Senior DevOps Engineer

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Seeking Breakthrough Makers

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.

At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care—and your career.

CHOP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children.

We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

A Brief Overview

The Enterprise Data & Analytics Team is an essential part of the Center of Healthcare Quality & Analytics (CHQA) team within the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Its mission is to ingest, manage, and transform the enterprise’s data assets into actionable insights which improve the healthcare delivery system. The Enterprise Data & Analytics team functions include Data Engineering, Application Development, Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Analytics Services (Visualization, Process Improvement, and Business Analysis) and Advanced Analytics.

This position would primarily focus on implementing DevOps principles through agile/lean/continuous delivery methods to operationalize Data and analytics platform and products.

What You Will Do

• Establish best practices for managing infrastructure as code.
• Build and manage on premise and cloud data/analytics platforms and products.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and improve speed of delivery.
• Identify opportunities for improvements and automation opportunities.
• Ensure service reliability and service availability to ensure adequate service levels.
• Build and maintain Continuous Delivery and Continuous integration pipelines for data and analytics products.
• Perform incident and problem management.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Partner with data analysts, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to obtain a holistic understanding of each team’s needs and translate into infrastructure and tooling that enables a DevOps culture.
• Work independently and effectively manages time across multiple priorities and projects.
• Make recommendations about platform adoption, including technology integrations, application servers, libraries, and frameworks.
• Participate in a shared production on-call support model.
• Be a critical part of a scrum team in an agile environment, ensuring the team successfully meets its deliverables each sprint
• Serve as a mentor for all Data Engineers.
• Must possess critical thinking and creative problem solving skills along with the ability to communicate well with stakeholders throughout the organization

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Master’s Degree Computer Science, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least six (6) years Managing data and analytics infrastructure such as Hadoop/Spark clusters, SQL/No SQL data stores and/or application hosting platforms. Required and
• At least one (1) year Experience working with at least one of the public cloud platforms such AWS/Azure/GCP. Required
• At least eight (8) years managing data and analytics infrastructure such as Hadoop/Spark clusters, SQL/No SQL data stores and/or application hosting platforms Preferred and
• At least two (2) years working with at least one of the public cloud platforms such AWS/Azure/GCP. Preferred

Skills And Abilities

• Good hands on experience with Linux (RHEL/Debian) operating system
• Good understanding of Distributed computing, Scalable architectures and micro services architecture
• Hands on experience in establishing and governing code based CI/CD pipelines using job automation platforms such as Jenkins.
• Experience with at least one of the infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.,
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
• Deep understanding of Operating system concepts and networking concepts.
• Ability to code with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, groovy etc.,
• Experience with Container Orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.,
• Experience with big data toolset: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, sqoop etc.
• Basic knowledge of data integration tools: DBT, Informatica, MS Integration Services etc.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: IBM Streams, Flume, Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience consuming and building APIs
• Experience utilizing Agile methodology for development

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.

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