Senior Dev Ops Engineer

## Senior Dev Ops Engineer Apply:
Hybrid:
Chicago, IL:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR35197
** Department
* * Globus Systems Operations
** About the Department
** Globus (www.globus.org) is a sustainable, non-profit unit within The University of Chicago delivering solutions to the research community worldwide. Globus develops and provides critical services that support scientific research for governmental, academic, and commercial organizations in a wide range of disciplines including life sciences, physics, and astronomy. We develop and operate commercial-quality, cloud-based software application and platform services used by 10s of thousands of researchers to manage their large–and growing–data management challenges.

We have offices located at the NBC Tower in the heart of downtown Chicago and remote employees who work-from-home. Globus, together with Globus Labs, a research group within the University of Chicago, and part of the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Labs, develop and deploy cutting edge technologies to solve new challenges facing the scientific community and enable break-through scientific discoveries.
** Job Summary
** The Globus Operations team is a 4-5 person group that designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure behind a research-computing platform used by hundreds of institutions worldwide. Globus is a hybrid solution combining AWS-hosted orchestration services with installable applications, delivering identity and access management, data transfer and sharing, and task automation as both software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
As a senior member of this small, high-autonomy team, you will ensure software development and operational best practices are effectively integrated across our services and AWS infrastructure. The team owns an unusually broad estate — an AWS Organization of roughly thirty production accounts, a golden-image pipeline producing around thirty machine images, a self-hosted monitoring platform, a centralized security-logging pipeline, and in-house compliance and security automation — all managed as code in Python, Bash, Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Ansible.

You will work both collaboratively and independently on complex issues and projects, in some cases making progress under minimal guidance. You will also embed with select software engineering teams to provide operational and infrastructure guidance on best practices.
We are looking for a senior engineer equally comfortable improving a build pipeline and debugging a production incident, and who will be a leader and educator both within and across teams.
** Responsibilities
* ** Architecture and Design:
Participate in the definition and documentation of cloud infrastructure architecture — networking, monitoring, logging, security, backup, and deployment — across production and development environments. Design new systems and tools, identify opportunities for technical improvement, and review and test solutions to ensure standards are met.
* Software Development:
Develop, test, document, and maintain high-quality software and infrastructure as code for deploying and operating Globus cloud services, in Python, Bash, Terraform, and Cloud Formation. Contribute to shared internal libraries and expand automated test coverage of operational tooling.
* Build and Release Automation:
Maintain and evolve the machine-image and deployment supply chain — Packer-built AMIs produced through AWS Code Build, published via SSM Parameter Store, KMS-encrypted and shared cross-account.
* Monitoring and Observability:
Maintain the current monitoring and alerting systems (self-hosted Nagios/NRPE with configuration generated from live AWS inventory, Cloud Watch alarms, Pager Duty…