"Senior DevOps Engineer"

Job Description

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab (LIL) seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to help imagine and build innovative software that charts the future of libraries. Collaborating with a team of engineers and researchers, you will take lead responsibility for testing, releasing, maintaining, and monitoring both high-availability production services and short-term experiments across LIL’s projects.

LIL’s portfolio includes Perma.cc, a web archiving platform, and experiments with large language models for civic knowledge problems. Located at the Harvard Law Library, LIL is a collaborative lab focused on re-envisioning libraries’ role in society.

• Design, implement, and upgrade LIL’s software infrastructure, including automation, continuous integration, monitoring, security, and disaster recovery.
• Manage LIL’s fleet of real and virtual machines on cloud hosts, data centers, and on-premise servers.
• Participate in developer meetings, strategy, and architectural decisions.
• Manage code deployments and assist with debugging and performance issues.
• Monitor and report on infrastructure costs.
• Administer technical onboarding and offboarding for staff.
• Document technical processes by owning runbooks.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: Minimum of five years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience.

Additional Qualifications and Skills: Passion for libraries, information architecture, and civic technology; desire to share work publicly; familiarity with technologies like Debian Linux, Django/Python, and AWS; strong understanding of web efficiency, aesthetics, and accessibility; experience with full product development life cycle.