DevOps Engineer

Company Description

By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

Why join Harvard Medical School?

Harvard Medical School's mission is to nurture a diverse, inclusive community dedicated to alleviating suffering and improving health and well-being for all through excellence in teaching and learning, discovery and scholarship, and service and leadership.

You’ll be at the heart of biomedical discovery, education, and innovation, working alongside world-renowned faculty and a community dedicated to improving human health. This is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to shape the future of medicine.

Job Description

The Harvard Medical School Department of Information Technology is seeking a talented Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background focused on managing environments that must meet federal security standards. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for secure research computing environments (SRCE), a FISMA-certified AWS cloud infrastructure environment, enabling the groundbreaking biomedical research of some of the world’s foremost scientific investigators.  

Core Duties:

• Oversee operational activities of the SRCE – deployment, monitoring, reporting, patching, and compliance, in partnership with HMS infrastructure and research computing teams
• Utilize best-practice cloud security designs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the secure environment
• Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for AWS-based technologies
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom research applications using AWS
• Provide high-level support on technical computing issues to end users and developers
• Document complex technology, data protection, confidentiality, and data residency solutions
• Play a key role in the planning, implementation and growth of the SRCE
• Drive continuous improvement of the SRCE through process, architecture, and cost-saving refinements
• Participate fully in software development life cycle
• Research, design, and implement technical solutions to deliver business requirements
• Identify opportunities to improve and simplify applications portfolio and implement related enhancements
• Contribute to creation and maturing of software development best practices and new technologies
• Draw on relationship and technical skills to act as technical liaison to internal and external clients and to mentor junior staff