Genmab - Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer
At Genmab, we’re committed to building extra[not]ordinary futures together, by developing antibody products and pioneering, knock-your-socks-off therapies that change the lives of patients and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. From our people who are caring, candid, and impact-driven to our business, which is innovative and rooted in science, we believe that being proudly unique, determined to be our best, and authentic is essential to fulfilling our purpose.
We are on a mission to empower the engineering community in Genmab, building an Engineering Platform rooted in next-generation infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles and pioneering model-driven operations. Our aim with the platform is to enable Genmab to run very efficient operations for high performance computing, cloud, data lakes and analytics.
In our journey, we are actively enhancing and refining Platform Engineering at Genmab. We are currently seeking an Engineer to join this initiative and assist us in further improving our platform.
The team is responsible for building and maintaining a platform that will empower engineers to build things faster. Rooted in IaC principles, we will create reusable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and support our engineers in operations and sharing code packages, to ensure our platform is the easiest, most robust, and best performing way to drive development.
In the role of Platform Engineer within the Platform Engineering team, a primary responsibility is to incorporate and advocate for robust security practices within DevOps processes. The focus is on ensuring that security becomes an integral part of the CI/CD pipeline. This position entails close collaboration with developers, operations, and security teams to foster a culture centered around security.
The Role and Responsibilities
- Lead the integration of security within the DevOps pipeline through automation, continuous monitoring, and incorporation of security controls.
- Develop scripts in Python and establish frameworks to manage security operations tasks, thus enhancing operational efficiencies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security requirements are integrated from the inception of the system design to its deployment.
- Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers.
- Contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance to enhance the security, performance, and reliability of the development and operational environment.
- Advocate modern, agile software development practices, and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, security threats and developments in DevOps, sharing knowledge with the team and continuously improving security practices.
- Develop and maintain documentation regarding the DevOps best practices.
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing code yourself.
- Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events
- Identify opportunities for innovation, expansion, and enhancement of service delivery wherever possible.
Locations
Genmab leverages the effectiveness of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are designed as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our collaboratively designed office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.
About Genmab
Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose guiding its unstoppable team to strive towards improving the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For more than 20 years, its passionate, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and leveraged translational research and data sciences, which has resulted in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators, effector function enhanced antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates. To help develop and deliver novel antibody therapies to patients, Genmab has formed 20+ strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO™) antibody medicines.
Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. and Tokyo, Japan.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering or similar.
- 7-10 years of experience in DevOps engineering with deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), Infrastructure-as-Code and Git.
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Certifications like Azure Architect Expert, AWS Architect, MS DevOps Expert, AWS DevOps Engineer or Kubernetes are a plus.
Our team
Our team culture is characterized by ambition, openness, teamwork and informality. We believe that mutual support and continuous learning are the best way forward.
About You
- You are passionate about our purpose and genuinely care about our mission to transform the lives of patients through innovative cancer treatment
- You bring rigor and excellence to all that you do. You are a fierce believer in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
- You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with diverse backgrounds
- You are determined to do and be your best and take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
- You are not afraid to grapple with the unknown and be innovative
- You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
- You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so
