NIH-NCBI
Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer
NIH-NCBI, Bethesda, Maryland, us, 20811
Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking
Openshift/Kubernetes Engineer
to join our systems team to support application developers and operations 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 at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.
NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access over the Internet to biomedical literature and genomic data, making it one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world. NCBI has a diverse staff of smart, talented, and deeply technical people who 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; and maintains ClinicalTrials.gov, a database of over 400,000 clinical studies around the world.
The Systems & DevOps team is responsible for the efficient operation of infrastructure to run NCBI's many applications. This includes providing convenient, scalable solutions for development, deployment, and operations across teams, languages, and cloud and on-prem environments.
This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems in a technical, scientific, and goal-oriented environment. NCBI offers flexible working hours, remote options, on- and off-site training courses, and conference attendance and tuition reimbursement.
Required Skills
NCBI has built a modern DevOps platform based on GitLab and Kubernetes, and is looking for support engineers to assist internal developers with transitioning legacy software development and deployment to the new The key requirement:In-depth knowledge/experience with *building and maintaining* Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Merely "using" OpenShift is insufficient.Experience with KubernetesExperience with GCP cloud services, including GKE and AnthosExperience with Gitlab and especially Gitlab CI/CDArgoCDFamiliarity with service-mesh technologies: Istio, Linkerd, etc.Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff.Educational Requirements
BS degree in a STEM field, or equivalent experienceCustomer-focused, team-oriented dispositionGood systems debugging skillsComfortable with the Linux environment or UNIX CLIExperience with some programming or scripting languageHave experience creating processes, procedures and SOP documentationGeneral understanding of TCP/IP and related protocolsInitiative to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completionComfortable dealing with users with varying levels of IT knowledgeEager to learn new technologiesStrong communication and soft skills to interface with customers, peers and managementGood judgement, sense of integrity, and responsibilityPreferred Experience & Skill sets
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experienceExperience with:
Service Reliability Engineering in any capacityLinux systems administrationAutomated CI servers, especially TeamCity and/or GitLabAutomation programming/scripting in any of: bash, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, PerlAutomated configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, cfengine, etc. Puppet is preferred.Version control systems, especially gitService Mesh technologies (e.g., linkerd, Istio)Configuring or using monitoring and alerting technologies (TIGK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, OpsGenie)Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suiteGitOps tools, especially ArgoCDGoogle Anthos
Understanding of:
Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)Linux network configurationLinux application containerization, especially DockerAttached network storage technologiesCloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or AzureAutomated CI/CD pipelinesDistributed systems design principles
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking
Openshift/Kubernetes Engineer
to join our systems team to support application developers and operations 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 at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.
NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access over the Internet to biomedical literature and genomic data, making it one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world. NCBI has a diverse staff of smart, talented, and deeply technical people who 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; and maintains ClinicalTrials.gov, a database of over 400,000 clinical studies around the world.
The Systems & DevOps team is responsible for the efficient operation of infrastructure to run NCBI's many applications. This includes providing convenient, scalable solutions for development, deployment, and operations across teams, languages, and cloud and on-prem environments.
This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems in a technical, scientific, and goal-oriented environment. NCBI offers flexible working hours, remote options, on- and off-site training courses, and conference attendance and tuition reimbursement.
Required Skills
NCBI has built a modern DevOps platform based on GitLab and Kubernetes, and is looking for support engineers to assist internal developers with transitioning legacy software development and deployment to the new The key requirement:In-depth knowledge/experience with *building and maintaining* Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Merely "using" OpenShift is insufficient.Experience with KubernetesExperience with GCP cloud services, including GKE and AnthosExperience with Gitlab and especially Gitlab CI/CDArgoCDFamiliarity with service-mesh technologies: Istio, Linkerd, etc.Provide on-call support to NCBI's internal developers and other staff.Educational Requirements
BS degree in a STEM field, or equivalent experienceCustomer-focused, team-oriented dispositionGood systems debugging skillsComfortable with the Linux environment or UNIX CLIExperience with some programming or scripting languageHave experience creating processes, procedures and SOP documentationGeneral understanding of TCP/IP and related protocolsInitiative to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completionComfortable dealing with users with varying levels of IT knowledgeEager to learn new technologiesStrong communication and soft skills to interface with customers, peers and managementGood judgement, sense of integrity, and responsibilityPreferred Experience & Skill sets
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experienceExperience with:
Service Reliability Engineering in any capacityLinux systems administrationAutomated CI servers, especially TeamCity and/or GitLabAutomation programming/scripting in any of: bash, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, PerlAutomated configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, cfengine, etc. Puppet is preferred.Version control systems, especially gitService Mesh technologies (e.g., linkerd, Istio)Configuring or using monitoring and alerting technologies (TIGK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, OpsGenie)Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suiteGitOps tools, especially ArgoCDGoogle Anthos
Understanding of:
Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)Linux network configurationLinux application containerization, especially DockerAttached network storage technologiesCloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or AzureAutomated CI/CD pipelinesDistributed systems design principles