Junior Devops Engineer

Medidata: Conquering Diseases TogetherMedidata's unified platform, pioneering analytics, and unrivaled expertise power the development of new therapies for over 1,000 pharmaceutical companies, biotech, medical device firms, academic medical centers and contract research organizations around the world. The Medidata Clinical Cloud® connects patients, physicians and life sciences professionals. Companies on the Medidata platform are individually and collaboratively reinventing the way research is done to create smarter, more precise treatments. For more information: www.mdsol.com.We know that diverse teams win and are fully committed to selecting leaders and employees that represent the markets in which we operate. We are still led by our Co-founders, Tarek Sherif and Glen de Vries, and have global operations in US, Europe and Asia with over 2000 employees.Your Mission:To work together with Development teams and operations supporting, maintaining and improving development environments, workflows, deployments and operational processes. Communicating clearly and effectively with development teams and providing guidance and support when required.Managing, automating and supporting Continuous Integration/Delivery systems used by development teams, GoCD, Ansible Tower, etc

Design and implement workflows and processes utilizing telemetry that aids in streamlining deployments

Working with development teams to ensure steady release cadence including managing Amazon Web Service Resources and automating service and application deployments.

Your Competencies:Practical experience in using provisioning and configuration management tools (Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Saltstack, etc)

Communicative to a high degree

Strong understanding of source control management and experience with Git/Github

Strong understanding of telemetry, measuring and monitoring

Shell scripting (Python, Bash) or capability in a fundamental language (C/Go/etc) and automating as a rule

Demonstrated experience in operating, troubleshooting and debugging Cloud Services and operating system environments (Linux/Windows/OSX)

Experience in developing and releasing software products in cloud environments

Expertise with web frameworks (Web applications, Web Services, Service Oriented and Object-Oriented Architectures), and underlying network/web related protocols

Analytical problem-solving capability and the ability to work under pressure

3-5 years working in DevOps, Systems Development or Systems Administration

Your Education & Experience:Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or comparable required

Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.Medidata’s solutions have powered over 14,000 clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.Medidata Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Medidata Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Medidata Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.