.