Senior Devops Engineer @ Veeva Systems

Senior Devops Engineer

Posted on 4/7/2022

INACTIVE

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud computing services for pharmaceutical companies.

Company Overview

Veep's mission is to help R&D, quality, and regulatory teams eliminate inefficiencies and bring high-quality, safe, sustainable products to market without compromising quality. The company builds cloud-based tools for pharmaceutical research.

Locations

Toronto, ON, Canada

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

AWS

Development Operations (DevOps)

Jenkins

Java

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Chef

CircleCI

CategoriesNew

DevOps & Infrastructure

Software Engineering

Requirements

5+ years in SRE or DevOps roles, with a focus on tooling, automation, and distributed systems development
8+ years of overall software industry experience
3+ years designing and implementing Kubernetes infrastructure
Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
Extensive experience building microservice architectures on Kubernetes
Designing and building applications using Container and serverless technologies
Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
Hands-on experience using Terraform and Kubernetes at scale
Experience using monitoring frameworks to monitor health and performance of infrastructure and applications
Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Salt)
Strong scripting knowledge in Python
Strong practical application development experience with Go or Java
Good to have experience in writing proposals and deriving estimations for DevOps projects
Excellent documentation and communication skills, as well as presentation and demo skills
We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better

Responsibilities

Work with our Development and Product teams to help architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
Architect Big Data workflows to be cloud-optimized
Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist alongside the business, development, and infrastructure teams
Provide deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
Suggest architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulate methodologies and best practices
Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment
Build deploy and manage CI/CD workflows which leverage GitOps practices
Build, manage, and deploy architectures using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
Develop internal tools to help facilitate DevOps workflows
Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes that Crossix engineers use to build, integrate, deploy, scale, and manage their software
Automate tasks across the full CI/CD lifecycle to create an efficient developer experience and reduce manual toil
Scale solutions from proofs-of-concept to full production systems
Promote and implement best practices in observability (monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging) and high availability within the software engineering group
Participate in an on-call rotation to mitigate site disruption
Minimize the risk of reliability-related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness
Build, Scale, and Optimize Kubernetes Infrastructureanage, and deploy architectures using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes

Veeva [NYSE: VEEV] is the leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, our customers range from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva’s software helps our customers bring medicines and therapies to patients faster.

We are the first public company to become a Public Benefit Corporation. As a PBC, we are committed to making the industries we serve more productive, and we are committed to creating high-quality employment opportunities.

Veeva is a Work Anywhere company which means that you can choose to work in the environment that works best for you - on any given day. Whether you choose to work remotely from home or work in an office - it’s up to you.

The Role

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers with a passion for automation. You will build and maintain a framework for automated performance testing. This is an opportunity to build a new automation framework using multiple technologies including Jenkins, AWS, Ansible, Python, ELK, and more.

What You’ll Do

Work with our Development and Product teams to help architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
Architect Big Data workflows to be cloud-optimized
Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist alongside the business, development, and infrastructure teams
Provide deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
Suggest architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulate methodologies and best practices
Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment
Build deploy and manage CI/CD workflows which leverage GitOps practices
Build, manage, and deploy architectures using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
Develop internal tools to help facilitate DevOps workflows
Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes that Crossix engineers use to build, integrate, deploy, scale, and manage their software
Automate tasks across the full CI/CD lifecycle to create an efficient developer experience and reduce manual toil
Scale solutions from proofs-of-concept to full production systems
Promote and implement best practices in observability (monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging) and high availability within the software engineering group
Participate in an on-call rotation to mitigate site disruption
Minimize the risk of reliability-related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness
Build, Scale, and Optimize Kubernetes Infrastructureanage, and deploy architectures using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes

Requirements

5+ years in SRE or DevOps roles, with a focus on tooling, automation, and distributed systems development
8+ years of overall software industry experience
3+ years designing and implementing Kubernetes infrastructure
Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
Extensive experience building microservice architectures on Kubernetes
Designing and building applications using Container and serverless technologies
Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
Hands-on experience using Terraform and Kubernetes at scale
Experience using monitoring frameworks to monitor health and performance of infrastructure and applications
Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Salt)
Strong scripting knowledge in Python
Strong practical application development experience with Go or Java
Good to have experience in writing proposals and deriving estimations for DevOps projects
Excellent documentation and communication skills, as well as presentation and demo skills
We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better

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Perks & Benefits

Allocations for continuous learning & development
Annual budget to donate to the non-profit of your choice
Health & wellness programs

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].