DevOps Engineer 2

at  Illumina

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?
At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.
Position Summary
Illumina is one of the most successful biotech companies to create World-Class Software Solution that revolutionizes the healthcare industry. As a member of our Research and Development team in Singapore, you will have opportunity to work with the best and brightest talents in the industry from Silicon Valley, San Diego and Cambridge, UK. Our team develops the software that powers the most advanced DNA sequencers in the world. We create the Informatics ecosystem that define the genomics industry to provide the best user experience for scientists, researchers, and healthcare professional. We use the latest SW technology such as .NET Core, Restful APIs, MicroServices Architecture, Cloud Computing on AWS in our new product development.
The DevOps team is responsible for optimizing the deployment and management of Illumina’s global Cloud-based informatics assets such as BaseSpace Sequence Hub, Variant Interpreter, Trusight Software Suit, Cohort Analyzer and Correlation engine. We also provide front-line development and operational support of these assets
You will be working on various cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies managing Cloud-based enterprise applications such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud etc. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be a part of the team that provides breakthrough genomic informatics solutions worldwide to enable the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.
The ideal candidate will be a highly driven, adaptable, and results oriented. A successful candidate will have experience running MySQL and PostgreSQL servers on Linux environments in AWS production infrastructure using management tools and infrastructure as code automation.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Automation and implementation of highly available and resilient platforms in cloud.
• Implementation and maintenance of workflows and procedures to ensure consistency and auditability in a managed infrastructure.
• Maintain and extend the code base for an on-market SaaS genomic application extending the capability, improving robustness and quality, and optimizing for performance.
• Write and peer review automation code with an eye to creating a flexible, scalable codebase.
• Develop solutions to drive optimization of cloud operations around cost management, time to market, security and privacy, and delivery of worldwide capability.
• Troubleshooting and creating tools to resolve incidents.
• Work within and enforce security and regulatory compliance procedures.
• Document and communicate procedures, configurations and standards effectively.
• Apply state of the art cloud best practices (e.g. stateless applications; analytical automated logging, diagnostics, and optimization; automated “one click” creation of new geographic AWS enterprise application instances; application autoscaling; and automated testing of global cloud instances) in order to deliver toward operational objectives.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:

• Experience in running MySQL and PostgreSQL on AWS could environment.
• Programming skills – and of python, go, ruby, bash and/or various scripting
• Expertise in administration, configuration, optimization and monitoring of Linux at scale. CentOS, ubuntu and Amazon Linux are our base distributions.
• Solid understanding of networking, network routing, and trouble shooting
• Skilled in the implementation of monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, cloud watch, cloud trial, and others
• Experience with Public (AWS, Azure, or Alibaba) or Private (OpenStack. etc) cloud-based deployment and support.
• Experience with modern container systems such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Vagrant, etc. preferred.
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep-dive
• Use of large-scale data processing tools such as Hadoop, Elastic Search.
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork and work/knowledge sharing.

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Experience/Skillsets:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information

• Automation and implementation of highly available and resilient platforms in cloud.
• Implementation and maintenance of workflows and procedures to ensure consistency and auditability in a managed infrastructure.
• Maintain and extend the code base for an on-market SaaS genomic application extending the capability, improving robustness and quality, and optimizing for performance.
• Write and peer review automation code with an eye to creating a flexible, scalable codebase.
• Develop solutions to drive optimization of cloud operations around cost management, time to market, security and privacy, and delivery of worldwide capability.
• Troubleshooting and creating tools to resolve incidents.
• Work within and enforce security and regulatory compliance procedures.
• Document and communicate procedures, configurations and standards effectively.
• Apply state of the art cloud best practices (e.g. stateless applications; analytical automated logging, diagnostics, and optimization; automated “one click” creation of new geographic AWS enterprise application instances; application autoscaling; and automated testing of global cloud instances) in order to deliver toward operational objectives