Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the construction and maintenance of a container-based infrastructure that is robust, redundant, scalable, and compliant while supporting team efforts in similar initiatives.

• Join the SmithRx Agile development team to facilitate end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management within a cloud environment.

• Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the technical and other challenges faced by SmithRx; collaborate with various teams to pinpoint and implement effective solutions.

• Collaborate closely with our development team to create and sustain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner.

• Monitor and resolve infrastructure issues, conducting root cause analysis when needed.

• Work alongside developers to ensure that applications and services are designed with scalability, reliability, and security as priorities.

• Ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability through proactive measures.

• Foster a collaborative learning environment by exploring new technologies, applying best practices, and experimenting with innovations.

• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools.

• Create custom scripts to enhance system efficiency and reduce the need for human intervention in various tasks.

• Assess application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, devise solutions, and implement them with developer assistance.

• Effectively uphold SmithRx's security program controls and best practices.

• Navigate the health regulatory landscape, ensuring that systems remain HIPAA compliant.

• Make informed decisions regarding technical trade-offs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization.

• Participate in on-call PagerDuty rotations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps.

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or a related field.

• Proven experience in deploying and monitoring web applications on AWS.

• Active team member in both product development and operations teams, providing optimal DevOps practices and support for applications with viable strategies.

• Security-focused mindset with demonstrated experience in building secure development and testing environments integrated with CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles.

• Experience in building and maintaining container-based infrastructures and working with Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience is a plus) and infrastructure testing methodologies.

• Proficient in infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, and logging.

• Skilled in fully automating CI/CD pipelines using relevant tools such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions.

• Experience in regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA is preferred.

• Knowledgeable in managing SQL and NoSQL databases, including Redis, Redshift, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake.

• Strong scripting abilities in languages such as shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive wellness benefits, including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and AD&D Insurance.

• Flexible Spending Benefits.

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program.

• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• Discretionary Paid Time Off.

• Paid Company Holidays.

• Wellness Benefits.

• Commuter Benefits.

• Paid Parental Leave benefits.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Well-stocked kitchen in office locations.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.