16157 - DevOps Engineer III

Smith Johnson Group; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly bonuses

Profit sharing

Robust retirement plan

Affordable healthcare

Tuition reimbursement

24-hour employee gym

Job summary

Smith Johnson Group in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their Biocomputing team. In this role, you will work on innovative solutions across various platforms, ensuring the efficiency and reliability of infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and five years of relevant experience with various technologies including AWS, Docker, and Linux. This position offers a robust benefits package and flexible scheduling options to help you balance work and life.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in DevOps or systems administration.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex infrastructure projects.
• Ability to articulate ideas simply and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative products across digital and cloud platforms.
• Manage Production Releases for Biocomputing solutions.
• Implement CI/CD and DevOps in legacy environments.
• Assist in the versioning and archiving of software artifacts.

Skills

DevOps

Systems Administration

AWS

Docker

Linux

Windows

SaltStack

Shell Scripting

Ansible

MS SQL

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

CI/CD Implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

GIT

Splunk

Job description

In this role you will deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, enabling our development teams to serve our customers seamlessly across physical, digital and cloud platforms. You will be engineering a platform that provides services and frameworks to developers as a secure, scalable and highly available platform by using a variety of technologies such as AWS, Windows, Linux, SaltStack, MS SQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Docker, Octopus. Own, automate and troubleshoot the Production Releases for a complex set of Biocomputing solutions.

• Implement Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) and DevOps in transforming legacy environments, leverages experience and industry best practices as a team player
• Research, test, and pilot a new metrics collection system that can be reused for any application stack
• Define, select, implement and support a new configuration management system for a simplified orchestration workflow focused on applications while phasing out legacy configuration management system
• Work closely with development staff and train them on proprietary information and keeping that data safe across the enterprise
• Prototype reusable patterns and tools then coach developers on how to follow these best practices
• Deconstruct an old file store with an approved and defined solution and be able to perform without impact to customer base
• Ability to anticipate or see issues before they impact infrastructure or customer base
• Provides the build and deployment support to multiple projects
• Works with Configuration Management team to align organization and industry compliance best practices
• Assist development teams in implementing the versioning and archiving of the software artifacts and validation documentation in AWS/S3/Glacier
• Works with all teams in developing automation of manual activities in accordance with DevOps principles
• Advanced expertise with Shell Scripting
• Ability to define and implement industry standard practices around cloud platform security
• Ability to define, implement and support required certificates
• Advanced knowledge of Windows / Linux systems administration
• Setup/Configuration/Administration of tools like GIT and Splunk
• Systems administration skills in Linux and Windows
• Setup/Configuration/Administration of Binary Repositories
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as SaltStack and Ansible
• Scripting experience on multiple languages
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Information Technology
• Five (5) years of experience in DevOps, systems administration, or relevant technical role
• Articulate enough to explain ideas/concepts outside developer wheelhouse simply and effectively
• Five (5) years of experience working with many of the following technologies or databases is required: Windows / Linux Administration, AWS & AWSCLI, SaltStack, Docker, MS SQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Splunk
• Demonstrated work experience managing complex infrastructure projects with minimal supervision
• Works well with group inside and outside of defined team

Overview

Come build the software platforms behind clinical genomics as part of our clients Biocomputing team, you’ll design and operate high-throughput, cloud-enabled systems that transform sequencing data into diagnostic results for inherited and rare diseases—work that directly impacts patient care at scale. The Biocomputing Department offers a comprehensive benefits package: quarterly bonuses, profit sharing, a robust retirement plan, affordable healthcare, Social Security tax exemption, tuition reimbursement, access to a family medical clinic, and a 24‑hour employee gym. We also support flexible scheduling—including a 9/80 option (40 hrs/week with alternating Fridays off)—so you can do your best work and take care of life’s appointments. Consider joining our dynamic team!