QA Platform Engineer

Summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a QA Platform Engineer (DevOps) to support their work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The role involves developing and improving platforms, ensuring compliance, and providing QA services while working in a technical and goal-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms
• Develops and maintains common tools and libraries
• Evaluates new technologies and practices
• Helps NCBI developers with adoption platforms, tools, architectural patterns and best practices
• Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines
• Practices Agile development and continuous improvement
• Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates
• Continuously automatically gather metrics for application quality for the enterprise-wide portfolio of applications
• Provide QA services on a project basis

Skills

• Proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Automating tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Implementing frameworks and utilities to support deployment, testing, and monitoring
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language
• Adequate level of Linux command-line skills
• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering
• Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks
• Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture
• OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty
• Service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd
• Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Automating tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Implementing frameworks and utilities to support deployment, testing, and monitoring
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language
• Adequate level of Linux command-line skills
• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks
• Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture
• OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty
• Service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd
• Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• Paid holidays
• Vacation
• Tuition reimbursement