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Black Canyon Consulting

Platform DevEx Engineer

Bethesda, MarylandmidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Black Canyon Consulting seeks a Platform DevEx Engineer to support NCBI at the National Library of Medicine, building and maintaining developer tools and CI/CD infrastructure used across the organization. This hybrid role involves working on GitLab pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, Python applications, and documentation to enable developers to build and deploy high-quality, secure software.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain GitLab CI pipeline configurations and templates across multiple programming languages
  • Develop Python applications and scripts for build, deployment, and DevOps management
  • Create and manage Kubernetes configuration templates using YTT templating language
  • Debug and troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments on platforms like OpenShift and Anthos
  • Lead smaller projects to add new capabilities to the DevEx platform
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and DevEx systems

What they're looking for

  • Strong programming fluency in Python, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages
  • Linux systems administration and command-line expertise
  • CI/CD pipelines, source control, containerization, and package publishing
  • GitLab CI/CD configuration and management
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
  • CLI application development
  • Cloud deployment and web API development
  • Observability and monitoring tools
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Black Canyon Consulting

Black Canyon Consulting provides security, infrastructure, and modernization services for high-traffic biomedical research platforms, particularly supporting the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health. The company is hiring for security engineers, DevSecOps specialists, full-stack developers, QA engineers, and platform engineers to build resilient, compliant systems serving millions of users across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your experience with CI/CD pipelines. Have you worked with GitLab CI specifically, and if so, what did you build or maintain?
  • Tell us about a time you debugged a deployment issue in Kubernetes or a similar container orchestration platform. How did you approach it?
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