Platform DevEx Engineer

As an Platform DevEx engineer, you'll be a part of a cross-functional team of around 20, building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and maintain software and web services that are used around the world.

You should be prepared to work on:

GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications, in many languages, from C++ to Scala, Kotlin, and Python.

Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more.

Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams

Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more.

Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence.

Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.

Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses Python, C++, JavaScript/Typescript, some Kotlin & Scala, and small amounts of Golang and Rust.

A working knowledge of Linux systems and the command line

Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, package publishing, and containerization

Experience developing CLI applications

Experience building and deploying web APIs to cloud services or Kubernetes

Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad, and Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift Container Platform, Anthos, GKE, AKS, EKS, etc.

Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, the EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana) or TIGK (Telegraph InfluxDB, Grafana, Kapacitor) stacks, DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, or OpsGenie.

Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD pipelines

Experience building high availability applications

Experience configuring multi-tenent Kubernetes clusters

Familiarity with Service Mesh techlolgies like Istio or Linkerd

Familiarity with event bus technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kenesis, etc.

Familiarity with data processing and distributed computing tools like Apache Spark or Airflow

Familiarity with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault, Azure KeyVault, Google Secret Manager, etc.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!