Cloud Dev Ops Engineer

Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading science and technology company delivering life-transforming medicines for serious diseases. Founded by physician-scientists nearly 30 years ago, our science-driven approach has resulted in six FDA-approved medicines and numerous product candidates in a range of diseases, including asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases.

We are looking for a Cloud Dev Ops Engineer with a desire to build needed AWS capabilities for the RGC and contribute to the genomic medicine revolution. In this role, the candidate will be part of a team to partner with genomic scientists and senior architects to analyze technical and scientific requirements. The candidate will help design, build, and support cloud-based solutions for the processing of genomic and health records data. The Cloud Dev Ops Engineer will assist in the assessment of the trade-offs between different AWS-based solutions as they relate to the integration between external and internal systems using impact analysis. The person in this role should be able to implement cloud-based systems using different cloud technologies, and will need to communicate the results back to the technical teams and senior architects.

* Provides strong focus on RGC customers for rapid and satisfactory issue resolution. * Works with corporate IT technical teams, vendor partners, other RGC staff, internal collaborators, and architects to finalize specifications related to cloud systems. * Performs testing to identify and resolve cloud and system integration issues. * Understands AWS capabilities and can identify fixes for functional gaps. * Learns new AWS functionality and finds how it can be best applied to solve RGC needs. * Examines trade-offs, helps perform impact analysis, and recommends alternatives for cloud-based IT solutions. * Implements configured systems into test & production using vendor tools. * Works with cross-functional groups to determine root cause for any issue resolution. * Performs upgrades and testing to keep AWS security services and application stacks in strong functioning order. * Performs sytems administration of multiple Linux; some off-hours systems support as necessary. * Works with Corporate IT to maintain desired security levels for services in the AWS cloud.

This position requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience, and a minimum of 1-2 years of AWS cloud experience. This should include: * Linux systems administration skills and experience required. * Understanding of EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, RDS, and monitoring tools required. * Knowledge of Configuration Management tool (Chef, Puppet, and Ansible) required; Ansible playbook preferred. * VPC and xGW VPC gateway management experience preferred. * Knowledge of cloud scripting tools, JSON, Python, and RESTful web services preferred. * Understanding of AD/ LDAP and familiarity with networking preferred. * Knowledge and use of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, and Stash) preferred. * Experience working with distributed & parallel computing environments a plus.