Senior DevOps Engineer

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

• Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct

• Participate in off-hours on-call rotation