Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Overview

Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed. Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity. K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners. 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.

What we offer

Flexible work organization

Friendly and informal working environment

Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

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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