Platform Systems Manager

Blackcanyonconsulting; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k plan with employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking a Platform Systems Manager to support its work at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, MD. This role offers the flexibility of remote work and entails leading a team dedicated to managing and improving the DevSecOps and DataOps platform.

The candidate should possess project management skills, familiarity with cloud services like AWS or GCP, and coding experience. Competitive salary and benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with a 401k plan and tuition reimbursement.

Qualifications

• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based infrastructure.
• At least some understanding of Linux and networking.
• Familiarity with modern observability and logging tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage a platform team for DevSecOps and DataOps.
• Develop and improve platform tools and libraries.
• Ensure compliance with application security regulations.

Skills

Project and Product management skills

Agile process skills

Kubernetes, containerization

CI/CD and DevOps understanding

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Microsoft Azure

Education

B.S. in a STEM field or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

GitLab

Terraform

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Platform Systems Manager to support our 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 onsite/remote at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access to biomedical literature and genomic data over the web, making it one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world. NCBI's diverse staff of smart, talented, and deeply technical people 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, often with links to full-text literature and supporting data. NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

This 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. Stepping on decades of experience in dealing with some of industry's most vital data-intensive applications, NCBI approaches solving the problems at enterprise scale using modern technologies such as Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage a platform team that: Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps and Observability 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 leadershipopportunities at any level

Required Skills

• Project and Product management skills
• Agile process skills
• Coding skills (even if dated) in at least one programing language are required
• Kubernetes, containerization
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
• At least some understanding of Linux and networking

Bonus Skills

• 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

Educational Requirements

• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Computer Systems Engineering.

Benefits and Salary

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!