DevOps Engineer

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

Grail is looking for a DevOps Engineer to lead and improve the infrastructure that software engineers rely on across all stages of our product development cycle. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with multi-functional teams including Software Engineering, IT, Clinical and Lab Operations, and Data Science to improve software development productivity and safety with new tools, automation systems, and security strategies. You will be in a position to empower the engineering team with the platforms they need as we work towards detecting cancer!

Functional Duties:
* Lead Grail’s computing infrastructure and streamline the team's ability to get stuff done.
* Streamline the development and deployment process and scale it for future software launches.
* Build tools and scripts in go, bash, python, or other languages.
* Provide input on architectural design and support a growing team of 70+ software and bioinformatics engineers.
* Be responsible for handling computational tools and permissions.
* Be an active contributor in our release engineering setup.
* Become an expert in leading our technical stack including Phabricator, Bazel, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, GCE, Kubernetes.

Required skills:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, electrical engineering, or another technical field.
* 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or system administration experience.
* Demonstrated background in leading the build environment for a fast-growing software engineering team.
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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