Senior IT Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.As a Senior IT Engineer at Illumina, you will be a part of a team whose vision is to transform human health.  We really mean it.  This company has a mission that matters. Our DevOps team is responsible for optimizing the deployment and management of Illumina’s global cloud-based digital experience solutions such as Illumina.com, Ecommerce and Customer Dashboard. We also provide front-line development and operational support for these assets. You will be working on various cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies managing Cloud-based enterprise applications such as Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, CloudFormation, etc. As an IT Engineer, you will be a part of the team that provides customer-centric digital experience solutions worldwide to enable the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.  For us, Engineers are not people who are locked in a room to churn out code. We will turn to you for your deep technical expertise and innovative thinking. Our goal is for you to help us deliver awesome digital experiences. At Illumina, you will collaborate with internal partners to lead end-to-end projects.  You will own the success of delivering against project goals.  To be successful, you are experienced, collaborative, process-friendly, and able to work within timelines on multiple projects simultaneously. Illumina is investing in teams and technology.  We have a lot of exciting progress to make and we are looking for the right engineer to join the team.  Responsibilities:   Responsible for maintaining production and lower environments (Development, QA, Validation and Staging). Responsible for DevOps activities such as builds, continuous integration and deployment. Design, write and deliver software and automation to dramatically improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of infrastructure. Manage virtual and physical cloud resources as required with an overall objective of improving the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the cloud infrastructure. Compose and leverage AWS CloudFormation Templates for utilization, to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure is effectively managed. Discusses, analyzes, reviews, and resolves application environment issues with development teams. Develop a detailed understanding of application functionality and architecture. Responsible for configuring monitoring solutions which includes log monitoring, performance monitoring and outage reporting. Drafts, documents, and implements backup, recovery, and business continuity plans. Coordinate the implementation of new software and technology initiatives. Perform software installation, configuration, deployments, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Coordinate between Development, Operational and Infrastructure teams to ensure smooth environment support and release processes. Provision and manage user access and permissions to support a secure technology environment. Interface and collaborate with Developers, Hosting provider/Infrastructure Team, Database teams/DBA to debug problems end-to-end and achieve resolution. Install and manage SSL Certificates on Production and lower-level Environments. Perform database and software lifecycle activities to ensure the highest level of system performance, availability, and compliance with business requirements. Configure and Perform application backup and restore operations. Administer, maintain, develop, and implement policies and procedures for ensuring security and integrity. Continue to automate, scale, and manage cloud infrastructure. Maintain AWS Cloud Infrastructure in Optimal Configuration from both technical and budgetary perspectives. Review and enhance Operational Service Plans, Run books, known issues knowledge bases, log defects. Install, upgrade, patch, configure, troubleshoot, and administer third-party vendor tools. Work with external vendors/consultants to diagnose complex problems and drive resolution.  Requirements: 5+ years of related experience working on a DevOps role in full capacity. Expertise in administration, configuration, optimization, and monitoring of Linux at scale.  Experience with AWS cloud-based deployment and support. Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or CloudFormation. Experience with DevOps tools for building automation with TeamCity or Jenkins. Skilled in the implementation of monitoring tools like Splunk, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc. Knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as bash, Python and PowerShell. Knowledge of troubleshooting web applications and AWS infrastructure configurations. Experience working with any of the Ecommerce platforms is a plus. Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming concepts in Node.js, Java and/or.NET. Familiarity with RESTful API’s in Node.js, Java and/or .NET. Experience with modern container systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, etc. preferred. A strong preference for collaborative teamwork and work/knowledge sharing. The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep dive. A driving need to fix a problem only once.  Education:  BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or related technical degree.   Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.