Lead DevOps Engineer

Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the market leader in providing evidence-based clinical decision support solutions. The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for driving DevOps execution and infrastructure reliability, managing and mentoring DevOps Engineers, and ensuring that deployments are reliable and environments are scalable.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and architectural direction across all DevOps initiatives
• Establishing engineering standards for CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, observability, and DevSecOps practices
• Allocating DevOps resources across concurrent product initiatives based on priorities set by the Director of Product Development
• Conducting performance evaluations, career development planning, and technical mentorship
• Ensuring consistent operational excellence, reliability, security compliance, and automation maturity across environments
• Building scalable DevOps processes that enable autonomy within full-stack teams while maintaining governance and architectural alignment

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
• Typically 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering roles
• 2–4 years of experience serving in a senior or lead-level DevOps capacity
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring DevOps or infrastructure engineers
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
• Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD and/or Tekton pipeline implementation
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-code principles and automation scripting
• Strong hands-on experience with Observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including Java/Groovy Spring Boot microservices
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including React and/or Svelte frontends
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including MarkLogic, SQL, and Redis data platforms
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline integration
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including identity and access standards (OAuth2/OIDC, Keycloak, JWT)
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure
• Ability to lead CI/CD architecture and automation initiatives
• Advanced troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, application, and data layers
• Experience implementing high-availability and disaster recovery practices
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers through technical mentorship and example
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across development, QA, security, and architecture
• Ability to balance shared-service DevOps responsibilities across multiple teams
• Capable of identifying platform bottlenecks and driving improvement initiatives
• Able to support modernization efforts while ensuring delivery continuity
• Strong systems-thinking and risk identification skills
• Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated environments strongly preferred
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Cline, Claude Code) in automation, infrastructure scripting, or troubleshooting workflows preferred