Senior DevOps Engineer — Secure AWS Cloud for Research

Harvard Medical School; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous paid time off

Tuition assistance and reimbursement

Job summary

Harvard Medical School's Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage secure SRCE (FISMA-certified AWS) environments, enabling groundbreaking biomedical research. You will oversee deployment, monitoring, patching, and compliance, ensuring confidentiality and availability while supporting researchers and developers across the stack.

You will apply best-practice cloud security controls, contribute to cost-saving refinements, and collaborate with IT and research

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of IT applications, processes, software and equipment.
• Cloud security controls, principles and best practices.
• Experience with AWS technologies (IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Experience with legal/regulatory standards (PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Experience with healthcare systems and HIPAA-regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee SRCE deployment, monitoring, reporting, patching, and compliance.
• Apply cloud security designs to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Manage CI/CD for AWS-based technologies.
• Support end users and developers on technical computing issues.
• Document security, data protection, and data residency solutions.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS

Independent decision making

Executive-level communication

Security standards

Education

Post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Tools

Puppet

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub workflows

Splunk

Job description

Harvard Medical School's Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage secure SRCE (FISMA-certified AWS) environments, enabling groundbreaking biomedical research. You will oversee deployment, monitoring, patching, and compliance, ensuring confidentiality and availability while supporting researchers and developers across the stack.

You will apply best-practice cloud security controls, contribute to cost-saving refinements, and collaborate with IT and research