Platform Engineering Manager

Black Canyon Consulting is hiring a Platform Engineering Manager to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. The role leads a platform team that builds and improves DevSecOps, DataOps, AIOps, and observability platforms and supports developers in adopting them.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps, AIOps and Observability platform
• Develops and maintains common tools and libraries
• Evaluates new technologies and practices
• Helps NCBI developers with adoption of platform
• Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines
• Embraces agile development and continuous improvement
• Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level

Requirements:

• Project and Product management skills
• Agile process skills
• Coding skills (even if dated) in at least one programing language are required
• Kubernetes, containerization
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
• At least some understanding of Linux and networking
• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Computer Systems Engineering
• Docker
• GitOps tools: ArgoCD or equivalent
• Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform or equivalent
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
• Modern observability and logging tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk, or equivalent
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent
• Data transfer tools: AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent
• Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• Service mesh
• Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture