Senior Development Operations Engineer

Schrödinger is a leading provider of advanced molecular simulations and enterprise software solutions and services for life sciences and materials research. Schrödinger also establishes deep partnerships and collaborations with companies in such fields as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and electronics, and helped found the biotech company Nimbus Therapeutics.

- Architect and implement the infrastructure for building, testing, deploying, tuning, and troubleshooting our engineering team’s production and development systems - Advise the development team on best practices throughout the design process of their applications, to ensure that they can be delivered to manageable and highly available production environments - Communicate frequently with stakeholders to prioritize infrastructure enhancements by DevOps team - Design and manage our monitoring/alerting systems - Organize and participate in the on-call schedule process for our operations team

- 3+ years of relevant work experience: DevOps/Infrastructure, Test Automation, Systems Administration, and/or Development Experience working with modern infrastructure operations and automation tools: - server virtualization (e.g. Amazon AWS, Xen, Rackspace, VMWare) - cluster configuration (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt) - continuous integration and testing (e.g. Jenkins, Hudson, BuildBot) Proficient knowledge of and passion for the UNIX operating system: - process limits, devices - networking / http - system administration and bash - we primarily use Ubuntu/Debian, Centos/Red Hat Experience solving security problems: - certificate management, network/firewall configuration, encryption Experience working with Monitoring and Alerting Tools: - e.g. Datadog, Nagios, Zenoss Experience with a modern scripting language: - e.g. Python, Ruby Experience with the deployment and maintenance of databases: - e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB Experience with source control - e.g. GIT, SVN - Proficient interpersonal skills (oral/verbal communication), complemented by an ability to collaborate in a team environment - Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems and a willingness to learn - Ability to ask smart questions, think outside the box, and be creative Pluses: - Bachelors in CS/Engineering/related field - Experience deploying distributed web applications: - e.g. Apache, Nginx, NFS, LDAP - Experience working with containerization (e.g. Docker, Vagrant, LXC) - Advanced DBA skills - Experience with maintaining databases and database replication - Science minor or independent interest (chemistry, physics, biology, or related)