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Platform Systems Manager

Leads platform team building DevSecOps, DataOps, and observability platforms using Kubernetes, cloud services, and modern tools. Requires project management, agile skills, coding experience, and DevOps knowledge; manages compliance and developer adoption.

150k – 250kBethesda, MDEngineering ManagementHybrid

About the role

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manage a platform team that:
    • Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps and Observability 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

  • Project and Product management skills
  • Agile process skills
  • Coding skills (even if dated) in at least one programming language
  • Kubernetes, containerization
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services
  • Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps
  • Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure
  • At least some understanding of Linux and networking

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 (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, 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

Compensation

  • Targeted salary range: $150,000 - $250,000

Skills

KubernetesDockerGCPAWSAzureCI/CDDevOpsTerraformArgo CDPrometheusGrafanaLinuxGitOpsHashicorp VaultAgile

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