Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Black Canyon Consulting•Bethesda, MD

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

In-depth knowledge/experience with building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Merely "using" OpenShift is insufficient.
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with GCP cloud services, including GKE and Anthos
Experience with Gitlab and especially Gitlab CI/CD
ArgoCD
Familiarity with service-mesh technologies: Istio, Linkerd, etc.
BS degree in a STEM field, or equivalent experience
Customer-focused, team-oriented disposition
Good systems debugging skills
Comfortable with the Linux environment or UNIX CLI
Experience with some programming or scripting language
Have experience creating processes, procedures and SOP documentation
General understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols
Initiative to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion
Comfortable dealing with users with varying levels of IT knowledge
Eager to learn new technologies
Strong communication and soft skills to interface with customers, peers and management
Good judgement, sense of integrity, and responsibility

Nice To Haves

Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud or Linux experience
Experience with: Service Reliability Engineering in any capacity
Linux systems administration
Automated CI servers, especially TeamCity and/or GitLab
Automation programming/scripting in any of: bash, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, Perl
Automated configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, cfengine, etc. Puppet is preferred.
Version control systems, especially git
Service Mesh technologies (e.g., linkerd, Istio)
Configuring or using monitoring and alerting technologies (TIGK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, OpsGenie)
Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suite
GitOps tools, especially ArgoCD
Google Anthos
Understanding of: Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc.)
Linux network configuration
Linux application containerization, especially Docker
Attached network storage technologies
Cloud computing environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Automated CI/CD pipelines
Distributed systems design principles