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Senior Staff DevOps Engineer | Staff DevOps Engineer/ 2 days ago

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
$114,400 - $216,320 /yearly
Application ends: 2026-01-29

Quick Summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is hiring a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer to develop, monitor, and support the St. Jude Cloud platform, a cloud-based platform for web applications. This role requires a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience (or 6+ years with a Master's) and expertise in one or more tools from the current stack, which includes Azure Infrastructure, Terraform, Crossplane, AKS (supporting PHP, Ruby, Python), Istio, Cilium, Docker, Helm, Github Actions for CI/CD, Grafana, and Datadog. Responsibilities involve establishing infrastructure, creating CI/CD pipelines, and implementing proactive monitoring within an Agile development team. The position is based in Memphis, TN, with potential remote work for qualified candidates, offering an estimated annual salary range of $114,400 to $216,320.

Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer - St. Jude Cloud Platform

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a highly motivated Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer to develop, monitor, and support the St. Jude Cloud, a cloud-based platform for web applications. Join our world-class pediatric research hospital committed to advancing treatments and cures for pediatric catastrophic diseases.

This role involves working on an Agile development team alongside application development teams to establish necessary infrastructure, create CI/CD pipelines for code deployment, and implement proactive monitoring and alerting rules to track platform status.

The successful candidate must be aware of emerging technologies, platforms, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure the St. Jude Cloud platform maintains industry standards. Expertise in one or more areas of our current toolset is required.

Current Platform Toolset Includes:

  • Azure Infrastructure utilizing Terraform and Crossplane for Deployments.
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for Application Orchestration (supporting PHP, Ruby, and Python).
  • Istio Service Mesh and Cilium.
  • Docker and Helm.
  • Github and Actions for CI/CD.
  • Continuous Monitoring and Alerting using Grafana, Datadog, and/or other tools.

Computational Biology Department

St. Jude is a world leader in mapping the genetic landscape of pediatric cancers. The Computational Biology department offers state-of-the-art computational infrastructure, established analytical pipelines, and deep genomic analysis expertise, contributing to high-impact publications in top-tier biomedical journals.

The environment is highly interactive, offering collaborative opportunities, access to high performance computing clusters, cloud computing environments, innovative visualization tools, and mentorship.

Minimum Education

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, information science, business, or related field.
  • Master's degree preferred.

Minimum Experience

  • Minimum Requirement: Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience in computer science, data science, information science, business, or related field.
  • Experience Exception: Master's degree with 6+ years of experience in computer science, data science, information science, business, or related field.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm highly preferred.
  • Experience in Github Actions or another continuous deployment tool highly preferred.
  • Experience with Istio or another service mesh highly preferred.
  • Experience in Terraform or another IaC tool preferred.
  • Experience in Azure or another cloud platform preferred.
  • Experience in Datadog or another continuous monitoring tool preferred.
  • Exposure to FluxCD or another GitOps tool preferred.

Compensation and Location

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for the Senior Staff DevOps Engineer/Staff DevOps Engineer role is $114,400 - $216,320 per year.

This position is located in Memphis, TN. Relocation assistance is available. Remote work may be available for qualified candidates.

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