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Job Summary:
The Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to support their Center for Translational Data Science. The role involves providing production support, monitoring, CI/CD design, and managing AI/ML infrastructure for open-source platforms aimed at enhancing scientific discovery.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for design and implementation of top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting and helping define the required level of quality.
• Participation in complex and challenging activities, including design and implementation.
• Responsible for a scope of significant size critical to the team’s success.
• Provide technical leadership and effectively mentor interns and less experienced members.
• Actively participate in the hiring process and provide fair and productive interview feedback.
• Negotiate complex decisions, present options and persuasively advocate for optimal technical solutions, internally and externally.
• Utilizes technical knowledge of existing and emerging technologies, including public cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects.
• Performs other related work as needed.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• Responsible for design and implementation of top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting and helping define the required level of quality.
• Participation in complex and challenging activities, including design and implementation.
• Responsible for a scope of significant size critical to the team’s success.
• Provide technical leadership and effectively mentor interns and less experienced members.
• Actively participate in the hiring process and provide fair and productive interview feedback.
• Negotiate complex decisions, present options and persuasively advocate for optimal technical solutions, internally and externally.
• Utilizes technical knowledge of existing and emerging technologies, including public cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects.
• Performs other related work as needed.
• Resume/CV (required)
Preferred:
• Advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a relevant quantitative field strongly preferred.
• 6+ years professional experience as a system or DevOps engineer or demonstrated skills and qualifications through projects, initiatives, or outstanding performance.
• Hands-on scripting experience (Bash, Python, or other dynamic language).
• Unix/Linux programming or system administration experience.
• Experience with OpenStack and AWS p(EC2/S3) cloud technologies.
• Experience with configuration management utility (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
• Experience with F5 or other load balancing technologies (Nginx, AWS ELB/ALB, etc.).
• Experience with source control and build systems (SVN, Git, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience with container based deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with log aggregation tools (ELK stack, Splunk).
• Experience with security frameworks (FISMA, NIST, FIPS).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Openstack), CI/CD, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience leading DevOps initiatives and process improvement.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, and monitoring AI/ML models and infrastructure.
• Cover Letter (preferred)
• Ability to collaborate with team members and help define guidelines and best practices and ensuring accountability for deliverables and outcomes.
• Ability to take and provide constructive and helpful input and feedback on technical issues.
• Ability to negotiate complex decisions, present options and persuasively advocate for optimal technical solutions, internally and externally.
• In-depth knowledge in most technical areas of major projects and the core DevOps technology scope.
• Considered a Subject Matter Expert of most DevOps technology and solutions.
• Ability to take multiple complex tasks and break them into smaller ones, estimating the effort needed to complete them, prioritizing them appropriately, and ensuring the completion of each task, meeting the required level of quality.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team and ensure accountability for deliverables and outcomes.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload to meet project milestones and deadlines.
Company:
As part of the University of Chicago, the Biological Sciences Division (BSD) pursues globally impactful solutions to seemingly unsolvable challenges. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.