Cloud and DevOps Expert

Cloud and DevOps Expert, Fresenius USA Manufacturing, Inc., a Fresenius Medical Care N.A. company, Waltham, MA (Remote)

Supports development of cloud-based applications and infrastructure, providing technical and architectural guidance, and functional supervision of external contractors executing cloud engineering. Drives cloud-based application operations management, and coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure development and use of cloud-based applications meets company business needs. Duties include:

· Partners with applications teams to ensure that computerized quality systems are compliant with Fresenius procedures, FDA Quality System Regulations, 21 CFR Part 11, and GAMP5 by providing architecture, maintenance and operation support to ensure high availability.

· Implements and improves DevOps automation and integration into cloud-based systems, such as AWS PLT LZ.

· Assists business owners/teams in defining and creating requirements, infrastructure specifications and system specifications to provide PLT LZ cloud-based infrastructure.

· Serves as a subject matter expert supporting internal teams on automation, infrastructure and development of cloud-based applications.

· Functional supervising of external contractors (IO- & AO-team) reviewing cloud engineering, systems operations and maintenance plans to ensure high-quality on-call and maintenance support for application & system owners and first level support teams.

· Enable cloud operating environment aligned with global standards & tools. Ensures compliance with internal and external industry and regulatory standards.

· Manage AWS architecture & implementation, utilizing knowledge of AWS based product Secure Cloud Foundation

· Performs and assists with cloud-based automatic testing, improved systems set-up and configuration to business ownership stakeholders.

· Escalates cloud-based application issues to supervisor/manager for resolution, as needed.

· Creates and approves Work Instructions for Windchill applications for operational tasks.

· Plans, builds, implements and automates the disaster recovery process for the Windchill production environment.

· Creates comprehensive documentation of the entire disaster recovery (DR) workflow in AWS for Windchill applications.

· Provisioning AWS resources or infrastructure for application teams on demand.

· Serve as the liaison between the Cloud team and multiple application teams in North America and EU.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or a closely related field and 5 years of experience as a Software Developer or Software QA Engineer. Must also have had 3 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement above) working with the following:

· Object oriented architecture, Oracle & MySQL databases, Linux OS and Linux scripting including automation pipelines;

· Automated testing using Selenium Framework and working with GIT version control;

· AWS Cloud including EC2, EBS, IAM and RDS as well as cloud-based project design, building, deployment, and maintenance for Windchill and ThingWorx and OrCAD applications;

· Provisioning AWS resources or infrastructure for application teams on demand and working with cloud-based databases, network traffic management and data storage solutions (RDS, Elastic Load Balancer, S3);

· Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation using AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, YAML, Bash, and Linux, as well as experience with Azure DevOps and adherence to DevOps best practices;

· Planning, developing, implementing, and automating the disaster recovery process for clustered as well as monolithic applications; and

· Windchill configurations and customizations including the integration of Windchill with other tools/software.

This position requires occasional (average of 1 per month) weekend support for AWS related tasks for application up-grades, changes or integrations. Will accept any qualified combination of education, training and/or experience.

This is a telecommuting position working from home. May reside anywhere in the United States.

Salary is $178,131 – 187,037 per year for a 40-hour work week

Fresenius Medical Care is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, national origin, age, disability, military service, or other non-merit-based factors