Senior DevOps Engineer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Oxford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.


Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-longread lengths.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere


Primary responsibilities include:

  • Work closely with developers to develop automated methods for deployment and maintenance of their solutions
  • Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems
  • Maintain infrastructure on premises and in cloud
  • Collaborate with infrastructure team to manage hardware
  • Working closely with developers throughout ONT to develop and enhance the software.
  • Ability to break down complex technical work into smaller manageable parts.
  • Any other duties as might be required within the remit and responsibilities of the post.
What We're Looking For...
The essential experience, knowledge and attitude for this role include:

  • Strong cloud experience (AWS Preferred, GCP or Azure)
  • Highly proficient in terraform to develop, manage complex infrastructure as code.
  • Strong Experience with Gitlab CI. Able to implement CI/CD pipeline as per DevOps best practices.
  • Strong Linux systems administration experience.
  • Experience in Application administration of DevOps Tools (GitLab, Atlassian, Artifactory etc)
  • Implement best practice security processes within the system engineering and lab facilities.
  • An advocate for best security practices in an Agile development process, suggesting code or tool improvements to the development pipelines with security in mind
  • Strong in DevOps Tools/Application Administration (Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Artifactory, Git.)
  • Software development in a highlevel language (Python, Rust, Go, etc)
  • Mixed cloud and onpremises environments
  • Deployment orchestration tools (Ansible)
  • Containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
  • Strong Scripting experience (Python & Bash)
  • Strong at Opensource monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
  • Strong problemsolving skills
  • Selfmotivated working to brief with limited supervision
The desirable experience, knowledge and attitude for this role include:

  • AWS Certification
  • Kubernetes Experience
  • Kubernetes for production services
  • Database Administration and Development (MySQL and Postgres)
  • Monitoring Metrics design
  • Multi architecture software development or packaging
  • Gitlab administration and Support
As well as technical skills, you're a motivated self-starter with a positive can-do attitude. You value teamwork and have strong communication skills with the ability to interact and engage with staff at all levels within the organisation

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of whichmake for a wonderful working environment.

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