DevOps Engineer, AWS Expert!

The ICE Group; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Life Sciences startup in San Mateo is seeking a skilled DevOps engineer to manage and optimize its AWS infrastructure for significant growth. Your mission will involve hands-on management of AWS servers, automation using Python and frameworks like Ansible, and collaboration with teams in data science and software development. This position offers unique opportunities to integrate cloud technology with advanced electronics, enhancing the company's mission to revolutionize drug discovery pipelines.

Qualifications

• Expert working with AWS, managing tens to hundreds of servers.
• Advanced knowledge of automation frameworks such as Puppet or Ansible.
• Solid Python, Puppet, and/or BASH scripting for automation.
• Background in relational database technologies, Postgres preferred.
• Understanding of network fundamentals like TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker.

Responsibilities

• Manage our expansion on AWS with hands-on involvement.
• Lead systems management and optimization efforts.
• Work closely with data science, CV/ML, and software experts.

Skills

AWS management

Automation frameworks (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

Python scripting

Relational database technologies

Network fundamentals

Container technologies (Docker)

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Job description

ICE Group Client is a very well funded Life Sciences startup that is the leader in combining Big Data Analytics with IoT and massive Video Data Ingestion (CV & ML). Their mission is to save lives through revolutionizing drug discovery and approval pipelines.

Job Description

Comp $150k to $180, DOE

ICE Client has scaled fast with this DevOps role becoming a critical addition to our engineering team.

Your mission will be to take control of our already sizable AWS infrastructure using your AWS and Python Automation DevOps talents to both optimize what we have and prepare us for massive growth.

Additionally, you will have the unique opportunity to help us connect our cloud infrastructure to the world of advanced electronics: where the cloud meets IoT.

Finally, in the spirit of DevOps you will be embedded with talented developers to streamline our entire engineering cycle. Plus we will let you play with all the latest toys, we are big on Docker and Ansible to name a just a few.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage (Hands On!) our expansion on AWS and be the go to person for scalability and availability concerns
• Lead our systems management and optimization efforts, working across groups to keep us sharp
• Work closely with experts in data science, CV/ML, and software to simply get stuff done

Qualifications

• Expert working with AWS, managing tens to hundreds of servers on AWS
• Advanced knowledge of automation frameworks such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt
• Solid Python, Puppet, and/or BASH scripting for automation
• Background in relational database technologies (Postgres is preferred)
• Understanding of network fundamentals (DHCP, DNS, ARP, BGP, TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.)
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker or LXC (Docker Preferred)

Plusses:

• Experience with Cassandra or another NoSQL database
• Hands on experience with Marathon, Mesos, Chronos
• Experience with Debian
• Experience with CircleCI or Travis
• Familiarity with Raspberry Pi

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.