DevOps Engineer

Description

About BeVera Solutions, LLC 

BeVera Solutions, LLC is a rapidly growing public health and professional services company that provides innovative solutions to federal and state agencies. Our team supports mission-critical programs through expertise in program management, communications, acquisition, data analytics, and public health initiatives. BeVera’s CEO champions a people-first culture where every employee is valued. The company supports this commitment by offering competitive compensation and meaningful, impactful work assignments.  

Recognized as one of Atlanta’s Best Places to Work (2024 & 2025 & 2026) by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, BeVera fosters a culture of integrity, excellence, and collaboration.

Position Summary  

BeVera Solutions, LLC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support development operations within a scientific computing (SciComp) and bioinformatics environment. The DevOps Engineer will assist with GitLab administration, CI/CD pipeline development, containerization, workflow automation, scientific software deployment, and support of high-performance computing environments.

This position is well suited for a DevOps professional with experience in software development and automation who also has exposure to bioinformatics, high-performance computing (HPC), scientific computing, or data-intensive research environments.

The DevOps Engineer will work collaboratively with bioinformatics specialists, software developers, system administrators, and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability, security, automation, and reproducibility of scientific applications and computational workflows.

This position is contingent upon contract award, available funding, and applicable Government approval.

Key Responsibilities 

• Support administration of internal GitLab environments, including repositories, source control, user access, issue tracking, branching, merge requests, and change-management activities.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines for scientific and custom-developed applications.
• Support automated build, testing, security scanning, packaging, and deployment processes.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using languages such as Python, Java, Perl, Ruby, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Build, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using Docker, Singularity/Apptainer, or comparable technologies.
• Assist with the deployment and management of scientific and bioinformatics applications in Linux and high-performance computing environments.
• Support installation, upgrade, configuration, testing, and dependency management for scientific software and application modules.
• Assist with integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), free/open-source (F/OSS), and internally developed software.
• Support scientific computing tools and applications such as MicrobeTrace, MicroReact, Nextstrain, Posit Connect, and similar platforms.
• Support deployment, configuration, testing, and maintenance of Nextflow workflows.
• Assist bioinformatics teams with modernization or conversion of legacy scientific pipelines to Nextflow or other standardized workflow-management platforms.
• Support implementation of nf-core or similar scientific workflow standards where applicable.
• Implement or support automated security and vulnerability scanning using tools such as Trivy, Snyk, or comparable technologies.
• Assist with container hardening, dependency management, and remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
• Develop automation to improve software installation, deployment, configuration, testing, and environment management.
• Troubleshoot application, container, pipeline, software-dependency, and deployment issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps, bioinformatics, HPC, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and system administration teams.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, deployment instructions, configuration documentation, and standard operating procedures.

NOTE: Position Contingent upon award of contract.  This role is part of a pre-award candidate search for an upcoming federal government contract.  Employment is contingent upon BeVera Solutions receiving the contract award, final Government approval, funding, and any applicable client or contract requirements.  

Requirements

 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related technical or scientific discipline; equivalent relevant education and experience may be considered.
• Approximately 2+ years of relevant professional, internship, research, or technical experience in one or more of the following:
  • DevOps
  • Software engineering
  • Bioinformatics
  • Scientific computing
  • High-performance computing
  • Systems or infrastructure engineering
• Experience using Git or GitLab for source/version control.
• Experience developing, supporting, or working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Programming or scripting experience using one or more of the following:
  • Python
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • Bash/Shell
  • Similar programming or scripting languages
• Experience with or demonstrated knowledge of Linux-based computing environments.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Singularity/Apptainer, or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot technical issues involving software applications, development environments, or infrastructure.
• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software, infrastructure, scientific, and bioinformatics teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting bioinformatics or computational biology environments.
• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
• Familiarity with next-generation sequencing (NGS) data or bioinformatics analysis pipelines.
• Experience with Nextflow, nf-core, or another scientific workflow-management platform.
• Experience working with scientific software deployment and dependency management.
• Experience integrating COTS, open-source, or internally developed software into Linux or HPC environments.
• Experience with tools such as MicrobeTrace, MicroReact, Nextstrain, or Posit Connect.
• Experience using DevSecOps or vulnerability-scanning tools such as Trivy or Snyk.
• Familiarity with container security and application-hardening practices.
• Experience developing automated testing or deployment processes.
• Experience working within federal government, public health, scientific research, healthcare, or other regulated computing environments.

Conditions of Employment

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be able to meet applicable background investigation, suitability, and Government system-access requirements.
• Must comply with applicable cybersecurity, privacy, confidentiality, system-access, and acceptable-use requirements.
• Work location, telework eligibility, schedule, and other requirements will be determined by program and client needs.
• Employment is contingent upon contract award, funding availability, and applicable Government approval.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. An Equal Opportunity Employer. BeVera's hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.