Senior DevOps Engineer
Harvard University2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Oversee deployment, monitoring, reporting, patching, and compliance for the secure research computing environment.
- Manage AWS-based application stacks from the operating system through custom research applications.
- Apply cloud security designs and controls to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Manage continuous integration and deployment practices for AWS technologies.
- Plan, implement, operate, and expand the secure research computing environment.
- Improve application portfolios, software development practices, system architecture, processes, and costs.
- Provide technical support to end users and developers and communicate technical issues to executive audiences.
- Document technology, data protection, confidentiality, and data residency solutions.
- Serve as a technical liaison to internal and external clients and mentor junior staff.
- Participate in the software development lifecycle and an off-hours on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
- At least two years of experience in healthcare systems and authorities operations, such as FISMA, FedRAMP, or HIPAA-regulated environment architecture and design.
- Strong conceptual and practical understanding of cloud security controls, principles, and best practices.
- Experience with legal and regulatory standards including PCI, FedRAMP, CCPA, and GDPR as they apply to secure computing environments.
- Experience with AWS technologies and large-scale enterprise IT cloud projects.
- Hands-on experience with distributed resource management and virtualization technologies.
- Ability to work independently, make timely decisions, act as a trusted advisor, and support technical teams and clients.
- AWS certification, Harvard IT Academy foundational courses or an external equivalent, and experience with the listed additional technologies are preferred or advantageous.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on day one.
- Retirement plans with university contributions, wellbeing and mental health resources, and family and caregiver support.
- Professional development opportunities including tuition assistance and reimbursement.
- Commuter benefits, discounts, and campus perks.
- Standard schedule is 35 hours per week.
- Work may be performed at a non-Harvard location or in a hybrid arrangement at the department’s discretion based on operational needs; eligible employees must work in a Harvard-registered state when outside Harvard locations.
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About Harvard University
Harvard University is a private research university that provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and conducts research across disciplines. Revenue from tuition, executive and online programs, research grants, and its endowment funds its schools and institutes, including Harvard Medical School and the Division of Medical Sciences. Founded in 1636 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it operates campus and enterprise IT systems supporting teaching, research, and administration.