Staff DevOps Engineer

About the job

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary

Illumina is one of the most successful biotech companies to create World-Class Software Solution that revolutionizes the healthcare industry. As a member of our Research and Development team in Singapore, you will have opportunity to work with the best and brightest talents in the industry from Silicon Valley, San Diego and Cambridge, UK. Our team develops the software that powers the most advanced DNA sequencers in the world. We create the Informatics ecosystem that define the genomics industry to provide the best user experience for scientists, researchers, and healthcare professional. We use the latest SW technology such as .NET Core, Restful APIs, MicroServices Architecture, Cloud Computing on AWS in our new product development.

The DevOps team is responsible for optimizing the deployment and management of Illumina’s global Cloud-based Global informatics assets. We also provide front-line development and operational support ofe assets.You will be working on various cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies sunch as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Public/Private Cloud, Kubernetes, docker etc. to manage Cloud-based enterprise applications. As a DevOps Staff Engineer and a technical SME, you will be a part of the team that provides breakthrough genomic informatics solutions worldwide to enable the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.

You will bring a technical subject matter expertise on DevOps tools, continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Your charter is to collaborate with Engineering, Test, and DevOps to consolidate frameworks and automate as possible from code analysis, build, integration with test automation suites, and ultimately enabling ‘hands-off’ deployments to global AWS environments.

You will support our cloud SAAS globally as a member of our DevOps team and proactively collaborate with the US, UK and Singapore teams to ensure service continuity and security.

The successful candidate will be working on various cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, docker, Cloud etc) to manage Cloud-based enterprise applications. They will be expected to help providing breakthrough genomics informatics solutions worldwide enabling the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Automation and implementation of highly available and resilient platforms in cloud.
• Implementation and maintenance of workflows and procedures to ensure consistency and auditability in a managed infrastructure.
• Maintain and extend the code base for an on-market SaaS genomic application extending the capability, improving robustness and quality, and optimizing for performance.
• Write and peer review automation code with an eye to creating a flexible, scalable codebase.
• Develop solutions to drive optimization of cloud operations around cost management, time to market, security and privacy, and delivery of worldwide capability.
• Troubleshooting and creating tools to resolve incidents.
• Work within and enforce security and regulatory compliance procedures.
• Document and communicate procedures, configurations and standards effectively.
• Apply state of the art cloud best practices (e.g. stateless applications; analytical automated logging, diagnostics, and optimization; automated “one click” creation of new geographic AWS enterprise application instances; application autoscaling; and automated testing of global cloud instances) in order to deliver toward operational objectives.
• Be part of our follow-the-sun on call rotation.
  
  

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements

• Programming skills – and of python, go, ruby, bash and/or various scripting
• Expertise in administration, configuration, optimization and monitoring of Linux at scale. CentOS, ubuntu and Amazon Linux are our base distributions.
• Solid understanding of networking, network routing, and trouble shooting
• Skilled in the implementation of monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, cloud watch, cloud trial, and others
• Experience with Public (AWS, Azure, or Alibaba) or Private (OpenStack. etc) cloud-based deployment and support.
• Experience with modern container systems such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Vagrant, etc. preferred.
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep-dive
• Strong experience with NGINX, including setup, configuration, and optimization. Expertise in load balancing methods and technologies.
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork and work/knowledge sharing.
  
  

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Education/Experience

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree.
  
  

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.