Staff DevOps Engineer (Platform)

1upHealth is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automation, and test infrastructure for its Product & Engineering organization. The role improves the reliability, security, testing, and developer experience of the company’s cloud-native healthcare data platform.

Responsibilities:

• Work across a multi-account AWS environment running Kubernetes, with infrastructure managed through Terraform and Terragrunt and deployments handled through GitOps
• Work cross-functionally across all engineering teams to understand their delivery and testing needs to turn shared pain points into platform improvements
• Partner with developers to build and maintain shared test frameworks and fixtures, including synthetic test data that contains no real PHI
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to plan, prioritize and deliver initiatives across the Product & Engineering organization
• Build automated quality gates into CI/CD: integration, contract and end-to-end tests run on every change, with clear pass/fail signals
• Automate operational toil with scripts, runbooks and internal tools
• Test infrastructure as code with tools such as Terratest, terraform validate/plan checks, policy-as-code (OPA, Checkov, tfsec) and Helm chart tests
• Create ephemeral test environments so engineers can validate changes against production-like infrastructure before merging
• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure across many accounts (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, Transit Gateway) using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Add post-deploy validation: smoke tests, synthetic monitors and automated rollback when health checks fail
• Create and grow new and existing integration and end-to-end test suites to eliminate gaps in coverage
• Run performance, load and resilience testing (including failure injection) on critical services and data pipelines
• Track test reliability and pipeline speed; find and fix flaky tests and slow stages
• Run and improve our Kubernetes platform, including Helm charts, ArgoCD-based GitOps delivery, autoscaling and cluster upgrades
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that take code from commit to production with minimal manual steps
• Own observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting in Datadog, with SLOs for the services you support
• Take part in an on-call rotation, lead incident response, and write blameless postmortems that lead to long term fixes
• Keep the platform secure and HIPAA-compliant: least-privilege IAM, encryption, audit logging, and remediating findings from cloud security tooling

Requirements:

• 8+ years in DevOps, platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering, with production AWS experience
• Track record of driving cross-team initiatives: building alignment with engineering, product and business stakeholders, and influencing without direct authority
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar) that include automated testing stages
• Experience writing automated tests, not just running them: at least one test framework such as pytest, Go's testing package, Jest, or Terratest
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python or Go preferred) plus common scripting languages ie. Bash/SH
• Strong Terraform skills
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including Helm and a GitOps tool such as ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana or similar) and how to alert on what matters
• Comfort with on-call, incident response, converting incidents into automated prevention
• Clear written communication: design docs, runbooks and postmortems others can act on
• Python or Go preferred
• Terragrunt or another multi-environment pattern is a plus
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST)
• Background in SDET or QA automation role
• Familiarity with FHIR R4 or other healthcare data standards
• Policy-as-code and compliance automation (OPA/Gatekeeper, AWS Config rules)
• Contract testing (Pact) or API testing tools
• Load and chaos testing tools such as k6, Locust, Gatling, AWS Fault Injection Service or LitmusChaos
• Experience testing data pipelines or streaming systems (Kafka or compatible platforms)