Senior DevOps Engineer

The About Certara

Certara accelerates medicines using proprietary biosimulation software, technology and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Its clients include more than 2,000 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and regulatory agencies across 62 countries.

Based in Philadelphia, Pinnacle 21, a part of Certara Software, is a leader in clinical trial data software and services. Our vision is a clean data pipeline that ends in a successful regulatory submission. We're an established startup that builds software to streamline the drug approval process, bringing life-saving medicines to patients faster. Pinnacle 21 is a certified Great Place to Work, and we're looking for motivated talent. Come help us revolutionize clinical trials and streamline the drug approval process.

Work that matters When good drugs get delayed to the market, it's not just money that's wasted. Every day we save gives that many more patients longer, healthier lives. Work autonomously Enjoy the freedom to develop your talents without being micromanaged. We'll support you as you add to your skillset and grow to own multiple projects. Global footprint We serve a diverse community of users from around the world. Our software is the industry standard for preparing clinical trial data for regulatory submission.

Responsibilities

Our DevOps Engineers are positioned to work across a wide range of responsibilities spanning infrastructure automation, building deployment pipelines, API development, log analysis, and more. We are looking for experienced systems engineers to help maintain, automate, and innovate within our AWS infrastructure and to help lighten the increasing amount of work that comes from being a fast growing software company!

• Developing Powershell scripts to automate provisioning of Windows Servers in AWS
• Managing fleets of Windows servers in AWS using Chef
• Writing Terraform code to build, deploy and manage AWS infrastructure
  * Develop Chef recipes for managing AWS infrastructure
  * Managing CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
  * Planning, building and deploying server monitoring, alarming and dashboards in InfluxDB/Grafana/CloudWatch
  * Address, investigate and remediate production issues as needed (e.g. when alarms fire)
  * Log file analysis, troubleshooting and remediation
  * Assisting with database and server migrations
  * Assisting Engineering by managing development infrastructure, keeping testing environments up and running smoothly
  * Experienced and comfortable working in a remote position
  * Excellent written communication skills
  * Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
  * Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed
  * Knowledge of Terraform (or similar Infrastructure as Code tools and willingness to learn terraform)
  * Able to work autonomously and learn new technologies
  * Good judgement and a keen sense of responsibility. Ability to resolve technical ops problems as they arise

Qualifications

5+ years as a Sr. DevOps Engineer

• Experience with Amazon Web services (AWS)
• Knowledge of Powershell
• Experience automating tasks under Windows Server (E.G. with Chef, Ansible, Powershell, etc)
  * Knowledge of HTTP stacks (Apache/nginx/HAproxy, FastCGI, Java web applications)
  * Experience with DevOps automation tools (Chef strongly preferred, but experience with
  Ansible/Puppet would translate)
  * Knowledge of scripting languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java, Groovy, PHP, Perl.
  (Ruby/Javascript preferred)
  * Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc
  * Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration, and Linux Systems
  Fundamentals.
  * Prior experience working with Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) tooling
  * Experience with databases (PostgreSQL/SQL Server,Oracle/DynamoDB), a plus
  * Knowledge of AWS Serverless applications (AWS Lamda), a plus
  * Prior experience with Grafana / InfluxDB, a plus

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.