Staff Devops Engineer

About the Opportunity

We're looking for a Staff Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and play a key role in advancing our next-generation, AI-powered diagnostic platform. In this role, you'll be a leader on our DevOps team responsible for designing and evolving the systems that support continuous integration, automated testing, secure infrastructure, and reliable software delivery.

As a senior leader of the team, you'll lead initiatives that enhance build and release pipelines, develop internal tools and services, and ensure the scalability, performance, and security of our infrastructure. You'll also help define best practices, guide architectural decisions, and mentor more junior DevOps engineers.

This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving complex problems, and has a passion for building and improving cloud-native systems that accelerate engineering velocity.

TTC*: $207,000 - $235,000

• Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay,

commission, bonuses, etc.). We hire employees anywhere within the United States and account

for geography when determining base salary.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation of deployment, configuration, and infrastructure operations across operating systems, databases, networks, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Own and maintain the Terraform codebase, implementing infrastructure as code best practices and enforcing security and compliance via policy-as-code.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure fast, reliable, and secure delivery of infrastructure and application changes.
• Manage Kubernetes environments (EKS), including cluster provisioning, workload orchestration, scaling, upgrades, and observability.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in AWS security, encryption, and backup practices, including compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
• Manage monitoring and log analysis using tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Datadog, and Sentry.
• Collaborate with application teams to gather requirements and deliver secure, scalable migration paths using AWS services like CloudFront, ECS, EC2, EKS, ElastiCache, Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Lambdas.
• Champion Agile and DevOps transformation by promoting best practices, continuous improvement, and team-level adoption strategies.
• Contribute to org-wide initiatives focused on improving test infrastructure, environment stability, and automation tooling.
• Proactively identify security gaps in infrastructure and tooling; implement controls and guardrails using IAM, AWS Config, and security scanning tools.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with product requirements and compliance standards.
• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Define and track SLAs/SLOs in partnership with product and engineering teams, leveraging observability tooling to monitor service health.
• Monitor infrastructure costs and lead optimization efforts across compute, storage, and networking resources.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews, driving long-term reliability improvements across systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 12-15 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in Cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• 8+ years of experience in server administration (Linux).
• 8+ years of experience in scripting or development languages (Bash Shell Script, Python, Node.js).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities.
• Detail-oriented, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team.

Highly Desired Requirements

• Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification
• Amazon AWS Certified Developer certification
• Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification
• Amazon AWS DevOps certification