Senior Technical Support Lead
Alameda, CA

Job Description

Job Description

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At Quest, we are on a continuous journey of discovery and development. It's this attitude that has made us an industry leader and the #1 Diagnostic Lab in the US. For those joining us, we offer exciting and fast moving career opportunities where you can affect change at a rate unheard of in many organizations of our size and scope. While we invest in and develop technology to drive our innovations, our ongoing success relies on our people.

As a Senior Technical Support Lead, you will work for the world leader in the industry, with a career where you will have the opportunity to collaborate and affect change while expanding your leadership skills and technical knowledge. You can make a real impact in a market that is growing and developing.

Job responsibilities:

* Collaborate with senior leaders, business partners, architects, project managers, developers and IT Infrastructure colleagues throughout development


* Defines roadmaps in collaboration with Enterprise wide functional leads


* Leads development projects to build foundation and to integrate operational systems


* Develop viable solutions to complex business requirements


* Takes lead on assessing complex issues and driving them to resolution


* Serves as primary contact for vendor engagements during development phases


* Provide project estimations


* Support project manager during planning and development phases


* Provide training and guidance on complex and application concepts and related technologies


* Monitor development and production systems and resolve technical problems


* Ensure deployed products comply with established development methodologies, company policies and security standards


* Evaluate emerging technologies, development trends / methods and industry best practices


* Active contributor and participant throughout application development phases using Agile


* Gather and document requirements in use case or applicable technical specification format


* Create and execute unit test cases and support QC, load and integration testing


* Test and deploy software in development, staging and/or production environments


* Provide production support



To qualify, the ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: •

Bachelor's degree - BA or BS - or equivalent

7+ years of experience in supporting development and production applications/environments

Experience in supporting Bioinformatics environments is desired.

Below lists the required knowledge and experiences.

* UNIX shell scripting


* HPUX, Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu), AIX


* Administration of
* Perl, Python (including Conda/virtualenv) environments


* R, SAS environments


* Git


* Apache, JavaScript (or equivalent)


* Docker and Kubernetes environments





Other qualifications include the following:

* Excellent communication skills - both oral and written


* Excellent facilitation skills


* Excellent problem solving skills and proven ability to systematically debug problems and isolate root cause


* Ability to work in a matrix environment - collaborating across different IT functions



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Join us for competitive benefits and development opportunities in a progressive and supportive environment. Help us improve our service, and the experiences of our patients and colleagues. Work with us and together we can be better.

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All requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Quest Diagnostics is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.