Senior DevOps Engineer

SmithRx; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SmithRx is seeking an experienced Sr. DevOps Engineer to build and manage a cloud-based infrastructure supporting rapid user growth. This role requires hands-on experience with AWS and container-based solutions, ensuring a secure and reliable platform.

The ideal candidate will collaborate with development teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and maintain compliance with health regulations like HIPAA. Strong scripting and automation abilities are essential for scaling operations.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging.
• Experience managing SQL and NoSQL databases such as Redis, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS.

Aufgaben

• Build and manage cloud-based infrastructure as a Sr. DevOps Engineer.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a secure manner.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues effectively.
• Organize systems and infrastructure availability proactively.

Kenntnisse

5+ years of experience in DevOps

Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS

Security first mindset

Experience with Kubernetes

Strong scripting skills (Python, Go, etc.)

Ausbildung

BS or advanced degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Jobbeschreibung

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

What the job involves

• We are looking for an Sr. DevOps Engineer who has hands‑on experience building and managing a cloud‑based infrastructure
• Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for development cycles in integration/continuous deployment mode, process monitoring, and more broadly, constructing a “safety culture” within the SmithRx’s DevOps practice
• Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure
• 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