DevOps Engineer

Strive Compounding Pharmacy; Gilbert (AZ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in personalized medicine is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support their cloud-based healthcare platform. This role involves ensuring system reliability, designing secure infrastructure, and collaborating with engineering teams. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes. Join a mission-driven team dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovative solutions.

Benefits

Employer-paid healthcare after 30 days

FSA/HSA options

Scrubs voucher

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Weekends and holidays off

Free compounded meds for employees and their families

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure role.
• Experience with GCP including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL.
• Familiarity with healthcare security standards like HIPAA.

Responsibilities

• Ensure 24/7 uptime and system reliability for production environments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure on GCP.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

Go

Education

Google Cloud certification

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

Jenkins

Grafana

ELK Stack

Datadog

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Company Overview

Before we opened Strive Pharmacy, we were unsatisfied with the current state of the pharmaceutical industry. Most pharmaceuticals offer a one-size-fits-all approach and often come with unwanted and potentially dangerous side effects. We found that through compounding, we can offer a much more personalized solution to medicine.

Through this, we have been able to help patients achieve the results they seek for their personal needs. After years of working for corporate chains, we took the risk and opened Strive Pharmacy. We are dedicated to providing a better experience for each customer and clinic we work with. Come see the Strive difference.

Our Mission

We're flipping the script with personal medicine. We aim to disrupt an industry that has been closed to personalized care, accessibility, and nuance for too long. We seek to shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to health, emphasizing 'The human element' in all interactions—whether with patients, providers, or practices. We are more than a pharmacy; we are on a mission to positively disrupt healthcare. Strive is about more than medicine; it’s about striving for the personal side of healthcare.

Position and Location

Position: Full-time

Location: Remote (must be US-based)

About the Role

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to support and scale our cloud-based healthcare SaaS platform hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this critical role, you will ensure 24/7 uptime, high availability, and security compliance for systems used by healthcare providers and pharmacies. You will be responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure that meets performance, reliability, and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Ensure 24/7 uptime and system reliability for production environments supporting real-time healthcare operations
2. Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure on GCP
3. Build and manage automated CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment
4. Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Google Deployment Manager
5. Monitor system health, latency, and performance using Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver), Prometheus, or similar tools
6. Respond to incidents promptly and conduct postmortems to prevent recurrence
7. Implement disaster recovery and failover mechanisms for critical workloads
8. Support HIPAA and other compliance requirements through access control, logging, encryption, and data isolation
9. Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize deployment and performance
10. Assist with cost monitoring and optimization of cloud resources

Required Qualifications

1. 3+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure role
2. Hands-on experience with GCP including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, VPC, IAM
3. Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
4. Proficient with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Go
5. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins)
6. Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
7. Proven experience maintaining high-availability production systems
8. Familiarity with healthcare security standards like HIPAA and data encryption practices

Preferred Qualifications

1. Google Cloud certification (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Cloud Architect)
2. Experience supporting healthcare SaaS platforms
3. Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog
4. Experience with incident response tools (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie)

Additional Information

Annual Salary: $140,000—$200,000 USD

Benefits and Culture

Strive Pharmacy offers comprehensive benefits, including employer-paid healthcare after 30 days, FSA/HSA options, a scrubs voucher, parental leave, 401(k) matching, and weekends and holidays off. We provide free compounded meds to employees and their immediate families. Our culture emphasizes community, personal and professional growth, and diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.

Other Details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and IT

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing