Senior DevOps Engineer

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva Opendata is in search of a Senior DevOps Engineer with standout expertise to join our expanding team. This role is crucial for developing and maintaining a resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure to support our growth. You will play a key role in enabling Veeva Opendata to architect and implement infrastructure that underpins advanced data products and pipelines. Your charge includes crafting and expanding a large-scale data product from the ground up.

What You'll Do

• Architect and deliver scalable, highly available application solutions utilizing AWS services
• Provide in-depth software development expertise focusing on cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment, emphasizing GitOps practices
• Develop, deploy, and manage CI/CD workflows, automating tasks across the full lifecycle to enhance developer experience and efficiency
• Construct, manage, and deploy architecture utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
• Design cloud-optimized Big Data workflows
• Architect, implement and manage large-scale data pipelines using tools like Airflow, optimizing for cloud environments
• Develop the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes used by Opendata engineers for building, integrating, deploying, scaling, and managing their software
• Scale solutions from proofs-of-concept to fully operational production systems
• Recommend architectural enhancements, design, and integration solutions, and establish methodologies and best practices
• Aim to minimize the risk of reliability-related failures, focusing on durability, availability, performance, and correctness
• Play a pivotal role in driving architectural excellence by recommending enhancements, devising cutting-edge design and integration solutions, and formulating foundational methodologies and best practices

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and development of distributed systems
• Extensive experience in architecting, designing, and programming applications within an AWS Cloud environment, including serverless and container technologies
• Proficiency in designing and implementing applications using Container and serverless technologies
• Expertise in architecting highly available systems
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, and Kubernetes at scale
• Expertise in configuration management platforms
• Experience in developing in Python
• Proficient in programming in Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
• Hands-on experience with AWS EMR and AWS Glue
• Familiarity with monitoring frameworks to track infrastructure and application health and performance
• Deep knowledge of Data Lakes and Databases
• Excellent skills in proposal writing, project estimation, presentation, and documentation
• Candidate must be in the CST or EST timezone
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time

Nice to Have

• Experience with SQL, data modeling and design

Learn More

• Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva
• Engineering at Veeva

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $110,000 - $220,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].