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Staff Software Engineer
IQVIA Holdings Inc.
Durham, North Carolina
IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.
The Analytics Center of Excellence
Our Analytics Center of Excellence (Analytics COE) harnesses our global healthcare insights, working closely with our clinical and therapeutic experts to power evidence-driven design, speed site activation and recruit the right patients, faster. We’re using big data and advanced analytics to derive insights that transform clinical development and bring new medicines to patients faster through successful trial delivery.
This multi-functional team is an innovation for our business, requiring entrepreneurial and independent thinking to build our capability. Unique and with a global view, this Center of Excellence is a chance to revolutionize the clinical research industry.
Job Posting Title
Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Location
Durham, NC, Warsaw,Poland
Role Summary
Thisis a senior engineer positionwithin the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE) department of the Research & Development Solutions org (R&DSIT).
This SRE is responsible for the design and implementation of ahybrid cloud strategy including both public cloud (AWS) and on-premises deploymentsto support distributed software systems that serve an array of scenarios related to clinical trials and other lines of IQVIA’s pharma/tech business.
This is a highly collaborative roleworking in partnership with peer SREs, IT groupsand software engineering teams to stand-up environments,deploy applications,establish metrics,and achieve infrastructure performance and stability targets.
The ideal candidate ismore than an infrastructure specialist but alsoan experienced software engineer and able to participate in design, developmentand leadershipactivities.
Typical Activities
Consultation and collaborationwith software development teams
Actively participate in Agile practices
Assist with infosecassessments
Work withcloud infrastructureproviders
Configure deployment automationframeworks
Establish best practicesfor consistency among software developmentteams
Continuous improvement, take proactive steps to improve product quality and processefficiency
Research current and emerging industry tools and techniques and share these findings withcolleagues
Consistently deliver robust, high-quality, reliable engineering outcomes in cross functional autonomous scrum teams
Drive curiosity and innovation
Develop automated CI/CD pipelines that deploy to both on-premises clusters and to thecloud
Design and lead engineering efforts going towards building businessapplications
Collaborate with engineers and leaders from other organizations insideIQVIA
Support the product owner by understanding business requirements and helping the team break these intostories
Lead cross-team exercises, including DevOps incident managementbridges
Lead documentation efforts for product architecture and security compliance
Lead security assessments and product readiness evaluation
Perform code reviews for work submitted by otherengineers
Mentor interns, apprentices, and other engineers
Basic Qualifications
Prospective candidates who meet most of these qualifications are encouraged to apply. A well-qualified candidate will meet all of these qualifications.
Software design and development experience
Linux experience with the ability to configure environmentsthrough the use ofsoftwaretools
Experience usingDockerto build, test and deploycontainers
Kubernetes – ability to deployapplications
Automatedprovisioning(Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Experience withCI/CDtools to build test anddeploy
Experience with coreAWSservices, uses and basic AWS architecture bestpractices
Experience using GitLab(or similar VCS)for committing, branchingandmerging
Solid understanding of microservicesand restful services
Solid understanding of relational database management systems
Strongverbal and writtencommunications skills
5+ years of relevant collaborative software engineering experience
2+ years full time engineering roles in at least two companies
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product developmentlifecycle
Experience deploying code into production through CI/CD tools (not just “CI/CD Pipeline”)
Prior experience leading engineering projects or teams
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product developmentlifecycle
Demonstrated aptitude for and interest in peermentorship
Additional Qualifications
These additional qualifications are not required. However, having any of the qualifications listed below will strengthen a candidate’s application.
Security experience (K8s, AWS, Azure)
Monitoring (Datadog)
Establishing and monitoring SLO’s, SLI’s and SLA’s(Datadog)
Experience building RESTful APIs
Prior management training (useful while this is not a management role)
At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.
IQVIA is an EEO Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled
IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIA’s Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.
Job posted: 2021-04-02