Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer - Advanced Molecular Detection

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• WiredPeople is seeking to hire a Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer/Developer - Advanced Molecular Detection to help support genomic surveillance and outbreak investigations for pathogens of public health concern in Florida. • The Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer/Developer will work directly with the Bioinformatics Team, serving as a bioinformatics developer and primarily support the development and implementation of a cloud computing architecture to improve and expand our current computational infrastructure.

Requirements

• A PhD in bioinformatics, genomic epidemiology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, evolutionary biology, microbial genetics, molecular biology, computer science, or related field. • Must have 5 years+ experience following your degree. • At least five years of practical and technical experience in microbial and/or public health bioinformatics. • At least five years of experience with bioinformatic development of pipelines for the phylogenetic and comparative genomic analysis of microbial organisms. • At least two years of experience with cloud computing. • Bioinformatics experience with microbiology and/or public health applications. • Experience working in a UNIX/LINUX environment and writing shell scripts. • Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Perl, R, C++, Java) and willingness to learn new languages, if necessary. • Experience developing custom scripts and executing command-line bioinformatics tools for microbial genomics comparative analysis (i.e., assembly, annotation, variant detection, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree building, pairwise SNP matrices, etc.). • Experience in phylogenetics and interpreting comparative genomic data from microbial organisms. • Experience using git/github. • Experience querying and submitting genomic data from/to NCBI databases. • Excellent verbal communication with experience presenting complex, technical data to multidisciplinary teams. • Excellent written communication and experience publishing in the relevant scientific literature.