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Senior Cloud Engineer
Overview
The Research Computing group in the Harvard Medical School Department of Information Technology is seeking a talented Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong background, and preferably certification in Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on managing environments that must meet federal security standards. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for supporting the HMS IT Secure Research Computing Environment (SRCE), a FISMA certified AWS cloud infrastructure environment, enabling the groundbreaking biomedical research of some of the world’s foremost scientific investigators.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee operational activities of the SRCE – deployment, monitoring, reporting, patching, and compliance, in partnership with HMS architecture, devops and research computing teams
- Utilize best-practice cloud security designs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the secure environment
- Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for AWS based technologies
- Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom research applications using AWS
- Provide high-level support on technical computing issues to end users and developers
- Document complex technology, data protection, confidentiality, and data residency solutions
- Play a key role in the planning, implementation, and growth of the SRCE
- Drive continuous improvement of the SRCE through process, architecture, and cost-saving refinements
Typical Core Duties
- Participate fully in planning, building, configuring and running RC systems at scale
- Monitor and maintain the health and integrity of RC systems including upgrading and patching
- Design and implement robust and secure IT solutions within a fast-paced research environment
- Define and track performance metrics to ensure efficient current and future use of IT resources
- Consult to and collaborate with researchers and other key IT (e.g. network and security) and Data Center partners in a timely manner
- Build and maintain relationships with external vendor technicians and engineers
- Collaborate with other systems engineers within the RC ecosystem
- Contribute best practices documentation and knowledge transfer
- Mentor junior staff
- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of seven years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience
Additional Qualifications and Skills
- Broad knowledge of the deployment and management of RC systems (e.g. storage, cluster computing, network, database, virtualized systems)
- Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor
- Specialized knowledge in a specific technology
- Critical to this position is the ability to work independently and to make decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information all in support of the core research computing mission.
• A strong conceptual and practical understanding of cloud security controls, principles and best practices
• Experience and understanding of legal and regulatory standards (PCI, FedRAMP, CCPA, GDPR, etc.) as they pertain to a secure computing environment
• 2+ years of experience in healthcare systems and authorities operations (FISMA, FedRAMP) architecture/designs
• Experience with AWS technologies which may include IAM, EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, RedShift, S3, Glacier, Route 53, Gateways, VPCs, CloudWatch, Lambda scripts, CloudFormation, VDI, Appstream 2.0, Control Tower, Service Catalog
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate is a plus
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IT cloud projects
• Hands-on experience with distributed resource management and virtualization technologies
• Experience communicating technical issues to executive level audiences
• Experience with the following technologies is a plus:- Puppet / Foreman / Terraform
- Containerization technologies: Docker, Singularity, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS
- Open-source databases: MySQL/Mariadb, Postgres
- Scripting languages, such as Bash and Python
- GitHub and git workflows
- AWS Service Work Bench
- Qualys, Checkmarx
- Splunk
Additional Information
This Staff role may start as a remote position due to the COVID-19 pandemic and while restrictions are still in place. The current remote nature of this role is considered temporary and may change as the University continues to evaluate options. While we continue to monitor the evolving COVID-19 guidelines, local on-campus work may be expected for some roles. Harvard Medical School does support flexible schedules, subject to individual departments’ business needs.
Harvard will require COVID vaccination for all Harvard community members who will have any on-campus presence. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. More information regarding the University’s COVID vaccination requirement and exceptions may be found at the University’s “COVID-19 Vaccine Information” webpage: http://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-information/.
Please note that we are currently conducting a majority of interviews and onboarding remotely and virtually. We appreciate your understanding.
We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace culture of faculty, staff, and students with diverse backgrounds, styles, abilities, and motivations. We appreciate and leverage the capabilities, insights, and ideas of all individuals. Harvard Medical School Mission and Community Values
Harvard University offers an outstanding benefits package including:- Time Off: 3 - 4 weeks paid vacation, paid holiday break, 12 paid sick days, 12.5 paid holidays, and 3 paid personal days per year.
- Medical/Dental/Vision: We offer a variety of excellent medical plans, dental & vision plans, all coverage begins as of your start date.
- Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with full vesting after 3 years of service.
- Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive tuition assistance program, incredibly affordable classes directly at the Harvard Extension School, and discounted options through participating Harvard grad schools.
- Transportation: Harvard offers a 50% discounted MBTA pass as well as additional options to assist employees in their daily commute.
- Wellness options: Harvard offers programs and classes at little or no cost, including stress management, massages, nutrition, meditation, and complementary health services.
- Harvard access to athletic facilities, libraries, campus events, and many discounts throughout metro Boston.
The Harvard Medical School is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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Job Function
Information Technology
Location
USA - MA - Boston
Department
IT-Web and Advanced Research
Time Status
Full-time
058
Schedule
37.5 hrs. per week | Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Lead Database Developer
Overview
Harvard Medical School nurtures a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical inquiry who are on the front lines of medicine and science serving individuals and populations locally, nationally, and globally. The Information Technology Department at Harvard Medical School enables this mission by delivering secure and scalable services.
We are expanding our team. We are looking for a passionate Database Developer with diverse experience in database development and administration. The position requires you to be a self-starter and work in a small, focused team that will be responsible for architecting, designing, building, scaling, and supporting RDBMS platforms in on-prem and cloud environments. You will work collaboratively with Data Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to deliver solutions that support our mission.
Job Specific Responsibilities
- Apply depth of knowledge and experience to enable buildout of secure database environments for our cutting-edge research endeavors.
- Bring both relational and non-relational skills to help us design, build and maintain our data stores on-premises and in the cloud (AWS/Azure)
- Develop databases (schema, structures, views, stored procs)
- Manage our AWS RDS, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases
- Conquer the day-to-day operational aspects of our systems:
- Performance monitoring/tuning
- HA/DR strategies
- Backup strategies
- Query tuning
- Cloud instance/storage design, provisioning, and performance monitoring (Database PaaS)
- On-prem to cloud migrations
- Ensure the continuous availability of our mission critical systems.
- Automate routine tasks with scripts and open source tools.
Typical Core Duties
- Lead aspects of data management services which may include database and analytics platform research and design, database performance and optimization, recovery/load strategy and implementation, and data modeling
- Collaborate to prepare data verification and testing methods for data/applications loaded into the warehouse, or other data repositories, to ensure compatibility across different sources
- Code, develop, and document complex scripts integration mappings and workflows, and stored procedures
- Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting system level programs
- Troubleshoot advanced data problems and recommend appropriate action
- Create new or enhanced components of data architecture and interfaces
- Collaborate with business partners to determine needs and evaluate solutions
- Provide training to clients and staff
- May function as subject matter expert or project lead
- Actively contribute to formulation of plans and policies
- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of five years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience
Additional Qualifications and Skills
- Knowledge of information technology applications, processes, software, and equipment
- Advanced knowledge of ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading), reporting and database technologies
- Advanced communication, technical, and project management skills
- Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other related discipline preferred
- 7+ years of solid experience with designing, implementing, supporting, and scaling up database environments.
- Experience with a variety of database platforms such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL.
- Experience working with database services offered by cloud vendors (Azure and AWS) in PaaS configuration including designing, provisioning, sizing, and implementation.
- Proficiency with complex SQL
- Strong experience in optimizing and tuning databases
- Experience with large, high volume, mission-critical environments
- Experience with agile scrum and Kanban methodologies. What you will need to be successful:
- Demonstrated self-starter who can operate independently without supervision and ability to “ramp up” quickly in both technology and business processes
- Works inter-dependently toward enterprise goals and objectives by deep collaboration with the community
- Thrive in a rapid-paced environment and love new challenges, blending big picture with attention to detail
- Passion for solving business data problems.
Additional Information
This Staff role may start as a remote position due to the COVID-19 pandemic and while restrictions are still in place. The current remote nature of this role is considered temporary and may change as the University continues to evaluate options. While we continue to monitor the evolving COVID-19 guidelines, local on-campus work may be expected for some roles. Harvard Medical School does support flexible schedules, subject to individual departments’ business needs.
Harvard will require COVID vaccination for all Harvard community members who will have any on-campus presence. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. More information regarding the University’s COVID vaccination requirement and exceptions may be found at the University’s “COVID-19 Vaccine Information” webpage: http://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-information/.
Please note that we are currently conducting a majority of interviews and onboarding remotely and virtually. We appreciate your understanding.
We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace culture of faculty, staff, and students with diverse backgrounds, styles, abilities, and motivations. We appreciate and leverage the capabilities, insights, and ideas of all individuals. Harvard Medical School Mission and Community Values
Harvard University offers an outstanding benefits package including:- Time Off: 3 - 4 weeks paid vacation, paid holiday break, 12 paid sick days, 12.5 paid holidays, and 3 paid personal days per year.
- Medical/Dental/Vision: We offer a variety of excellent medical plans, dental & vision plans, all coverage begins as of your start date.
- Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with full vesting after 3 years of service.
- Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive tuition assistance program, incredibly affordable classes directly at the Harvard Extension School, and discounted options through participating Harvard grad schools.
- Transportation: Harvard offers a 50% discounted MBTA pass as well as additional options to assist employees in their daily commute.
- Wellness options: Harvard offers programs and classes at little or no cost, including stress management, massages, nutrition, meditation, and complementary health services.
- Harvard access to athletic facilities, libraries, campus events, and many discounts throughout metro Boston.
The Harvard Medical School is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent community to keep in touch and learn about future opportunities!
https://app.jobvite.com/TalentNetwork/action/campaign/w/NzM2NjU
Job Function
Information Technology
Location
USA - MA - Boston
Department
IT-Web and Advanced Research
Time Status
Full-time
058
Schedule
37.5 hrs. per week | Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.