Register Your Interest - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About us

Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models multimodal patient data and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero used by researchers clinicians and drug developers to better understand biology validate scientific hypotheses and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.

This is not a live job opening but by registering your interest youll be on our radar for future opportunities in France UK and Germany.

At Owkin we value care curiosity creativity and collaboration - and we appreciate that you share those values. Your interest tells us that youre passionate about using AI to transform patients lives and eager to collaborate with our talented Owkinautes. That means a lot to us.

What Happens Next

• Read the description (below) of the teams responsibilities if it resonates with you submit your interest

• Well review your submission to understand your skills interests and aspirations.

• If a relevant role opens up well be in touch to let you know.

• The timing is unpredictable - it could be weeks months or even a year. While we cant promise an immediate fit well be sure to reach out if we find a strong match.

Thank you for your interest in Owkin - we truly appreciate it and hope to connect in the future!

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

About you:

Required qualifications / experience:

• 5 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 Kubernetes and Ansible
• Experience in deploying and maintaining on-premises environments
• Good knowledge of Linux environment (system security and network)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (FluxCD ArgoCD 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
• Authorization to work legally in France

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

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.

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What we offer

• Flexible work organization
• Friendly and informal working environment
• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

• Please complete the form and submit your CV.
• 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.
• Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are unfortunately vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies including Owkin with the aim of obtaining personal sensitive or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individuals desire to obtain a job and can sometimes feel like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below please do not provide any personal or financial information:
• Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks such as LinkedIn.
• Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @ domain) over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
• The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact please ask for them to send an email from @.
• The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including but not limited to date of birth social security numbers or bank account information;
• Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone in person or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal Telegram or Messenger
• Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.

If you think that you have been a victim of fraud

• Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn
• Check our senior team on our website the existence of the position on our website: Owkins recruitment unit at this address
• contact the following authorities:
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