Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Natera's IT Infrastructure & DevOps team as a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will build and manage scalable infrastructure, development tools, and cloud-based systems using technologies like AWS, VMware, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Collaborate with internal and external teams to optimize systems design and operations, guide DevOps practices, and participate in architectural decisions. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, 8+ years of relevant experience, and strong expertise in AWS, Linux/Unix, Python scripting, and CI/CD pipelines. Preferred qualifications include experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and Atlassian applications. Natera offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as paid time off and 401k benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, business or technical field, or equivalent
• Minimum of 8 years of related relevant experience
• Strong Experience with AWS
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration
• Experience with Python and Shell scripting
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible
• Practical experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with Docker
• Practical experience managing applications deployed using Docker in Cloud
• Experience with container orchestration tools
• Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resourcing, network issues to application stack traces
• Strong communication skills. Be able to justify and stand for the proper solution

Responsibilities

• Work tightly with groups within and external to IT for best overall systems design and operations
• Work closely with customers in all phases of SDLC to investigate areas of improvement and eliminate bottlenecks
• Guide and encourage the team and our customers to follow DevOps practices
• Participate in operations efforts and be a point person for infrastructure activities
• Build and deploy cloud-based infrastructure to support the business
• Build or extend tools for monitoring applications and underlying infrastructure, and ensure critical applications are monitored in the right ways
• Develop automation and CI/CD processes to enable teams to build, test, deploy, manage, configure, secure, scale and monitor their applications using the latest technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and others
• Participate in architectural decisions to help improve the quality of our infrastructure and applications
• Configure and manage development tools such as Atlassian Bitbucket, Jenkins, and others
• Be ready to respond to a team or business critical incident in a timely manner. (Share an on-call rotation)

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years proven success in Information Technology (IT)
• 4 years proven success in DevOps and Environment Deployment Automation leadership
• 3 years proven success in project/program management
• 5 years’ experience working in a technology based global enterprise, bio/pharma tech
• Experience with Atlassian applications
• Experience programming in Python or other OOP languages
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GCP

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Generous employee referral program