Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps)

blackcanyonconsulting

Bethesda, Maryland · Bethesda · United States

Posted May 2, 2025

Full-time
Remote
Platform & DevOps

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps) to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite/remote at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI advances science and public health by providing free access to biomedical literature and genomic data over the web, making it one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world. NCBI's diverse staff of smart, talented, and deeply technical people collaborate to build critically valuable services for researchers, physicians, educators, students, and the general public. For example, NCBI develops and delivers PubMed, an index of over 29 million biomedical research abstracts, often with links to full-text literature and supporting data.

This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems as part of a new DataOps Platform team at NCBI. Developing an enterprise-wide DataOps platform is a new initiative at NCBI. Stepping on decades of experience in dealing with some of industry's most vital data-intensive applications, NCBI approaches solving the problems at enterprise scale using modern technologies such as Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, flexible work schedule and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Duties & Responsibilities

The DataOps Platforms team:

Develops and continuously improves DataOps platform.
Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.
Evaluates new technologies and practices.
Helps NCBI developers with adoption of platform.
Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.
Embraces agile development and continuous improvement
Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level

Required Skills:

7+ years of experience is the field
Strong coding skills in at least one programing language are required (Python, C++, ...)
Kubernetes, containerization
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub or equivalent
Apache AirFlow or equivalent
Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
Linux command-line skills

Bonus Skills:

Google Anthos
Docker
GitOps tools: ArgoCD or equivalent
Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform or equivalent
GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
Modern observability and logging tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor),
DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk, or equivalent
Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent
Data transfer tools: AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent
Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture
Experience working in Agile environment

Educational Requirements

B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering.

Benefits and Salary

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location.

If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!