Senior DevOps & Software Engineer

Job summary

Own deployment, infrastructure, and software architecture for an open-source federated learning framework used in multi-center healthcare applications. Build CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized deployments, and develop framework extensions, including a signed audit layer and MLflow integration, while translating research requirements into production-ready systems for clinical, academic, and industrial partners. Work spans European TwinRISE and FedOps projects involving sensitive health data and clinical research.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering or DevOps background
• Three to five years of professional software development or DevOps experience
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Docker experience; Kubernetes or Docker Swarm experience is an advantage
• Python proficiency and knowledge of at least one other programming language
• Git and GitHub experience
• Experience with machine learning or computer network security
• Experience with Linux and system administration
• Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of architecture and infrastructure decisions
• Master's degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Own Fed-BioMed deployment infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, builds, packaging, and releases.
• Manage containerized deployments and infrastructure as code.
• Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting for federated learning nodes.
• Apply deployment and runtime security practices, including network isolation and access control.
• Design and implement framework extensions, including a cryptographically signed audit layer and MLflow integration.
• Translate research and partner requirements into architecture components and implementation plans.
• Contribute to the Fed-BioMed core codebase and review contributions.
• Coordinate deployments and support project partners and platform users.
• Document infrastructure, deployment procedures, and architecture decisions.
• Train stakeholders and contribute to technical project deliverables.

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