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Job Description

COMPANY:                            Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

LOCATION:                            168 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451

TITLE:                                    Engineer III, Software

HOURS:                                  Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

DUTIES:                                 •           Design, maintain and improve quality, performance, scalability and availability of 24X7 production Platform for Science and SampleManager (Software as a Service) environments in the cloud.
•           Develop, document and implement best practices for security and disaster recovery.
•           Proactively monitor services and respond to and troubleshoot issues.
•           Maintain processes, tools, and documentation in support of the customer environments.
•           Identify opportunities to implement automation and carry through on implementation.
•           Plan and perform scheduled maintenance and product upgrades.
•           Deploy new versions of Digital Science software to customer systems.
•           Author and contribute to Infrastructure Documentation and Knowledgebase.
•           Develop, implement, and maintain effective quality processes and procedures.
•           Provide training and support to technical operations teams, ensuring they understand and follow GxP regulations, QMS processes, and AWS infrastructure best practices.
•           Lead or assist in the validation of computerized systems, including AWS infrastructure, ensuring they meet GxP requirements and are appropriately qualified and validated.

Travel: Up to 10% domestic and international travel required.  Telecommuting Employee: Reports to company headquarters in Waltham, MA. Can work remotely or telecommute.                                                                                                                                   

REQUIREMENTS:                  MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study. MINIMUM Experience Requirement:  3 years of IT Systems Engineering, or related experience.  

Required knowledge or experience with:
•           GxP regulations, including GMP, GLP, and GCP, and their application to technical operations;
•           Quality Management Systems (QMS), including process development, implementation, and maintenance;
•           Computerized systems validation processes and requirements;
•           AWS cloudwatch/cloudtrail;
•           Kubernetes (AWS EKS);
•           Linux;
•           Terraform;
•           Helm;
•           Containers;
•           Cloud-providers AWS;
•           Jenkins (or other pipeline tool); and
•           Rancher (to manage the Kubernetes clusters).

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