Optibrium
Senior / Principal DevOps Engineer
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Principal DevOps Engineer
Optibrium is a technology company developing innovative software and AI solutions for drug discovery. Our solutions enable industry-leading drug research for our worldwide customer base, including many top-10 pharma and innovative biotech companies. Founded in 2009, Optibrium’s headquarters is in Cambridge, UK, and Optibrium has regional offices in Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA, USA.
Optibrium provides elegant software solutions for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. Optibrium’s lead product, StarDrop™, is a comprehensive suite of integrated software with a highly visual and user-friendly interface. StarDrop™ enables a seamless flow from the latest data through to predictive modelling and decision-making regarding the next round of synthesis and research, improving the speed, efficiency, and productivity of the discovery process. The Company’s new Augmented Chemistry™ products and services deliver ground-breaking artificial intelligence technologies that continuously learn from all available data to supplement researchers’ experience and skills.
Main Responsibilities
As a Principal DevOps Engineer at Optibrium, you will:
- Maintain and extend our existing AWS cloud-based infrastructure and the products and services it supports efficiently and effectively
- Minimise any downtime and ensure cloud-based data-recovery protocols are up-to-date and working effectively
- Ensure all cloud infrastructure, products, and services are fully patched/updated to provide the best defence against critical data loss/exfiltration (cyber-attacks, disaster events, etc.)
- Ensure our cloud-based disaster recovery plan is fully up-to-date and regularly reviewed
- Coordinate with the security working group to ensure that policies and procedures relating to the cloud infrastructure (e.g., our disaster recovery plan) remain up-to-date and regularly reviewed and are aligned/maintained to IS27001 standards
- Mentor and develop members of the team
- Work with the wider organisation to instill DevOps best practices amongst the wider organisation
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Experience and Skills
You will bring:
- A deep understanding of Docker build and ECR distribution strategies
- Advanced experience developing Kubernetes applications with deployment via Helm charts
- Experience developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Experience developing in Python
- Working knowledge of authentication and authorisation systems such as SSO, OAuth, etc.
- Understanding of AWS resources, including: EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, SSO, VPC, etc.
- Development of pipelines as code using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
- Previous experience with automated integration testing in CI/CD pipelines using Behave, Flask 8, and Coverage
- Advanced AWS monitoring, maintenance, and debugging skills
- Ability to prioritise, coordinate, and delegate in accordance with business priorities whilst progressing the DevOps Roadmap
- Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives through to completion
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Background
Founded in 2009, Optibrium has headquarters in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA. Optibrium continues to develop new products and research novel technologies to improve the drug discovery process. Optibrium works closely with its broad range of customers and collaborators, including leading global pharma, agrochemical, and flavouring companies, biotech, and academic groups.
Optibrium is an established business with strong revenues and a positive cash position. We have recently secured significant PE investment, which will be used to expand our business through exciting new innovations, markets, and, most importantly, people. Our culture is entrepreneurial – we love fostering ideas from every team member, and our daily coffee breaks have become a forum for creative thinking. Taking time to listen to and learn from each other ensures we are all working towards a collective purpose.
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