Bioinformatics DevOps Engineer - Advanced Molecular Detection

August 27

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Description

• Plan and execute whole-genome sequencing analysis, comparative genomic analysis, and other analytic research projects, establishing new standard operating procedures (SOPs) by developing custom bioinformatics pipelines/workflows. • Select and develop appropriate analysis techniques and measures and identify and implement the necessary software and databases to complete defined analytical tasks. • Develop, manage, and curate databases for analysis. • Identify, implement, and maintain data quality control, data submissions and management programs. • Lead the development and implementation of a cloud computing architecture to improve and expand our current computational infrastructure. • Provide telephonic and web based technical assistance to other bioinformaticians, laboratory staff, and epidemiologists on the use of complex data analysis techniques and methods. • Provide approved updates with analytical results from developed bioinformatic pipelines to be disseminated to laboratory and epidemiological staff. • Lead and coordinate with other bioinformaticians involved in analysis projects, including data sharing and engagement across multidisciplinary project teams. • Disseminate approved results of research projects in a wide range of venues including publications, peer reviewed journals, summaries, manuscripts, special reports, and oral/poster presentations. • Attend approved training workshops and complete a corresponding report on the training received.

Requirements

• A PhD in bioinformatics, genomic epidemiology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, evolutionary biology, microbial genetics, molecular biology, computer science, or related field. • At least five years of practical and technical experience in microbial and/or public health bioinformatics. • At least five years of experience with bioinformatic development of pipelines for the phylogenetic and comparative genomic analysis of microbial organisms. • At least two years of experience with cloud computing. • Bioinformatics experience with microbiology and/or public health applications. • Experience working in a UNIX/LINUX environment and writing shell scripts. • Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Perl, R, C++, Java) and willingness to learn new languages, if necessary. • Experience developing custom scripts and executing command-line bioinformatics tools for microbial genomics comparative analysis (i.e., assembly, annotation, variant detection, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree building, pairwise SNP matrices, etc.). • Experience in phylogenetics and interpreting comparative genomic data from microbial organisms. • Experience using git/github. • Experience querying and submitting genomic data from/to NCBI databases. • Excellent verbal communication with experience presenting complex, technical data to multidisciplinary teams. • Excellent written communication and experience publishing in the relevant scientific literature.