Senior DevOps Engineer - Platform

PocketHealth; Ontario; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PocketHealth is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and implement robust infrastructure for a patient-centric platform. This role involves collaborating with teams to enhance workflows, manage critical systems like Kubernetes and Azure, and foster best practices in a culture of continuous improvement.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Stock options for every employee

Four weeks of paid time off

Unlimited paid wellness days

Extended mental health coverage

16 weeks parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• 7+ years DevOps experience with Azure.
• Comfortable writing and maintaining software in Go.
• Expertise configuring and operating Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate critical infrastructure including Kubernetes and Azure services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhance developer experience through shared code and tooling.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Ownership

Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

MySQL

Go

Job description

What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.

PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on our Platform Team, you'll be at the heart of our engineering organization. Not only will you design and implement robust, scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure, but you’ll supercharge our feature teams by developing useful tools and reusable software libraries. Your innate curiosity and collaborative nature will inspire you to look for ways to improve workflows through tooling, documentation and outreach, and you will champion a culture of constant improvement.

In this role you will:

• Design and operate critical infrastructure, including Kubernetes, MySQL and Azure services
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Leverage observability to ensure operational health of the PocketHealth ecosystem
• Manage networking, DNS & WAF
• Engage with other engineering teams to gain insights, gather feedback, share best practices and solve problems & pain points
• Enhance the developer experience by developing high-quality shared code and tooling, and actively communicating best practices
• Design, maintain and improve core services & automation solutions

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s degree (Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar) or equivalent industry experience
• 7+ years DevOps experience with a cloud like Azure
• Comfortable writing and maintaining software (Go)
• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and a proven ability to partner with teams across an organization
• A strong sense of ownership
• Ability to deliver solutions for ambiguous or open-ended problems
• Expertise configuring and operating Kubernetes resources
• Experience developing cloud-native services
• Use or adoption of observability (OpenTelemetry) to build dashboards and alerts
• Knowledge of MySQL administration & SQL query optimization

Nice to haves:

• Experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems
• Linux system administration
• Knowledge of information security best practices
• Managing public/private networks and DNS

Technologies we use:

• Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, MySQL, Go, OpenTelemetry

You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.

People love working here for these reasons and more: working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (including stock options for every employee!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited paid wellness days, extended mental health coverage, and 16 weeks of parental leave top-up.

We’re proud to foster a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we believe in caring for our employees with the same thoughtfulness we offer our Patients & Providers.

If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to [e-mail] are accepted via posting only.