DevOps Engineer

IT@JH Technology Innovation Center (TIC) is seeking a DevOps Engineer who will help support the Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and associated DevOps infrastructure and processes for the TIC and the Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP), and help deliver complex infrastructural and application buildouts through automation and leveraging a strong Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodology. The DevOps Engineer will participate in strategic activities for geographically disparate and cross-disciplinary teams, applying solid DevOps and CI/CD methodologies to deliver new application systems, software, and new capabilities into the Johns Hopkins technology landscape.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Provisions and provides guidance for the adoption and support of Azure- and AWS-based architectural components and provide ongoing operational support of the IaC and CI/CD pipeline tools, applications, and artifact repositories.
• Helps product teams deploy end-to-end cloud solutions that leverage a variety of Microsoft Azure PaaS/IaaS technologies and supporting middleware, with a strong focus on automation. Strong site reliability engineering (SRE) practices will be incorporated into infrastructure design to support the creation of scalable and highly reliable solutions.
• Helps support the existing architecture and expansion of PMAP, providing technical and architectural guidance, augmenting existing capabilities to support new research and clinical demands, and helping evaluate emerging technologies for incorporation into the platform and its associated Centers of Excellence and customers.
• Supports long-term institutional and organizational goals by working with the TIC Leadership Team, the Director of Product Development for PMAP, the PMAP Operations Committee, and other institutional leadership to identify and prioritize deliverables based on clinical and research needs.
• Remains forward leaning by constantly evaluating emerging technologies to determine their maturity and applicability to the technology landscape, present findings and provide recommendations, and inform other critical institutional decision makers regarding technology selection.

Specific Devices, Software, Projects

• As part of the TIC/PMAP DevOps team, the DevOps Engineer will improve application infrastructure stability and multi-environment consistency through automated deployment of Kubernetes clusters including network policies, service meshes, and ingress controllers.
• Incorporates good site reliability engineering (SRE) practices by designing and incorporating robust platform monitoring and alerting capabilities, along with developing self-healing solutions for systems when possible, and improve application and platform security posture by incorporating vulnerability scanning into operations.
• Works with TIC business units to help establish consistent build and deployment processes across the TICs portfolio of Enterprise applications, Contract Development Services, and PMAP development efforts using DevOps pipelines and underlying build and lifecycle automation, while contributing and sharing foundational scripts, libraries, and other common build tech across projects.

Scale/size of area, project and/or system supported

• The scale is enterprise. All Johns Hopkins Medicine and/or all Johns Hopkins University affiliates, including international locales.
• Users: 100,000+
• Systems: 100,000+
• Complexity is at the highest.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Strong understanding of compute, network, storage and virtualization concepts.
• Working knowledge of basic cloud infrastructure and networking with a focus on high availability.
• Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services cloud management and administration including environment provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring and security
• Proven track record of delivering infrastructure deployments and cloud-native applications using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps technologies (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep).
• Experience setting up development operations and pipelines for new and existing projects and/or familiarity with version control (i.e., Git, GitHub), CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps Pipelines), build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, npm), artifact repositories (e.g., Azure Container Registry, JFrog Artifactory), monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus), and associated process automation.
• Familiarity with Git workflows, forking, branching, and tagging.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration using Kubernetes (Docker, Helm, kubectl, linkerd).
• Experience managing and using database systems (relational and NoSQL).

Work Location

• Hybrid, East Baltimore

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Five years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to data engineering tools and languages such as Apache Spark, Python, Java, and Scala.
• Familiarity with complex Data Lakehouse and data management tools, standards, and techniques that support various modes of data ingestion and curation such as: Azure Data. Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS), Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Event Hubs, and Snowflake.
• Experience in healthcare IT.
• Familiarity with the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and/or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
• Familiarity with the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) and Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (ODHSI) tooling.

Classified Title: Software Engineer
Working Title: DevOps Engineer
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE
Starting Salary Range: $71,230-$97,880-$124,510 Annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: ​​​​​​​Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​IT@JH Technology Innovation Center
Personnel area: University Administration

Total Rewards
The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

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Note: Job Postings are updated daily and remain online until filled.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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