Company Description

Every Exelixis employee is united in an ambitious cause: to launch innovative medicines that give patients and their families hope for the future. In this pursuit, we know our employees are our most valuable asset. After operating in the challenging biotech sector for 25 years, we have a proven track record of resiliency in the face of adversity. The success of our lead product has provided a solid commercial foundation allowing us to reinvigorate our research efforts, and grow our team in areas such as Drug Discovery, Clinical Development and Commercial.

As we expand our global partnerships and further reinvest in R&D to help us discover the next breakthrough for difficult-to-treat cancers, we’re seeking to add talented, dedicated employees to power our mission. Cancer is our cause. Make it yours, too.

Summary/Job Purpose

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer, IT Core Services to support the design and creation of products and services to meet the technology needs of Exelixis. This position will work help define and design our hosting service, which includes virtual machine standards, configuration, provisioning, and ongoing operations. This position will also work with application support teams to re-define the interface between the hosting service and application installation and configuration process. This will help us define new products & services that will be used by the hosting services team as well as application support team to help build and deliver hosted applications and services. This position will also plan and implement a shift from on-prem hosting in leased data centers to leveraging AWS services in the delivery of our internal hosting service.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Clearly articulate technical architecture (current and future state diagrams, solution best practices, reference architectures, design patterns) as determined by business requirements and other factors.
• Leads key technical discussions and considerations around transformative technology from both a technical and non-technical perspective.
• Collaborate with security teams to incorporate strong security controls, apply security best practices in our code development life cycle.
• Drive product centricity by focusing on capabilities and value vs. technologies and tasks.
• Modernize traditional server hosting by adopting cloud services, designing, and evaluating technical architectures for new services and features with stakeholders and leveraging innovative and latest technology developments through new implementation and enhancements to existing ones.
• Act as the technical product owner for key hosting services, including on-prem and cloud infrastructure and automation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction to other individuals.
• Mentor junior engineer staff in technical skills development.
• Manage vendors and contractors to deliver new capabilities and implement new technologies.

Education

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and eight years of related experience; or
• Master’s degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
• PhD degree in related discipline and four years of related experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially with services related to hosting: EC2, RDS, Systems Manager, IAM, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, especially Terraform.
• Experience with virtualization platforms, especially VMWare VCenter & ESX server.
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory & Windows Server.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries