Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote - US) (copy)

Nextech is a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive developer enablement through infrastructure automation and cloud platform optimization. This role involves leading the creation of CI/CD workflows, ensuring security compliance, and mentoring junior engineers to improve the reliability and scalability of Nextech products.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure CI/CD workflows and deployment strategies that enable teams to deliver Nextech products to customers with greater speed, reliability, and confidence
• Lead the creation and maintenance of a robust Infrastructure as Code ecosystem that promotes consistency, reusability, ease of use, cost efficiency, and high engineering quality across the platform
• Embed security and compliance controls across cloud platforms, pipelines, networking, and infrastructure, partnering with engineering and security teams to ensure the secure delivery of customer‑facing products
• Lead the design and adoption of monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to support proactive performance tuning, improve system visibility, and enhance reliability for customers
• Own platform stability through on call procedures and incident response, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and continuous operational improvement to minimize customer impact and service disruption
• Design and support highly available, multi‑region architectures with strong resiliency, recoverability, and disaster recovery (DR) patterns to ensure uninterrupted customer access to Nextech products
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and performance optimization to improve efficiency, consistency, and operational excellence across environments
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers, modeling engineering best practices, and owning delivery quality across shared platform services
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to engineering teams and leadership, align platform initiatives with business priorities, and anticipate customer needs to deliver long‑term value

Requirements:

• • 5+ years hands-on cloud technologies (IaaS/SaaS/PaaS)
• • 3+ years Azure cloud experience
• • 3+ years working with CI/CD tools (preferably Azure DevOps or Github Actions)
• • 2+ years cloud networking (WAF, routing, vWAN, etc.)
• • Scripting (PowerShell, Python, .NET)
• • Terraform for IaC
• • Configuration management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
• • Strong Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) understanding
• • TCP/IP and OSI fluency
• • Certificate management
• • Experience with infrastructure, network, and application security best practices
• • Experience with APM (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic)
• • Proven experience in both Windows and Linux environments
• • Agile experience
• • Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field
• • At least one cloud-related certification
• • Experience defining secure patterns and multi-region scalability
• • Familiarity with DR planning