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Senior Platform DevEx Engineer (DevOps) at Black Canyon Consulting | Bethesda, MD

Black Canyon ConsultingBethesda, Maryland
Hybrid Full-time $150K/yr - $250K/yr

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, along with extensive experience in CI/CD pipeline configuration, particularly with GitLab. You should be adept at working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, demonstrating excellent problem-solving skills and a commitment to delivering high-quality software solutions.

About the job

Join Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) as a Senior Platform DevEx/DevOps Engineer and play a crucial role in supporting the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This full-time position offers a hybrid work environment, allowing for both onsite and remote work at our Bethesda, MD location.

The NCBI is dedicated to advancing science and public health through the provision of free access to biomedical literature and genomic data online, ranking among the world's 400 most-visited websites. Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals who collaborate to create valuable services for researchers, healthcare providers, educators, students, and the public. Notably, the NCBI is responsible for developing and maintaining PubMed, an extensive database of over 29 million biomedical research abstracts linked to full-text literature and supporting data.

The Platform Services team is integral to our mission, ensuring that software developers at NCBI can consistently push and deploy high-quality code that adheres to federal standards for security and best coding practices. Your role will encompass the entire development lifecycle, including:

  • Creating and standardizing tools for new project setups across the organization.
  • Configuring CI pipelines and build tools to establish consistent expectations across various programming languages and frameworks.
  • Implementing testing frameworks and metrics to guarantee that only secure and quality code is deployed to production.
  • Managing deployment and publishing pipelines to deliver applications to users in both on-premises and cloud environments, while also facilitating public access to open-source projects.
  • Integrating secure management tools for deployment parameters, credentials, and more.
  • Developing necessary tooling for asynchronous communication, performance monitoring, and debugging of live applications.

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform DevEx Engineer, you will be a vital member of a seasoned cross-functional team of approximately 20 skilled professionals, focused on creating and maintaining the tools and systems that empower developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and sustain software and web services used worldwide.

About Black Canyon Consulting

Black Canyon Consulting is dedicated to enhancing scientific research and public health through innovative technology solutions. By partnering with key institutions like the NIH, we aim to drive breakthroughs in the life sciences, ensuring that vital information is accessible to those who need it most. Our culture fosters collaboration, creativity, and technical excellence.

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