DevOps Engineer

job summary:

This is a one-year position and while we don't currently have budget committed to contract-to-perm, we have a long enough history of conversion that we will only consider candidates who reside in a Harvard-payrolled state. Specific areas of skill and experience we are looking for include: High performance computing, Linux administration, DevOps. Familiarity with higher ed or academic medicine is nice to have.

Job Description:

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is at the vanguard in biological and biomedical research, and scientific investigators at HMS and affiliate hospitals continue to push the envelope, developing novel approaches to the study of biological processes both at the bench and via computational methods. The HMS Department of Information Technology, a key partner in supporting such computation-based research, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer interested in empowering the school's computational research community by leading HPC, cloud and lab-based research computing infrastructure design and support. The DevOps Engineer will drive the design and implementation of modern, reusable, sustainable systems and configurations, using up-to-date best practices. In particular, the position will be responsible for policy-based provisioning of bare-metal-as-a-service, containerized solutions (Docker, Singularity), fully automated/Continuous Integration driven system configuration, and service reporting, monitoring, and trending. The engineer will also architect and manage cloud-based computing on platforms such as AWS or Azure, and hybrid cloud/HPC computing models, as they pertain to research computing workflows. In addition, they will lead large scale system automation beyond the specific scope of HPC, using the latest DevOps technologies such as containers for application deployment and reproducibility, distributed storage and key-store systems, configuration management and orchestration. This position has a long-term focus, both within and outside of the direct context of DevOps, managing technologies and tools that serve as a stepping stone to future services of benefit to the greater HMS community, while maintaining the superior on-site response and expertise HMS researchers and faculty are accustomed to. The Sr. DevOps Engineer is responsible for modernizing and maintaining existing systems as well as acting as a mentor and resource for other team members.

Basic Qualifications:

- Minimum of five years' post-secondary education and/or relevant work experience

Additional Qualifications and Skills:

- Development experience in Bash and at least two additional languages (Java, C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, etc.)

- Advanced *NIX/Linux system administration (Red Hat/Debian) experience

- Experience with automation and configuration management (Puppet)

- General Networking skills (OSI model, Layer 2 & 3 switching and routing, TCP/IP...)

- Knowledge of storage, network, and server hardware

- Experience evaluating and deploying open source tools

- Cloud/AWS/Azure (EC2/EBS/S3/SES/EBS) experience

- Source management (git/mercurial/svn)

- Firm understanding of *NIX/Linux and application debugging

- SAN and NAS knowledge, including iSCSI, NFS and FC (EMC / Isilon)

- Parallel file systems, Lustre, GPFS, OneFS, MooseFS

- System monitoring and configuration (Zabbix/Nagios/Ganglia/Sensu)

- Performance tuning and troubleshooting complex systems

- Relational and NoSQL databases

- Application load balancing solutions for scaling and HA

- Scientific research support experience

- Bioinformatics software experience

- Management of large data sets

- Medical Informatics or Healthcare data experience

- Protected data, HIPAA, PHI experience

- Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation; NGS, Microscopy, Mass Spectrometry, etc.

location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

job type: Contract

salary: $75 - 85 per hour

work hours: 9am to 4pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

Specific areas of skill and experience we are looking for include:

High performance computing, Linux administration, DevOps. Familiarity with higher ed or academic medicine is nice to have.

qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

- Minimum of five years' post-secondary education and/or relevant work experience

2 yrs HPC exp.

Specific areas of skill and experience we are looking for include:

High performance computing, Linux administration, DevOps. Familiarity with higher ed or academic medicine is nice to have.

skills:

Additional Qualifications and Skills:

MUST HAVE:

High performance computing experience - Linux administration - DevOps experience and HPC Admin (2 yrs)

- Development experience in Bash and at least two additional languages (Java, C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, etc.)

- Advanced *NIX/Linux system administration (Red Hat/Debian) experience

- Experience with automation and configuration management (Puppet)

- General Networking skills (OSI model, Layer 2 & 3 switching and routing, TCP/IP...)

- Knowledge of storage, network, and server hardware

- Experience evaluating and deploying open source tools

- Cloud/AWS/Azure (EC2/EBS/S3/SES/EBS) experience

- Source management (git/mercurial/svn)

- Firm understanding of *NIX/Linux and application debugging

- SAN and NAS knowledge, including iSCSI, NFS and FC (EMC / Isilon)

- Parallel file systems, Lustre, GPFS, OneFS, MooseFS

- System monitoring and configuration (Zabbix/Nagios/Ganglia/Sensu)

- Performance tuning and troubleshooting complex systems

- Relational and NoSQL databases

- Application load balancing solutions for scaling and HA

- Scientific research support experience

- Bioinformatics software experience

- Management of large data sets

- Medical Informatics or Healthcare data experience

- Protected data, HIPAA, PHI experience

- Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation; NGS, Microscopy, Mass Spectrometry, etc.

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