• Define and drive SRE practices across the organization, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortem processes, and long-term reliability improvements across the platform • Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for availability, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency • Own and evolve our observability stack, improving monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing • Drive automation of infrastructure and operational workflows (e.g., Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes) • Lead FinOps initiatives, developing tools and insights to optimize cloud costs • Partner closely with development squads to improve service reliability, performance, and operational excellence • Influence architectural decisions and establish best practices for building resilient distributed systems • Mentor and support Infrastructure engineers, helping raise the bar on reliability, operational excellence, and technical execution • Analyze performance bottlenecks and work on solutions such as scaling strategies, service optimizations, and system debugging

• Own the infrastructure. Build, maintain, and scale the systems our product runs on, with reliability and cost-efficiency as first-class concerns • Measure the non-functional. Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for availability, latency, throughput, and scalability. Make system behavior visible and quantifiable to the whole team • Automate relentlessly. Identify and eliminate toil. Replace manual operational work with code, infrastructure-as-code, and self-healing systems • Build a seamless delivery process. Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship safely and frequently with fast feedback • Collaborate across functions. Partner closely with software engineers and QA to embed reliability and quality early - through testing strategy, deployment practices, and shared ownership of production • Apply AI to operations. Use AI/AIOps to automate remediation, surface anomalies, reduce alert noise, and improve the signal quality of monitoring, reporting, and on-call • Lead incident response. Drive blameless postmortems and turn incidents into systemic improvements • Set the standard. Define reliability and operational best practices, and mentor engineers across the team to raise the bar

• Maintain and improve infrastructure across bare-metal and distributed environments • Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible and related tools • Support CI pipelines and improve delivery processes • Work with Docker-based environments and service orchestration • Support and operate services built around PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, etcd, and Kafka • Build and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting for production services • Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements • Collaborate with developers to make services easier to deploy, support, and scale

Title: DevOps Engineer III Location: Seattle United States Job Description: The mission of the Allen Institute is to understand the principles that govern life and to advance health. Our creative and multi-dimensional teams focus on answering some of the biggest questions in bioscience. We accelerate foundational research, catalyze bold ideas, develop tools and models, and openly share our science to make a broad, transformational impact on the world. We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer whose primary responsibility will be to ensure our data and services are secure, stable, and cost effective. Our infrastructure enables multiple scientific teams collecting peta-scale biological datasets to share data with the neuroscience community adhering to FAIR standards. The ideal candidate will be familiar with a variety of both open and proprietary modern data platforms and help build a sustainable architecture that will serve the long-term needs of the institute. At the Allen Institute, we believe that science is for everyone – and should be open to everyone. We are dedicated to combating biases and reducing barriers to STEM careers more broadly. We also believe that science is better when it includes different perspectives and voices. We strive to make the Allen Institute a place where everyone feels like they belong and are empowered to do their best work in a supportive environment. We are an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our open positions. Essential Functions - Deploy and monitor core services in cloud and on-premise data centers - Add authentication and authorization layers for services and APIs - Build and deploy dashboards to monitor system health and telemetry - Build and deploy CI/CD pipelines - Help build and deploy end-to-end testing infrastructure for data processing pipelines Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Required Education and Experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent combination of degree and experience - 3+ years of relevant experience - Advanced knowledge of containerization and orchestration frameworks - Experience deploying applications at scale in the cloud - Proficient with observability and telemetry frameworks - Experience with secrets management, authentication, and authorization frameworks - Proficient with Python and bash scripting languages - Experience working with Linux Operating Systems Preferred Education and Experience - Advanced degree and AWS professional certifications (S3, ECS, EC2, and serverless services) - Experience with deploying Docker containers to Kubernetes clusters - Experience with Cloud IaaC (terraform or CDK) - Experience deploying authentication and authorization frameworks for cloud resources (SSO, SAML, etc.) - Experience automating workflows with GitHub actions - Experience deploying Grafana, logging servers, metrics servers, etc. - Teamwork and communication skills operating in an Agile environment Physical Demands - Fine motor movements in fingers/hands to operate computers and other office equipment Position Type/Expected Hours of Work - Occasional evening and weekend hours required - This role is currently able to work both remotely and onsite in a hybrid work environment. We are a Washington State employer, and the primary work location for all Allen Institute employees is 615 Westlake Ave N.; any remote work must be performed in Washington State. Additional Comments - **Please note, this opportunity offers relocation assistance** - **Please note, this opportunity may offer work visa sponsorship** Annualized Salary Range - $137,050 - $171,250 * * Final salary depends on the required education for the role, experience, level of skills relevant to the role, and work location, where applicable. Benefits - Employees (and their families) are eligible to enroll in benefits per eligibility rules outlined in the Allen Institute’s Benefits Guide. These benefits include medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are also eligible to enroll in the Allen Institute’s 401k plan. Paid time off is also available as outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide.