Senior DevOps Engineer

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. They are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer to establish and maintain robust development and operations practices across multiple product teams, focusing on cloud infrastructure and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Own the entire Laboratory Operations Software release process execution, ensuring smooth and timely software releases with minimal downtime
• Continuously monitor the effectiveness of the release process and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance overall quality
• Act as an internal consultant and subject matter expert, coaching individual product teams on best-in-class DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring, logging, and security integration
• Embed with development teams to assess and improve DevOps maturity, delivery practices, and operational readiness
• Design and implement a variety of projects to support extreme growth of complexity of applications as well as to enable innovation
• Provide hands-on guidance in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure usage, Kubernetes operations, and observability
• Help teams adopt existing infrastructure, platforms, and tooling provided by central Cloud / Platform teams
• Promote and reinforce technical standards, guardrails, and best practices that allow teams to operate autonomously while remaining compliant and secure
• Guide teams in applying organizational expectations around reliability, security, and cost management through automation rather than manual controls
• Serve as a feedback channel to central platform and cloud teams, sharing adoption challenges and improvement opportunities
• Continuously improve and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and testing using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD
• Advocate for automation-first approaches to reduce operational toil and risk
• Partner with teams to define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational dashboards for their services
• Guide teams through incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements
• Identify systemic reliability issues and escalate platform-level concerns to the appropriate owning teams
• Drive capacity planning and performance tuning activities to ensure scalability and efficiency
• Provide expert-level support for complex infrastructure and deployment issues escalated by the product teams
• Assist teams in root cause analysis and long-term remediation
• Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures
• Share best practices and lessons learned across teams to raise overall DevOps maturity

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade systems with emphasis on automation, integrations and infrastructure tooling
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, coaching, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction
• Expertise in setting up and managing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
• Proven experience with incident response and leading post-incident review (post-mortem) processes
• Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and optimization of distributed systems
• Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Practical experience building complex CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
• Ability to read and understand Java code
• Strong command of AWS stack
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience working with databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience working with Terraform
• Knowledge of various regression testing frameworks and tools (e.g. JUnit)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working in regulated environments like healthcare