# Platform DevEx Engineer

**Company:** [Black Canyon Consulting](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/blackcanyonconsulting)
**Location:** Bethesda, MD
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $115k – $150k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Kubernetes, Gitlab Ci/Cd, Linux, Ci/Cd Pipelines, Containerization, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Rust, Openshift, Anthos Argocd Istio
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Builds and maintains developer experience platform tools including GitLab CI pipelines, Kubernetes configurations, and Python applications to enable consistent builds, deployments, and monitoring for NCBI's software teams. Requires strong coding skills in languages like Python/C++, Linux familiarity, and CI/CD experience.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- GitLab CI pipeline configuration, templates, and components to build a standardized ecosystem for developers across the organization to use for their applications, in many languages, from C++ to Scala, Kotlin, and Python.
- Python applications, scripts, and libraries to provide interfaces for DevOps and customer tools to manage builds, deployments, and more.
- Kubernetes configuration templates using the YTT templating language to create and maintain customizable patterns for consistent deployments across application teams
- Debugging deployments on Kubernetes distributions like Openshift and Anthos and using plugins like ArgoCD, Istio, and more.
- Documentation knowledge bases for each component project and the DevEx platform as a whole, in READMEs and on Confluence.
- Leading smaller projects within the DevEx teams to add new capabilities to the platform.

## Required Skills

- Strong coding fluency in at least one programming language. NCBI uses **Python**, **C++**, **JavaScript/TypeScript**, some **Kotlin** & **Scala**, and small amounts of **Golang** and **Rust**.
- A working knowledge of **Linux** systems and the command line
- Familiarity with source control, **CI/CD pipelines**, package publishing, and **containerization**

## Preferred skills and experience

- Experience developing **CLI applications**
- Experience building and deploying **web APIs** to cloud services or **Kubernetes**
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools like **Kubernetes** or **Nomad**, and Kubernetes distributions like **OpenShift Container Platform**, **Anthos**, **GKE**, **AKS**, **EKS**, etc.
- Familiarity with observability tools like **Prometheus**, the **EFK** (**ElasticSearch**, **fluentd**, **Kibana**) or **TIGK** (**Telegraf**, **InfluxDB**, **Grafana**, **Kapacitor**) stacks, **DataDog**, **Sensu**, **Jaeger**, **Sentry**, or **OpsGenie**.
- Familiarity with **GitLab CI/CD pipelines**

## Bonus skills and experience

- Experience building high availability applications
- Experience configuring multi-tenant **Kubernetes** clusters
- Familiarity with **Service Mesh** technologies like **Istio** or **Linkerd**
- Familiarity with event bus technologies like **Kafka**, **RabbitMQ**, **AWS Kinesis**, etc.
- Familiarity with data processing and distributed computing tools like **Apache Spark** or **Airflow**
- Familiarity with secret management tools like **Hashicorp Vault**, **Azure KeyVault**, **Google Secret Manager**, etc.

## Benefits and Salary

Targeted range: **$115,000 - $150,000** commensurate with experience and location. Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

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