Senior DevOps Engineer

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company dedicated to transforming the Pharmacy Benefit Management sector. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and managing cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring reliable, sustainable, and scalable operations while collaborating with development teams to enhance automation and security.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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