DevOps Engineer

A Little bit About us

VarSome.com is the world’s leading website for professional human genetics. With more than
4 000 citations in scientific papers, 60 000 registered professional users, we are seeking to bring together all the human expertise in molecular genetics. VarSome Clinical is a comprehensive decision support software platform for genetic testing.

VarSome is created by Saphetor, a Switzerland-based precision medicine company with offices in Lausanne, Boston, and Athens, using bioinformatics to apply human genome data to improve health and lives worldwide. 

Saphetor is pioneering the use of big-data sequencing technology, such as exome and whole-genome sequencing, for clinical practice. We are involved in both clinical research and diagnostics, providing our clients with quality analysis and interpretation of next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data. All our services are provided over the web, and our VarSome.com website is the world’s prime reference for genetic variant interpretation.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who will contribute to designing, implementing, and managing a hybrid infrastructure. Also, in collaboration with other team members, one will develop automation strategies and deployment processes, becoming an integral part of the team, making every problem of the platform their own and solving them accordingly.  

Role Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain our infrastructure through automation with configuration management and infrastructure as code tooling (Ansible, Terraform)
• Work with our software engineers to design, deploy and manage our applications, running in AWS and GCP, as well as in on premises servers
• Troubleshoot production issues and assist in remediation fixes to ensure business continuity with minimum downtime
• Continuously Investigate and suggest improvements to improve performance and scalability
• Collaborate with peers and architects to ensure compliance to company standards related to security
• Design, implement and manage scalable logging and monitoring systems 

What you will bring:

• A university degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 4 years of work experience with UNIX/Linux systems, including configuration, troubleshooting, and scripting.

• Minimum 2 years of work experience with cloud deployments (GCP and/or AWS) and infrastructure as code tools
• Good experience in:
  - Automation techniques, especially Ansible and Terraform
  - Configuration management, CI/CD, and other DevOps tools
  - Containerization, such as Docker and Kubernetes 
  - Logging and monitoring systems (Grafana, Influxdb, Telegraf, ELK stack)

• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Be a flexible team player, stepping into a variety of roles
• Be curious about new technology stacks; stepping out of your comfort zone

Would be great if you also bring one or more of the following:

• GCP or AWS certifications 
• Experience with password management software.

Your career journey with us includes, among others:

• A position in a fascinating healthcare growth domain, at the cutting edge of technology and research
• A competitive compensation package combined with additional benefits 
• Remote work. Our core development team is located around Greece but we have  developers and devops engineers across Europe. Everybody speaks fluent English and the company is very experienced in coordinating a regionally distributed team, using an Agile work-flow. 
• Endless learning opportunities, while transferring new technologies from academics to clinical practice all over the world.

Saphetor is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and our employees, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, medical condition or disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, or marital status. 

In case you're interested, please attach your CV in English.