DevOps Team Lead (GR)

A Little Bit About Us:

VarSome.com is the world’s leading website for professional human genetics. With more than 4 000 citations in scientific papers,  60 000 registered professional users, we are seeking to bring together all the human expertise in molecular genetics. VarSome Clinical is a comprehensive decision support software platform for genetic testing.

VarSome is created by Saphetor, a Switzerland-based precision medicine company with offices in Lausanne, Boston, and Athens, using bioinformatics to apply human genome data to improve health and lives worldwide. 

Saphetor is pioneering the use of big-data sequencing technology, such as exome and whole-genome sequencing, for clinical practice. We are involved in both clinical research and diagnostics, providing our clients with quality analysis and interpretation of next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data. All our services are provided over the web, and our VarSome.com website is the world’s prime reference for genetic variant interpretation.

Role Responsibilities:

• Mentor and support a team of SysAdmins and DevOps engineers. Ensure they have the tools to do their daily work, set objectives and conduct performance reviews and enable them to progress in their career path.
• Coordinate with product and project management and lead the team into prioritising, planning, estimating and delivering on time the necessary work. 
• Act as the liaison with other technology teams, to facilitate their work, align on common goals and foster a culture of collaboration.
• Coordinate planned releases and maintenance procedures, ensuring deployment processes are followed to reduce risks related to downtime or deployment failures and that changes are reviewed before being deployed to production environments.
• Continuously work for the refinement and improvement of processes related to the Devops and SysAdmin team.
• Actively participate in the design and development of automation solutions for deployment and configuration management, monitoring and logging solutions.
• Ensure that security is embedded in all steps of the team’s processes and that the team’s work is compliant with all applicable standards (IVDR, GRPS, ISO27001).
• Constantly aim to minimise the functional cost related to infrastructure and especially cloud environments by implementing appropriate solutions and strategies.
• Provide on call support according to scheduled rotation

What you will bring: 

• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins or similar), and scripting (Python, Bash)
• Ability to manage and mentor a team, set goals, and ensure collaboration between development and DevOps teams.
• Experience in process improvement, monitoring, and performance tuning to enhance software delivery.
• Understanding of security best practices, including secure coding, monitoring, and compliance requirements.
• Solid experience with Linux servers (User administration, System maintenance)
• Great experience with physical server management (Supermicro, firmware updates, IPMI admin)
• Network principles understanding similar to CCNA and hands-on experience on configuring, upgrading and managing switches and routers (Cisco)
• Experience installing, configuring and maintaining services such as MySQL, Nginx, uwsgi, etc.
• Good knowledge and experience of virtualization technologies, such as KVM, Kubernetes and Docker and monitoring and graphing tools like Nagios and Grafana
• Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
• Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, (Opnsense, HAproxy etc)
• Experience in setting up, maintaining and making use of tools available on Cloud Provides (e.g. google, amazon, etc)
• Be a flexible team player, stepping into a variety of roles
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

Your career journey with us includes, among others:

• A position in a fascinating healthcare growth domain, at the cutting edge of technology and research.
• A competitive compensation package combined with additional benefits.
• Remote work if you are based outside Athens. Hybrid 1 day per week at the office if you are based in Athens. (Our core development team is located around Athens with other developers across Europe, everybody speaks fluent English, and the company is very experienced in coordinating a regionally distributed team, using an Agile work-flow).
• Endless learning opportunities, while transferring new technologies from academics to clinical practice all over the world.

Saphetor is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and our employees, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, medical condition or disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, or marital status

In case would be interested, please attach your CV in English.