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Job Summary:  
Principal Platform Engineers for various & unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S. (HQ: Chicago, IL). Leads and provides expertise in the development of programs for activities relating to software support and/or development including open-source projects. Analyzes, designs, develops, debugs, and modifies computer code for end user applications, beta general releases, and production support. Solves complex problems in administration, maintenance, integration, and troubleshooting of code and application ecosystem currently in production. Responsible for responding, triaging, and resolving production system issues in a timely fashion, across multiple projects when required. Leads in the development of new systems, features, and tools. Solves complex problems and identifies opportunities for technical improvement and performance optimization. Reviews and tests code to ensure appropriate standards are met. Developing infrastructure, configuration and deployment automation and full stack web applications. Operate large scale data automation systems, maintain and run high performance computing clusters for bioinformatics pipelines. Responsible for design and implementation of top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting the required level of quality. Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects. Technical environment: scripting with bash and python; Cl/CD; configuration management tools; Python, JavaScript, React; Open Stack cloud management system development; Docker; monitoring solutions; PostgreSQL; MySQL; NoSQL databases; programming using Python/Galang/JavaScript; AWS; Agile methodologies; Linux/Unix based operating systems; Git; CWL engines.

Education, Experience, or Certifications:  

Bachelorâ™s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics/Electrical Engineering or related field plus 7 years of experience in job offered or in infrastructure development required. Required skills: 5 years with: scripting with bash and python; Cl/CD; configuration management tools. 3 years with: developing infrastructure, configuration and deployment automation; developing full stack web applications with Python, JavaScript, React; Open Stack cloud management system development; operate large scale data automation systems; Docker; monitoring solutions; PostgreSQL; MySQL; NoSQL databases. 2 years with: programming using Python, Golang or JavaScript; AWS; Agile methodologies; Linux/Unix based operating systems; Git; running bioinformatics pipelines; maintain high performance computing cluster for bioinformatics pipelines; CWL engines. Experience with contributing to open-source projects. Background check including review of conviction history required. May telecommute.

Salary Range:

$120K - $141K

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