Remote Senior DevOps Database Engineer

Company: KForce
Location: Plano
Posted on: June 22, 2022

Job Description:

DescriptionKforce's client, a growing Pharmaceutical Company in Plano, TX that is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Senior DevOps Database Engineer to work as part of the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics team. We are working directly with the Hiring Manager on this exclusive search assignment. This company offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, annual bonus and Stock/RSU's.Summary:The selected candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary and highly innovative team designing and implementing tools to support our drug discovery research efforts. Work will include Docker-based web services delivering rich data-driven user-interfaces for the interrogation of complex biological and chemical data.Responsibilities:* Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for a wide variety of legacy and contemporary applications* Identify and implement areas of automation to streamline software operations* No current CI/CD, will come in and automate deployment and testing process* Formulate and create database structures for various applications* Investigate existing database architecture to help propose steps for migrating into contemporary technologies* Create pipelines for generating testing, staging, and production environments* Implement monitoring software* Build a consolidated error tracking system (e.g., in CloudWatch)* Handle a lot of R/D data in relational database and in the cloud/AWS* Stack is Angular/Node backendRequirements* Bachelor's degree; Advanced degree in related field preferred* At least 3-7+ years of related DevOps work experience* Proficient with Docker, Git, Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines, Bash, Repository management tool such as Nexus or similar* Proficient with RDBMS such as: Oracle, Postgres, MySQL and/or NoSQL* Proficient with AWS cloud technologies: VPC, EC2, S3, ECS or EKS, ECR, RDS* Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CodePipeline* Experience deploying services using AWS services and Docker* Implementation of databases* Strong Linux skills* Must have excellent communication and requirement gathering skills* An ability to be productive and successful in an intense work environment* Able to learn new technologies quickly and jump in anywhere in our stack is preferredNice to have skills but not required:* Experience with bioinformatics and genomics* Experience with GraphQL* Experience with NoSQL databases* Database architecture/performance tuning experience is a plus* Experience designing databasesKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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