What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform DevEx Engineer position at NIH-NCBI?
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Platform DevEx 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.
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 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 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 :
- 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.
What you'll do
As an Platform DevEx engineer, you'll be a 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.
You should be prepared to work on :
What we look for
While we have roles at all levels of experience, we are looking for proactive developers with some experience building software or maintaining DevOps infrastructure and a strong interest in learning more.
Required Skills
Preferred skills and experience
Bonus skills and experience
Benefits and Salary
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.
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location. The targeted range for this position is $115,000 - $150,000.
If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Salary : $115,000 - $150,000