Platform DevEx Engineer

As an Platform DevEx engineer, you'll be a part of a cross-functional team of around 20, building and maintaining tools and systems that allow developers across NCBI to build, deploy, and maintain software and web services that are used around the world.

You should be prepared to work on:

GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications, in many languages, from C++ to Scala, Kotlin, and Python.

Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more.

Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams

Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more.

Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence.

Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.

Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses Python, C++, JavaScript/Typescript, some Kotlin & Scala, and small amounts of Golang and Rust.

A working knowledge of Linux systems and the command line

Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, package publishing, and containerization