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Job Summary:

Lead Platform Engineers for Chicago, IL location. Lead team to achieve project objectives and provide technical mentorship. Responsible for responding, triaging, and resolving production system issues across multiple projects, including open-source projects. Managing activities of a complex and challenging nature with decisions having a large impact on the team or across multiple teams. Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting the required level of quality.

• Manage activities of a complex and challenging nature, including design and implementation of large systems and/or core components.

• Develop full stack web applications, infrastructure, configuration and deployment automation.

• As Scrum master, responsible for leading deliverables using Agile methodologies.  Organize backlog grooming sessions, scrums and retrospectives.

• Openstack cloud management system development and operation of large scale data automation systems.

• Maintain a high performance computing cluster for bioinformatics pipelines. Actively mentor Junior Platform and Software Engineers. 

• Collaborate with Software, bioinformatics, user-services and operations teams to deliver cross functional projects. 

• Build a team including recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new Platform Engineers. Design, develop, deploy, run and maintain CI/CD pipelines. 

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain tools for monitoring, logging and alerting.  

• Technical Environment: scripting with bash and python; configuration management tools like Juju and Saltstack; programming Python, Javascript, React, Golang; AWS; Docker; monitoring solutions; PostgreSQL; MySQL; NoSQL databases; CWL engines; Linux/Unix based operating systems; and Git. 

Education:

• Bachelorâ™s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field plus 7 years of progressive experience in the job offered or in software engineering required

Experience:

• 7 years of progressive experience in the job offered or in software engineering required
• 5 years with each: scripting with bash and python; CI/CD; configuration management tools
• 3 years with each: developing infrastructure, configuration and deployment automation; developing full stack web applications with Python, JavaScript, React; Openstack cloud management system development; operation of large scale data automation systems; running bioinformatics pipelines; maintaining a high performance computing cluster for bioinformatics pipelines; Docker; monitoring solutions; PostgreSQL; MySQL; NoSQL databases; CWL engines
• 2 years with: programming using Python, Golang or JavaScript; AWS; Exp must include: contributing to open-source projects; Agile methodologies; Linux/Unix based operating systems; Git

Background check including review of conviction history required.

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