Position Summary

We are looking for a Cloud Dev Ops Engineer with a desire to build needed AWS capabilities for the RGC and contribute to the genomic medicine revolution. In this role, the candidate will be part of a team to partner with genomic scientists and senior architects to analyze technical and scientific requirements. The candidate will help design, build, and support cloud-based solutions for the processing of genomic and health records data. The Cloud Dev Ops Engineer will assist in the assessment of the trade-offs between different AWS-based solutions as they relate to the integration between external and internal systems using impact analysis. The person in this role should be able to implement cloud-based systems using different cloud technologies, and will need to communicate the results back to the technical teams and senior architects. RGC currently has multiple RHEL-based web servers running in the AWS cloud, which provide novel genomic information relevant to the focus areas of Regeneron scientists and clinical staff, and require maintenance and upgrades. RGC is also using SPARK to provide HPC compute power in the cloud for multiple types of genomic workloads at scale.Since AWS’ line of capabilities is rapidly expanding, training is important to stay up to speed with new functions being released on a regular basis. The RGC IT team also regularly attends industry conferences to stay up to date on new technologies.Responsibilities:• Provides strong focus on RGC customers for rapid and satisfactory issue resolution.• Works with corporate IT technical teams, vendor partners, other RGC staff, internal collaborators, and architects to finalize specifications related to cloud systems.• Performs testing to identify and resolve cloud and system integration issues.• Understands AWS capabilities and can identify fixes for functional gaps.• Learns new AWS functionality and finds how it can be best applied to solve RGC needs.• Examines trade-offs, helps perform impact analysis, and recommends alternatives for cloud-based IT solutions.• Implements configured systems into test & production using vendor tools.• Support and upgrade a full suite of Atlassian development tools, including Jira, Confluence, Stash, and CrowdWorks with cross-functional groups to determine root cause for any issue resolution. • Performs upgrades and testing to keep AWS security services and application stacks in strong functioning order. • Performs sytems administration of multiple Unix/Linux AWS instances; some off-hours systems support as necessary. • Works with Corporate IT Operations and Information Security to maintain desired security levels for services in the AWS cloud.• Solid understanding of AWS security and best practices, including SELinux in a RHEL environment.

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