Black Canyon Consulting

Database Architect (Cloud) for SRA

API Athena Aurora AWS Bash +24 skills

Black Canyon Consulting is hiring a Database Architect to support NCBI (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, designing and optimizing petabyte-scale, distributed cloud database systems for biomedical data resources. Day-to-day work covers partitioning/sharding, SQL tuning, replication, monitoring, and cloud database services like AWS RDS/Aurora and BigQuery. Full-time, onsite.

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Platform Ops Lead

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +32 skills

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Platform Ops Lead to lead Operations Support Engineer to join our DevOps and infrastructure team to support application developers and operations. NCBI is located in…

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Project Manager

Agile Big Data Cloud C++ Distributed Systems +5 skills

Project Manager coordinating the full SDLC of scientific and genomic data software projects for NIH's NCBI. Day to day involves Agile project coordination, tracking milestones and deliverables, balancing risks/schedules/resources, and leading cross-functional technical teams.

Senior Network Engineer

Arista Automation BGP Cisco Cloud +7 skills

Senior Network Engineer at Black Canyon Consulting, mostly onsite in Bethesda, MD supporting NIH's NCBI. Day to day: design and run high-performance Spine-and-Leaf data center networks using Arista EOS/CloudVision, VxLAN/EVPN/BGP, F5 BIG-IP load balancing, and Python automation, while mentoring junior team members.

110K – 160K $

Senior Platform Engineer (DataOps)

Agile Airflow Argo CD Artifactory AWS +36 skills

Senior engineer who builds and continuously improves an enterprise-wide DataOps platform for NCBI (NIH/NLM), creating shared tools, automated compliance pipelines, and helping developers adopt the platform. Core stack: Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization, major clouds (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kafka, and Airflow.

Senior Full Stack Developer

Accessibility Agile Angular API Big Data +15 skills

Builds and maintains user-facing Python/Django web applications supporting millions of daily users at the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The role covers backend APIs, front-end integration, automated testing, security/accessibility compliance, and mentoring junior developers on an agile team.

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Software Developer - Python/Java

Agile API CI/CD Django FHIR +9 skills

Software developer at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI's Human Variation product line (dbSNP, dbVAR, ALFA, dbGaP on FHIR) at NIH, based in Bethesda, MD and/or remote. Day to day: building high-traffic user-facing web apps and scientific data backends primarily with Python/Django, plus Java and SQL.

Full Stack Developer - Python/Django/ReactJS

Accessibility Agile Angular API Big Data +17 skills

Full stack developer building user-facing web applications, APIs, and services in Python/Django and ReactJS for the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), supporting millions of daily users. Works on an agile team delivering accessible, tested code; onsite in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

Platform Engineer (DataOps)

Agile Airflow Argo CD Artifactory AWS +36 skills

Platform Engineer (DataOps) at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI (NIH/NLM) in building an enterprise-wide DataOps platform. Day to day: developing and improving the platform, shared tools/libraries, and automated compliance pipelines using Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kafka, and Airflow.

115K – 150K $

QA Platform Engineer

Agile AKS Artifactory Azure Bitbucket +46 skills

QA Platform Engineer (DevOps) supporting NCBI at NIH: builds compliance/QA pipelines with quality gates, automated web testing (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), and CI/CD and monitoring tooling using Python/JavaScript/Java, Kubernetes, and Linux. Based in Bethesda, MD with onsite/remote flexibility.

UI/UX Developer

Agile API Big Data C++ CSS +5 skills

Builds Python/Django user-facing UI components for NIH's dbGaP data-access systems as part of a UI modernization effort, integrating them with backend APIs, applying USWDS styling, and documenting user workflows. Based at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

90K – 130K $

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Senior Cloud Systems Administrator

Automation AWS Bash Cloud CloudTrail +15 skills

Administer production multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP on-site at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH/NLM) in Bethesda, MD, covering networking, security, monitoring, and operations. The core stack is Linux/Unix systems administration with Terraform, Kubernetes, Puppet, and Python/Bash automation.

Openshift / Kubernetes Engineer

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +33 skills

DevOps/systems engineer at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI (NIH/NLM) in Bethesda, MD: building and maintaining Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, GCP (GKE/Anthos), and service mesh, while providing on-call support to internal developers. On-site with remote options.

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Operations Support Engineer - Lead

Ansible Argo CD Automation AWS Azure +32 skills

Overview Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is looking for a Lead Operations Support Engineer to join our DevOps and infrastructure team to support application developers and operations at the National Center for…

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Senior Software Developer C++ (Program Principal Engineer )

Bash Bioinformatics CI/CD Cloud Containerization +14 skills

Senior C++ developer building and maintaining bioinformatics software, sequence-annotation pipelines, and data-curation infrastructure for NIH's NCBI. Day to day involves implementing efficient bioinformatics algorithms with scientists on Linux; requires C++, MS SQL Server, and scripting (BASH/csh/Perl/Python). Onsite in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

Cloud Engineer

Active Directory API Atlassian Automation AWS +31 skills

Cloud Engineer working full-time on-site at NCBI (NIH/NLM) in Bethesda, MD, operating and developing cloud services across AWS and GCP. Day to day involves supporting developers and production services, maintaining infrastructure, and building monitoring/automation tools using Linux, cloud consoles/CLIs, and scripting languages.

Data Engineer

API Api Design AWS Bash Big Data +19 skills

Data Engineer (multiple openings) at Black Canyon Consulting supporting NCBI/NIH onsite in Bethesda, MD — building and maintaining biomedical data systems like PubMed, GenBank, and SRA. Core stack is Python, MS SQL Server, and Linux/BASH, with cloud (AWS/GCP) and bioinformatics experience preferred.

Senior Linux System Administrator

Ansible Automation AWS Bash Big Data +19 skills

Senior Linux System Administrator manages and automates UNIX infrastructure for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), handling provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and mentoring junior staff while using Puppet for configuration management and scripting in Python/Bash/Ruby/Perl.

Senior Software Developer