DevOps Engineer

Lead innovative biomedical platform development / Collaborate with top researchers nationwide / Advance Australian life sciences Apply now to revolutionise biomedical research with the Australian BioCommons OMIX3 platform Investing in you - benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities. The University of Melbourne We take pride in our people, who all contribute to our mission to benefit society through the transformative impact of education and research. Discover more via our website and stay connected with our stories and people on LinkedIn. Your next career opportunity As a DevOps Engineer at Australian BioCommons, you'll spearhead the development of OMIX3, Australia's first integrated multi-omic analysis platform for biomedical research. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, including the Gen3 stack and AWS, to create a secure and efficient infrastructure for managing complex biological data. Your expertise will directly contribute to groundbreaking research across environmental, agricultural, and biomedical sciences. Your responsibilities will include: Administer AWS Environment: Maintain and optimise the secure AWS infrastructure hosting the Gen3-based OMIX3 platform, including Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines. Adapt and Integrate Microservices: Configure and integrate Gen3 with various analytics services, implement GA4GH standards, and customise the codebase to meet OMIX3 requirements. Collaborate with Diverse Teams: Work closely with project managers, bioinformaticians, and researchers to ensure the platform aligns with data governance frameworks and project goals. Contribute to Open Source: Push changes upstream to the Gen3 open source project, fostering innovation in the wider scientific community. You may be a great fit if: You are a skilled DevOps engineer with a strong background in cloud technologies, microservices architectures, and a passion for applying your expertise to advance biomedical research and data sharing capabilities. You may also: Possess a degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field, or have extensive industry experience. Have expertise in AWS cloud services, Linux environments, and container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker. Be experienced with CI/CD pipelines and microservices architectures, preferably with AWS CDK and Python skills. Demonstrate proficiency with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Excel in collaboration and communication, with the ability to work independently and solve complex problems. Have experience with open-source contributions and familiarity with human omics data sharing standards.

The University of Melbourne is host to the Australian BioCommons, a $20M NCRIS-funded research infrastructure program for life science research (2023-2028). It is the mission of BioCommons to: Sustain strategic leadership in the provision and use of bioinformatics and bioscience data infrastructures at a national scale Actively support life science research communities with community scale digital infrastructure developed and maintained in concert with international peer infrastructures Provide access to platforms and services that: provide sophisticated analysis capabilities, including software and hardware platforms that underpin world class science support digital asset stewardship and management, retention, integration and publication solutions as they evolve enable researchers to observe best-practice data standards, management, interoperability and publication approaches as they evolve provide enduring access to digital techniques, data and tools that are needed by world-class environmental, agricultural and biomedical research provide training and support solutions that enable the rapid and broad-based adoption of the above.