Position: AWS DevOps Engineer
Company: Blackthorn Vision
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Blackthorn Vision offers you to join an international team operating in the Biotech industry!
**Part-time offer: 20-40 hours/week, 3-6 month engagement**

**Required skills/experience:**
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps engineering positions;
• 3+ years of experience with AWS;
• experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform);
• Github & Github Actions (for version control and CI/CD);
• Good English language skills – both written and verbal (Upper-Intermediate).

**Key Responsibilities:**
• Help the team identify the right building blocks and abstractions of our DevOps stack.
• Guide and teach the team how to correctly structure a modular terraform project.
• Guide and teach the team to take full advantage of AWS-managed services.
• Work hands-on together with the team on building initiatives such as: 
   a) A workflow orchestrator to define the bioinformatic pipelines/ML and ETL workloads;
   b) Cloud dev station: Quickly deploy reproducible and versioned compute environments that come out of the box with cost tracking and observability;
   c) Quickly deploying RDBMS systems/accessing through secure connections and deploying dashboards that the team can access from CLI/browser;
   d) Define a centralized storage data catalog;
   e) Help the team understand how to quickly deploy and access arbitrary web apps that have access to the internal databases and that the team can log in via browser through IaaC;
   f) Define how to ingest data from production to research properly.

**About the Project:** 
Our client is a well-funded startup based in Switzerland and was born to simplify cancer diagnosis. The mission is to give access to life-saving information to patients who have cancer. The project was started in 2021 by founders with solid backgrounds in the genetics and oncology industry. The team is passionate about changing healthcare with technology and aims to become one of the significant companies in modern cancer care. 

The client is a company providing a software platform to facilitate the adoption of liquid biopsy in routine oncological clinical care. The team is building a modern web application that clinicians can use to analyze the genetic mutations of their patient’s tumors. The backend is built to run a large-scale compute pipeline that will allow sequencing data processing alongside the compute capabilities for bioinformatic and machine learning research.

**Tech Stack of the Project:**
• Typescript / React
• Python / C++
• AWS (RDS, S3, IAM, Cloudwatch, AWS Batch, ECS, Fargate, etc.)
• Postgres (RDS)
• Terraform
• Github & Github Actions (for version control and CI/CD)