The Smithsonian Institution (SI) is looking for a person to join its SIdora team and create a development operations (DevOps) environment. SIdora is an ever-evolving, open-source infrastructure supporting researchers, to make it easy for them to obtain and use IT resources plus support their data needs --- while making their work become a future part of the SI collections. This goal is a grand challenge and requires a creative person with strong technical skills in systems administration and application deployment who wants to constantly be learning and working at the state-of-the-art. The software is already used at SI and will soon be published under the Apache 2 license. SIdora has an interactive, Drupal-based (Islandora) “workbench.” It uses Apache Camel for integration and deploys a micro-services architecture using Apache ServiceMix with ActiveMQ that is designed to reach out to integrate with nearly anything in a lab, data center or the cloud. It uses the Fedora Repository, Solr and semantic triplestores plus it includes a 6000+ core high performance computing cluster. Docker and a full suite of DevOps tools are in its future. Strong communication skills are also essential since SIdora’s DevOps will include working with SI IT staff, researchers and to build collaborative open-source communities. This a permanent federal position located near Washington, D.C. If you are interested please apply on USAJOBS at (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/409874200).
-- Daniel Davis Technical Manager Office of Research Information System Office of the Chief Information Officer Smithsonian Institution davi...@si.edu