Staff DevOps Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary

Illumina is one of the most successful biotech companies to create World-Class Software Solution that revolutionizes the healthcare industry. As a member of our Research and Development team in Singapore, you will have opportunity to work with the best and brightest talents in the industry from Silicon Valley, San Diego and Cambridge, UK. Our team develops the software that powers the most advanced DNA sequencers in the world. We create the Informatics ecosystem that define the genomics industry to provide the best user experience for scientists, researchers, and healthcare professional.  We use the latest SW technology such as .NET Core, Restful APIs, MicroServices Architecture, Cloud Computing on AWS in our new product development.

This role is on a DevOps team optimizing the deployment and management of Illumina’s global cloud-based informatics assets, such as BaseSpace Sequence Hub, Illumina Connected Analytics, Illumina Connected Insights, and Correlation engine, while also providing front line development and operational support of those assets

You will bring subject matter expertise and focus on continuous integration and deployment pipelines.  Your charter is to collaborate with Engineering, Test, and DevOps to consolidate frameworks and automate as possible from code analysis, build, integration with test automation suites, and ultimately enabling ‘hands-off’ deployments to global AWS environments.

You will support our cloud SAAS globally as a member of our DevOps team and proactively collaborate with the UK and US  teams to ensure service continuity and security.   

The successful candidate will be working on various cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, docker, Cloud etc) to manage Cloud-based enterprise applications. They will be expected to help providing breakthrough genomics informatics solutions worldwide enabling the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Automation and implementation of highly available and resilient platforms in cloud.
• Implementation and maintenance of workflows and procedures to ensure consistency and auditability in a managed infrastructure.
• Maintain and extend the code base for an on-market SaaS genomic application extending the capability, improving robustness and quality, and optimizing for performance.
• Write and peer review automation code with an eye to creating a flexible, scalable codebase.
• Develop solutions to drive optimization of cloud operations around cost management, time to market, security and privacy, and delivery of worldwide capability.
• Troubleshooting and creating tools to resolve incidents.
• Work within and enforce security and regulatory compliance procedures.
• Document and communicate procedures, configurations and standards effectively.
• Apply state of the art cloud best practices (e.g. stateless applications; analytical automated logging, diagnostics, and optimization; automated “one click” creation of new geographic AWS enterprise application instances; application autoscaling; and automated testing of global cloud instances) in order to deliver toward operational objectives.
• Be part of our follow-the-sun on call rotation.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:

• Programming skills – and of python, go, ruby, bash and/or various scripting
• Hands on experience building enterprise AI solutions using LLMs, RAG architectures, and AWS Bedrock, with strong expertise in cloud native development, integrations, and production grade AI platforms.
• Expertise in administration, configuration, optimization and monitoring of Linux at scale. CentOS, ubuntu and Amazon Linux are our base distributions.
• Solid understanding of networking, network routing, and trouble shooting
• Skilled in the implementation of monitoring tools like Grafana, ELK, cloud watch, cloud trial, and others
• Experience with Public (AWS or Azure) or Private (OpenStack. etc) cloud-based deployment and support.
• Experience with modern container systems such as , Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate, etc. preferred.
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep-dive
• Use of large-scale data processing tools such as Hadoop, Elastic Search.
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork and work/knowledge sharing.

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Experience/Skillsets:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree.

We are a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics. We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com. To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants.