Junior Full Stack Engineer, Limited Term (Remote)

Our Team
We are a team of educators, scientists, and software engineers who believe that the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow will be driven by transformative technology built today. Agave is a reimagined open source cloud platform integrating scientific code, data, and computational resources with collaborative technologies in a secure, interoperable environment. The Agave Platform enables research teams to work more collaboratively within their existing environments and achieve reproducible results faster.

Who You Are
Our consumers are at the forefront of open science research. You are excited to work on technology that will shape the ways in which research is conducted. You are a proactive, self-starter with an affinity for DevOps culture. You have experience building full stack web applications that wants to join our distributed team. You are interested in building an open, Science-as-a-Service platform designed to run in hybrid cloud environments. You are eager to join a team of software engineers, educators, and domain scientists in a shared mission to scale, integrate and innovate the most challenging scientific workflows so researchers are empowered to be more productive and creative at their science. A successful candidate will have excellent communication and problem-solving skills with affinity for hands-on learning in a remote work capacity.

This is an exempt Administrator position scheduled to work full-time for up to (2) two years, may be extended based on continued funding. This position is eligible for participation in our health and welfare benefits and our supplemental retirement plan.

• Build and support highly available, secure and scalable environments
• Maintain and support infrastructure for all environments
• Build and deploy CI/CD processes
  Interact and collaborate with researchers nationally and internationally to build a better platform for science

• 1 – 3 years of experience as a full stack web developer.
• Programming experience with php, python, node or other web programming languages.
• Programming experience with angular, react, or other front-end frameworks.
• Familiarity with software and security development life-cycles

• Experience with Linux containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, cri-o)
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies
• Programming experience with Java or golang

Additional desired qualifications (training provided)

• Experience with an infrastructure automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, and AWS Cloud Formation.
• Experience with Linux server administration
• Familiarity with high performance computing.
• Experience writing publications for journals and presenting work at conferences.
• Familiarity with scientific workflows and pipeline automation

Applicants for Staff and Administrator positions must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Chapman University does not sponsor applicants for Staff and Administrator positions for work visas.

The offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion and outcomes of a criminal background screening, and returning to the Office of Human Resources a signed original acceptance of the Chapman University Agreement to Arbitrate.

This is a Limited Term 2-Year Contract Appointment with opportunity to extend contingent on grant funding.