Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote - US) (copy)

Nextech Systems is a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions. The Senior Platform Engineer drives developer enablement through infrastructure automation, cloud platform optimization, and mentorship of junior engineers to improve the reliability, security, and scalability of Nextech products used by customers.

Responsibilities:

• Platform CI/CD Enablement: 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
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Excellence: 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
• Security & Compliance by Design: 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
• Observability & Telemetry: Lead the design and adoption of monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to support proactive performance tuning, improve system visibility, and enhance reliability for customers
• Production Operations & Reliability: 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
• High Availability & Resilience: 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
• Automation & Scripting: Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and performance optimization to improve efficiency, consistency, and operational excellence across environments
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers, modeling engineering best practices, and owning delivery quality across shared platform services
• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: 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