Cloud / Linux Engineer

Location: Germany, remote way of  working 

Duration: initially until the end of December 2023

Hours: 40h

Contract type: Freelancing 

About the department

The Surgical Process Institute (SPI) offers Digital health technologies that empower surgical teams to address variability in their ORs and to enhance their performance, by synchronizing workflows and accessing real-time insights. Combining synchronized workflows, real-life learning, and real-time insights, SPI supports surgical teams to continuously learn, communicate and collaborate, empowering them to adopt and reproduce surgical processes, to deliver consistent quality of care and efficiency in their OR.

In the Platform Experience (PX) team, we enable our product development teams to deliver world-class, production-grade healthcare products in an agile process with automated CI/CD pipelines for on-premises platform deployments. PX provides and further develops the cross-functional infrastructure services of the SPI software platform, integrates them with the product applications, and releases the final product, the SPI Platform. 

In the Implementation team, we work with our hospital customers’ IT functions to implement SPI software into the customers’ environments, including integration with user management and hospital information systems. In addition to carrying out implementations, customizations, and upgrades, we provide technical troubleshooting and problem resolution for SPI implementations.

roles and responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and operate the pipelines and tools used to build and deploy the SPI product, including the docker assembly pipeline.

• Develop, maintain, and operate the SPI command line tools used to support customer implementations, upgrades, and support and maintenance processes (e.g. backup and restore).

• Design and implement automation, tool enhancements, and documentation to support the “industrialization” of customer implementation and support processes, including by enabling customer IT self-service where appropriate.

• Perform level 3 troubleshooting of SPI installations, upgrades, and operations.

• Perform technical “discovery” of legacy customer installations containing undocumented customizations and integrations.

• Support SPI implementation project managers with clear communications of status, actions, risks, dependencies (especially on customer IT), and options.

how to succeed

The ideal candidate will have:

• You have engineered application infrastructures hands-on and delivered them in a startup culture or a corporate culture using different technology stacks and deployment architectures 

• You’ve operated software in production hands-on; You know what it takes to build robust software with a DevOps mindset; You are familiar with CI/CD pipelines 

• You are experienced in virtualization, container technology, and Linux system administration

• You’ve managed server or cloud infrastructures and have experience in virtualized infrastructure deployments

• You’re a true fan of the agile mindset and enjoy learning faster by early feedback

• You preferably earned a BSC or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Medical Technology 

• You are fluent in Linux system administration and Linux shell script programming 

• You are familiar with creating and operating DevOps pipelines. Skills in Terraform and GitLab AutoDevOps are a benefit

• You’ve proficient knowledge of composing Docker container architectures; Know-how in Kubernetes service orchestration is a benefit

• You know, how to build and operate VMware virtual infrastructures (ESXi)

• You’ve preferably hands-on skills in additional programming languages, e.g., Python, Java, Go

• Experience deploying and managing AWS (EC2) cloud infrastructures and services a benefit 

• Experience with HL7, DICOM, and NextGen/Mirth Connect a strong advantage

• You are fluent in spoken and written English, any other language each a plus

benefits

This role offers a very competitive hourly rate, a remote way of working & a supportive working environment. This contract will run initially for 10 months.

application process

We are looking to process the first round of applications within the next 2 working days.

We do not accept applications via email. 

questions

If you would like some additional information about the role please contact:  katerina.alikaridou@randstadsourceright.nl

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