Senior DevOps Engineer

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Background:

At Diaceutics we believe that every patient should have access to the right treatment at the right time**.** We provide the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies with an end-to-end solution for the launch of precision medicine diagnostics enabled by DXRX – The Diagnostic Network®.

DXRX is the world’s first diagnostic commercialization platform for precision medicine, integrating multiple pipelines of real-world diagnostic testing data from a global network of laboratories.

Position Summary:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure used in the DXRX platform and for developing automated CI/CD pipelines used by the software and data teams.

You will be exposed to a wide variety of tools that we use to operate a highly automated platform. Some examples include:

• Terraform & Terragrunt is used to automate the deployment of resources in our cloud providers like AWS, Databricks, Snowflake and others.
• Kubernetes & Helm are used for orchestration of our microservices.
• Datadog is used for our logging, metrics & alerts.
• CircleCI and FluxCD make up our CI/CD system.
• Auth0, Sanity, Circle and other SaaS services are integrated into our client-facing applications.
• Airflow, dbt, Snowflake and Databricks (Spark) are used for our data pipelines.
• We regularly evaluate our technologies and change as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Code Quality & Testing: Consistently writes production-ready code that is testable and understandable, ensuring it is well-tested before deployment.
2. Systematic Debugging & Monitoring: Uses systematic debugging to diagnose issues, and tunes team monitoring based on operational data to suggest stability and performance improvements.
3. Security & Risk Management: Approaches all engineering work with a security lens, actively looking for and fixing security vulnerabilities, investigating findings, and handling risk effectively.
4. Task Management & Delivery: Breaks down and sizes tasks appropriately for continuous integration and incremental delivery, ensuring tasks are prioritized and dependencies noted.
5. Communication & Empathy: Communicates effectively in both technical and non-technical subjects, actively listens to others, and has excellent verbal and written communication skills. Empathy for customers and end users is highly valued. Collaborates effectively in a remote working environment.
6. Teamwork & Mentoring: Works to build strong relationships with teammates and stakeholders, helps overcome obstacles and resolve blockers, mentors teammates respectfully, and encourages open, constructive discussions.
7. Infrastructure Solutions: Implements efficient, scalable, and reliable infrastructure solutions leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.
8. CI/CD Pipelines: Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines to automate software and data delivery processes including building, testing, and deployment.
9. Monitoring & Reliability: Manages and monitors cloud infrastructure performance and availability, implementing proactive measures to ensure high system uptime and reliability.
10. Continuous Improvement & Documentation: Continuously improves the experience for software and data engineers, creates clear documentation, regularly thinks about team practices, suggests improvements, and stays updated with industry trends and emerging technologies related to DevOps.

Key Attributes Required:

People Skills: Ability to building exceptional internal relationships, working collaboratively to deliver business critical task and/or projects.

• Cross-functional leadership: being able to deliver Sales results through ATs
• Customer Service / External Impact: Managing those who hold full accountability for effective communication with external stakeholders and suppliers, and the impact this has on the organisation.
• Decision-Making: Proven ability to make complex decisions based on agreed frameworks and processes.
• Initiative and Independence: Demonstrates an exceptional level of innovation, and the ability to develop strategies resulting in a positive long-term impact.

Knowledge and Specialist Skills:

1. Education – Required MSc in life sciences (biology, molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, or similar areas). Postgraduate education in business desirable Experience – at least 7-10 years' experience in life sciences consulting/business development/sales and marketing management within an IVD/pharma industry
2. At least 3 years or more of line or cross functional management experience that includes resource management, training and skills development. Experience in managing sales teams.
3. Experience in healthcare, medical devices or in vitro diagnostics is desired.
4. Exceptional presentation skills, Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite,

Life at Diaceutics:

We are a multi-cultural, diverse team spanning 13 countries around the world. One thing we all have in common is that we are dedicated people who are passionate about patient outcomes. All of our employees work remotely or in a hybrid model and we collaborate together as a global community.

At Diaceutics, we live by our values, The Diaceutics EFFECT. Diaceutics community is Empowered to explore new ideas and paths, and to develop new solutions for our pharma clients and lab partners. By applying Foresight, innovative and entrepreneurial skills we can lead at the forefront of Precision Medicine. Fun is what makes life working at Diaceutics so special as it is the fuel of what we do, both internally and externally. Special care for Empathy allows us to create an open environment for working together, being listened to and understood, even when working remotely. Communication has a special place at Diaceutics, being key across all our interactions, where we assume positive intent which leads to widespread Trust across our community.

We hire smart, fun people who care about our mission and about each other. Some interesting points about us:

• Competitive salary (and attractive bonus scheme dependent on role)
• Training and development opportunities
• Remote / Virtual Working
• Flexible Working incl. Flex Day Programme
• Share Incentive Plan
• Increase of Annual Leave with tenure
• Pension
• Healthcare (including Vision and Dental) and Additional Benefits
• Life Insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Enhanced Maternity and Sick Pay Provisions
• Robust Performance Management Framework and Individual Development Plan
• Generous Staff Referral Scheme
• Dedication to positive working culture with regular health and wellbeing activities and annual company get together

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

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