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BSD PED - Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation - Pediatric Cancer Data Commons - Software Engineering
About the Department
The Biological Sciences Division\'s \'Data for the Common Good\' (D4CG), is a rapidly growing team of experts in medicine, clinical research, public health, data standards, data infrastructure and programming, data governance, and international data sharing. Headquartered in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, Data for the Common Good works to connect and share disparate data sets in order to alter long-standing research paradigms and enable the study of new research questions that drive cures. Its signature flagship project, the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC), houses the world\'s largest set of clinical data for pediatric cancer, uniting clinical data from across five continents for almost all types of pediatric cancer. Leveraging its expertise in establishing data commons, Data for the Common Good is expanding to create similar infrastructure across other rare diseases, including monogenic diabetes and monogenic epilepsy, and rare adult cancers as well as a university-wide initiative called the Sociome, a scalable and extensible infrastructure and architecture that will ultimately assemble, quantify and organize the entirety of social context experienced by every individual.
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance our deployment processes, automate general services, refine our automated testing pipeline, and generally support our cloud infrastructure services. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in supporting automation across all platforms developed by the team, including PCDC and other disease commons, as well as the GEARBOx platform, a clinical trial matching tool. Responsibilities include participating in the design, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing applications, systems architecture, and network infrastructure. Additionally, the Senior DevOps Engineer will ensure the operation and security of all servers and networks, configure, install, maintain, and upgrade applications for the organization\'s infrastructure.
Our department follows a hybrid work structure that fosters productivity, collaboration, and employee well-being. Working from the office is encouraged for tasks that require a high degree of collaboration.
This at-will position is fully funded by contractual grant funding which is renewed under provisions set by the grantor of the contract. Employment will be contingent upon the continued receipt of these grant funds and satisfactory job performance.
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Minim m requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
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Preferred Qualifications
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Preferred Competencies
Professional experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
Professional experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and Karpenter.
Strong scripting skills, preferably with Bash or similar languages.
Experience in systems administration (e.g. Linux servers).
Experience with Python or similar scripting l