DevOps Engineer III

Summary

The Allen Institute is a bioscience research organization focused on foundational research and advancing health. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer III to join their Software Engineering Team as an Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure supporting high-throughput data pipelines and multi-petabyte data analysis. This role involves managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure, ensuring system stability, and collaborating with stakeholders and developers.

Responsibilities

• Define Linux system configuration in code using Ansible; write automated tests to validate configuration-as-code using Molecule framework
• Create, deploy and maintain AWS Cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Review systems and infrastructure pull requests; follow Allen Institute standards for software development and code deployments
• Manage and integrate on-premises and cloud storage systems
• Take primary responsibility for infrastructure stability and performance; collaborate with developers to investigate issues that arise with applications running in production and staging environments
• Support and maintain CI/CD, database, logging, and metrics infrastructure
• Communicate effectively through written documentation and presentations as well as informal interactions with co-workers
• Work together with stakeholders and senior engineers to scope work and set timelines; proactively identify and help mitigate risks to project scope and timeline when needed to ensure milestones and deadlines are achieved
• Participate in on-hours support triage rotation, approximately two weeks out of every ten

Skills

• Bachelor's degree (combination of education and experience)
• 3 years' experience administering substantial Linux deployments
• Production experience with common infrastructure-as-code/configuration-as-code frameworks, such as Ansible, pyinfra, Pulumi, or Terraform
• Deep production experience using code to configure one of: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
• Experience writing scripts and automating tasks in a common scripting language
• Experience with relational database management
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field, and at least two years of experience in a DevOps, system administration, or similar role
• Experience defining infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform
• Experience deploying complex infrastructure with multiple AWS products
• Experience developing scripts in Python and Bash
• Experience with large-scale Ubuntu deployments
• Experience managing PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• High-performance computing experience, ideally on a public cloud

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree (combination of education and experience)
• 3 years' experience administering substantial Linux deployments
• Production experience with common infrastructure-as-code/configuration-as-code frameworks, such as Ansible, pyinfra, Pulumi, or Terraform
• Deep production experience using code to configure one of: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
• Experience writing scripts and automating tasks in a common scripting language
• Experience with relational database management
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field, and at least two years of experience in a DevOps, system administration, or similar role

Nice to Haves

• Experience defining infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform
• Experience deploying complex infrastructure with multiple AWS products
• Experience developing scripts in Python and Bash
• Experience with large-scale Ubuntu deployments
• Experience managing PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• High-performance computing experience, ideally on a public cloud

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible to enroll in benefits per eligibility rules outlined in the Allen Institute’s Benefits Guide. These benefits include medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Employees are also eligible to enroll in the Allen Institute’s 401k plan.
• Paid time off is also available as outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide.