Black Canyon Consulting

Account Backend Engineer

North America

Agile Authentication CI/CD C++ DevOps +16 skills

Backend engineer maintaining and modernizing NCBI's login and MyNCBI account systems (NIH/NLM): keeping legacy authentication services stable, integrating federated identity providers, and migrating to NIH ICAM. Core stack is C++, Python/Django, and SQL on Linux, with SAML/OAuth/OIDC/JWT and Microsoft SQL Server.

Open 130d RemoteNorth AmericaMiddle

Junior/Mid Full Stack Software Engineer

AI Analytics API Authentication AWS +14 skills

Junior/mid-level full-stack engineer building production knowledge-first systems that turn fragmented scientific and enterprise data into structured, reusable knowledge assets. Day to day: React/Next.js frontends, Python GraphQL/REST backends, and Docker-based deployment/ops. Remote-first role with U.S. East Coast hours preferred, supporting Black Canyon Consulting's partner Knowledge3.

Embedded Systems Engineer (Medical Devices)

Open 61d North America

Altium C++ Embedded Software FPGA GitHub +11 skills

This role involves designing and implementing embedded systems for medical devices, bridging the gap between FPGA logic and application software. The engineer will own the full stack from board-level schematic design to Linux kernel driver development using Xilinx tools and AXI protocols.

Senior Network Engineer (Py)

Arista Authentication Automation BGP Cisco +8 skills

Senior Network Engineer supporting NIH's NCBI (National Library of Medicine) in Bethesda, MD, designing and running hybrid on-prem/cloud networks. Core tech: Arista EOS/CloudVision, F5 BIG-IP, BGP/OSPF, VxLAN/EVPN, Spine-and-Leaf, plus Python for network automation; onsite with some remote work allowed.

110K – 160K $

Senior Software Developer (C++)

API Bash Big Data Bioinformatics CI/CD +18 skills

Senior C++ developer building and maintaining bioinformatics software and biological sequence annotation/data-curation infrastructure for NCBI at NIH, working with petabyte-scale big data. Core stack is C++ on Linux with MS SQL Server and scripting (Python/Bash), plus Docker, CI/CD, and cloud.

115K – 150K $

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.

Open 130d North AmericaLead

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…

Platform Engineering Manager

Agile Argo CD Artifactory AWS Azure +35 skills

Manages a platform engineering team building an enterprise DevSecOps/DataOps and observability platform for NCBI at NIH, onsite in Bethesda, MD or remote. The stack centers on Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

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.

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timeLead

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.

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…

Open 130d North AmericaFull-timePrincipal

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