DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to support the Cancer Data Science Initiative (CDSI) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York City. Over the years, we have built many of the most popular cancer genomics tools in the field, including cBioPortal (http://cbioportal.org) and OncoKB (https://oncokb.org), which are used by thousands of cancer researchers and clinicians across the globe. To make cancer data easily accessible and usable at MSK as well as worldwide, we are looking for someone to expand our development operations tooling and our cloud infrastructure.

Please note that this is a hybrid role with an on-site requirement of two days per week. cBioPortal is an open-source multi-institutional organization, and this job is at MSK in New York City.

You are:

• Enthusiastic about solving problems in biology and cancer, and their clinical applications
• A DevOps engineer who is excited about leveraging cloud infrastructure for heavily used web applications and implementing robust continuous integration workflows for regression testing
• Someone who thrives in a dynamic environment
• A person who enjoys working in a team, is self-motivated, and can solve problems independently
• Able to learn new technologies and programming languages as needed.
• Someone who makes an effort to keep up with the tools and techniques as they apply to the DevOps environment

You will:

• Work closely with team members, cloud engineers within MSK’s IT department, engineers from other institutes, and open-source community developers to organize and further develop our cloud infrastructure
• Design and implement new continuous integration and deployment workflows with automated regression testing and blue-green deployments
• Rapidly troubleshoot and solve problems with existing software systems
• Participate in a development team that continually seeks to increase performance and is open to adopting new software engineering techniques and practices toward this goal

You have:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or related field and 2 years of software development experience or a master’s degree
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience developing in teams using Git/GitHub or other source code control systems
• Understanding of load balancing, DNS, firewalls

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with EKS, RDS, Aurora, Route53
• Experience with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or other continuous integration services
• Experience with Agile software development and participating in a Scrum team
• Prior involvement or interest in bioinformatics or cancer genomics domain.