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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
OWKINParis Senior8+ years
Apply About us
Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.
Position is based in our Paris office or remotely in France.
Please submit your CV in English
About the role:
In the Engineering team at Owkin, you will be at the heart of our mission to accelerate research at scale. You will contribute to building and maintaining a robust research platform that enables our data scientists and researchers to focus on what matters most - advancing scientific discoveries.
In particular, you will:
Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services, mostly on AWS
Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability
Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning.
Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
Contribute to the design and evolution of our data architecture to support large-scale data processing while ensuring granular data access controls and security compliance
Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data
Lead initiatives involving multiple SRE team members
Collaborate with a variety of teams to offer pragmatic solutions and be accountable for the end to end execution of the SRE scope
Mentor and promote tech growth within the team
Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation.
This position is based in France; therefore, the candidate must have authorization to work legally in the country of residence.
About you
Required qualifications / experience:
8+ years of industry experience with a Masters or BS degree, in computer science, software engineering or an associated field
Strong experience with AWS cloud computing services or like (GCP, Azure, …)
Expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes
Experience in deploying and maintaining on-premises environments
Good knowledge of Linux environment (system, security and network)
Experience with CI/CD tooling (FluxCD, Github actions, …)
Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, …)
Experience in cyber security and applicable standards (in particular ISO 27001)
Fluency in English is a prerequisite; additional language skills in French would be preferred
Candidates not meeting every criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to apply.
Preferred qualifications/bonus:
Kubernetes and/or public cloud certification
Experience with maintaining high uptime services
Experience building software in a high level language, such as Python
Experience in project management
Experience with more observability solutions (ie: Datadog, NewRelic, Dash0…)
Worked in healthcare
You
enjoy working in a small, passionate team where your contributions will have a direct impact.
have a proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
value process, standards, communication, and code quality.
want to help build never-before-seen technologies.
know that you do not know everything; so you are able to ask questions and to work with a team spirit mindset.
are able to say no, and explain why.
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What we offer
Flexible work organization
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
Please complete the form and submit your CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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