Job Description

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?
At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a DevOps engineer with a focus on driving operational excellence best practices for the DevOps organization. As a member of the DevOps team, you will work directly with a global team of DevOps engineers and engineering teams to support continuous integration, testing, and delivery needs across the product organization. You will focus on building, monitoring, maintaining, and supporting critical infrastructure for these engineering teams including source code repository management, pipeline configuration, build and packaging scripts, test execution, reporting, deployment and release pipelines, and tooling. You will own process improvement initiatives to maintain code base integrity (including check-in validation rules, branch/merge processes, and defect resolution retrospectives), and will develop self-service tools and solutions for our build, test, and deployment infrastructure.

Tasks and ResponsibilitiesDesigning and orchestrating the provisioning, installation, dynamic configuration, monitoring and maintenance of services in the cloud environment Automation work to eliminate the need for manual updates and direct interventionoWork in a collaborative environment with multiple organizations across time zones Using monitoring systems to detect service and security issues and diagnose/fix service performance to achieve the highest levels of system availability, performance, and security Troubleshooting and creating tools to resolve incidents and work to ensure that service level commitments are achieved Enforce Intellectual property protections, defend against threats, enforce regulatory and compliance procedures, and support security audits Migration of legacy on-premise systems into cloud Document personal plans, methods, implementations, and/or changes Embrace new ideas that produce outstanding results for our customers through collaboration


Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:A rigorous approach to problem-solving A strong preference for collaborative teamwork The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep dive Experience with production SAAS cloud hosted environmentsand understands the core concepts of Internet protocols Experience inAWS or other public cloud-based deployment and support Programming/Languageskills -bash scripting, Python, GO, SQL, NoSQL, log query languages, or related Ability to administer, configure, optimize and monitor services and/or infrastructureat scale. CentOS, Debian,and Amazon Linux are our base distributions May administer, configure, optimize, and monitor one or more system components including:oCICD pipelines including Jenkins, Team City Large scale datasystems including Relational DB, ELK, Mongo Virtual compute systems and/or Kubernetes, Docker containers, Hadoop Messaging systems including RabbitMQ, Kafka, Service Bus Network infrastructure, cyber security controls, and/or other emerging technologies Understanding of infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation


All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Education/Experience:Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience Technical certifications in public clouds or infosec related domains



We are a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics. We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com. To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.