NIH-NCBI

Build and maintain tools and systems for software deployment, testing, and monitoring across NCBI. | Extensive experience in DevOps, scripting, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure, with proficiency in multiple programming languages and DevOps tools. | Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Senior Platform DevEx/DevOps Engineer 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. The Platform Services team builds and maintains the systems that software developers across NCBI use to ensure that they are consistently pushing and deploying high quality code that complies with Federal Standards for application security and mature code practices. We're involved in the entire development lifecycle including: • Tools for creating and setting up new projects consistently across the org. • CI pipelines and build tools for consistent expectations across languages and application frameworks • Testing frameworks and metrics to assure only quality and secure code can be sent to production. • Deployment and publishing pipelines to bring applications to their users in on-premises and cloud environments, and to provide public access to Open Source projects. • Integrations for the secure management of deployment parameters, credentials, and more. • Tooling to allow applications to communicate asynchronously, monitor performance metrics, debug live applications and much more. What you'll do As an Senior Platform DevEx engineer, you'll be a part of a highly experienced cross-functional team of around 20, building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and maintain software and web services that are used around the world. You should be prepared to work on: • GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications, in many languages, from C++ to Scala, Kotlin, and Python. • Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more. • Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams • Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more. • Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence. • Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform. What we look for While we have roles at all levels of experience, we are looking for senior proactive developers with experience building software or maintaining DevOps infrastructure and a strong interest in learning more. Required Skills • 7+ years of direct experience • Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses Python, C++, JavaScript/Typescript, some Kotlin & Scala, and small amounts of Golang and Rust. • A working knowledge of Linux systems and the command line • Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, package publishing, and containerization Preferred skills and experience • Experience developing CLI applications • Experience building and deploying web APIs to cloud services or Kubernetes • Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad, and Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift Container Platform, Anthos, GKE, AKS, EKS, etc. • Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, the EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana) or TIGK (Telegraph InfluxDB, Grafana, Kapacitor) stacks, DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, or OpsGenie. • Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD pipelines Bonus skills and experience • Experience building high availability applications • Experience configuring multi-tenent Kubernetes clusters • Familiarity with Service Mesh techlolgies like Istio or Linkerd • Familiarity with event bus technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kenesis, etc. • Familiarity with data processing and distributed computing tools like Apache Spark or Airflow • Familiarity with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault, Azure KeyVault, Google Secret Manager, etc. 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. The targeted range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Develop and maintain bioinformatics software and data retrieval systems, collaborating with scientists and developers. | Requires 5+ years handling large data, proficiency in C++, Linux, scripting languages, and experience with biological data. | Overview Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Sr. Software Developer in Bioinformatics and Big Data 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 at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work. NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more. On a technical level, NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (e.g. node, Python, Django, C++), and applications and environments (petabyte-level big data, multiple cloud providers) serve more users than the US Postal Service and see more traffic than the IRS at tax time. We embrace FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and are on the cutting edge of civic tech and cloud computing. This role calls for more than an expert coder and architect – someone who can work equally effectively with subject-matter experts, user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers, and more. Work with teams of dedicated, skilled developers, researchers, and product professionals as you build robust, flexible solutions serving dozens of production applications, APIs and services. Join us! 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. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today! Duties & Responsibilities: Responsible for the development, implementation, testing, and continued maintenance of NCBI bioinformatics software and information retrieval systems Work with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians and other developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms Learn new technologies, keep up with internal systems, and share your knowledge with the team Required qualifications: 5+ years of experience handling large amounts of data or working in a distributed computing environment Programming experience in a Linux environment Proficiency in C++ Experience with MS SQL server and relational database design and optimization Fluency in some scripting languages such as BASH, csh, Perl, or Python Preferred qualifications: 5+ years of working with genetic and biological data Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript and familiarity with their associated ecosystems Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database technology Experience with Docker or other containerization mechanisms Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit testing, integration and regression testing Experience using GitHub Experience with Cloud technologies a strong plus