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Department
10211 Hospital - Developing Brain Re
Pay Range
$69,035.20 - $115,065.60
The R&D DevOps Engineer is involved in the full life cycle of an application and is a critical team member of an agile R&D development process. This position works closely with IT and research team members to understand the stakeholder requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions in support of research and innovation at Children's Research Institute (CRI). These solutions must be aligned with program and IT strategies and be in compliance with the Children's National architectural standards. Other responsibilities include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, architecting, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, performing quality reviews, managing operations and triaging and fixing operational issues. The R&D DevOps Engineer reports to a senior R&D DevOps Engineer or principal investigator.
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, bioinformatics, data science or applicable engineering or science discipline. (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
0 years
0–3 years of programming experience. (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Working knowledge of at least one programming language.
Comfort with frequent, incremental code, testing and deployment.
Ability to adjust to constant business change, including new requirements, evolving goals and strategies and emerging technologies.
Ability to interact, develop, engineer and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with research teams, vendors, collaborators and all levels of Children's staff.
Functional Accountabilities
Responsible Conduct of Research
- Consistently demonstrates adherence to the standards for the responsible conduct of research.
- Plans, conducts and manages research projects within federal and institutional regulations and policies under the direction of the principal investigator.
- Uses research funds and resources appropriately.
- Maintains confidentiality of data as required.
- Meets all annual job-related training and compliance requirements.
Project Planning
- Participates in project planning processes, including creating and sharing development estimates.
- Assesses client needs, using a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting and managing changes) in order to develop business requirements.
- Writes and communicates business requirements and functional specifications for the implementation of client solutions.
Application Development
- Develops/builds IT solutions to meet business requirements and build test cases, test scenarios and scripts.
- Codes and documents custom test automation frameworks. Assists with setup and maintenance of test environments for both manual and automated testing.
- Deploys new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment.
Production Support
- Assists in production support and performs ongoing routine application maintenance tasks.
- Performs script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations.
- Documents functions and changes to new or modified modules and test activities/results.
Performance and Research Management
- Provides training to interns and assists in the direction of intern work as needed.
- Assists in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems.
- Ensures code review as part of QI/QA.
- Assists in defining DevOps and quality guidelines and standards.
- Ensures all applications are documented according to standards.
- Promotes effective use of information technology by educating users on system functionality and training.
The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.
Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.
Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
