[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Who We Are: SmithRx

Role Description

We are looking for an Sr. DevOps Engineer who has hands-on experience building and managing a cloud-based infrastructure. Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for development cycles in integration/continuous deployment mode, process monitoring, and more broadly, constructing a “safety culture” within the SmithRx’s DevOps practice. Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure.

• Help build and maintain a container based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable and compliant, and support the rest of the team doing the same.
• Be part of SmithRx Agile development team to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment.
• Gain a deep understanding of the challenges that SmithRx faces, technical and otherwise; collaborate with other teams to identify and carry out effective solutions.
• Work closely with our development team to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and perform root cause analysis when necessary.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure that applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind.
• Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively.
• Be a pillar of a collaborative learning culture through exploration of new technologies, application of best practices, and any other innovations you would like to experiment with.
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
• Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices.
• Understand the health regulatory space and maintain HIPAA compliant systems.
• Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization.
• Be a part of on-call PagerDuty rotations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps.
• BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field.
• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS.
• Worked as an active team member for both product development and the operations teams to provide the best DevOps practices and supported their applications with feasible approaches.
• Security first mindset, including demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated to CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles.
• Experience building and maintaining a container based infrastructure and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience a plus) and infrastructure testing strategies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging.
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
• Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred.
• Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like Redis, Redshift, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake.
• Strong scripting skills, including shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc.

Benefits

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Benefits.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 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.
• Professional development and training opportunities.