Systems Adminstrator

Black Canyon Consulting•Bethesda, MD

8d•$115,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a DataOps Engineer to support 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 can be onsite/remote at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote. NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access to biomedical literature and genomic data over the web. NCBI develops and delivers services like PubMed. This role is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems as part of a new DataOps Platform team at NCBI. Developing an enterprise-wide DataOps platform is a new initiative at NCBI, leveraging modern technologies such as Kubernetes, GitOps, and containerization.

Requirements

Strong coding skills in at least one programming language (Python, C++, ...)
Kubernetes, containerization
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub or equivalent
Apache AirFlow or equivalent
Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
Linux command-line skills

Nice To Haves

Google Anthos
Docker
GitOps tools: ArgoCD or equivalent
Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform or equivalent
GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
Modern observability and logging tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk, or equivalent
Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent
Data transfer tools: AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent
Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture
Experience working in Agile environment

Responsibilities

Develops and continuously improves DataOps platform.
Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.
Evaluates new technologies and practices.
Helps NCBI developers with adoption of platform.
Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.
Embraces agile development and continuous improvement.
Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level.