DevOps Engineer

Vitalacy, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company in Los Angeles is seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage and evolve their cloud infrastructure, automate workflows, and support internal IT operations. Candidates should have 3+ years of experience with AWS and Terraform, along with solid scripting skills. The role offers a competitive compensation package including health insurance and pre-IPO stock options.

Benefits

Health insurance

Pre-IPO stock options

Casual office environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps or cloud engineering experience.
• Strong AWS expertise across various services and networking.
• Deep experience with Terraform for infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure via Terraform.
• Automate deployments and build CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as a point of contact for internal IT tickets.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform

Scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Troubleshooting skills

Tools

Terraform

AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS)

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Vitalacy partners with hospitals worldwide, assisting them to improve quality and safety measures. Our mission is to reduce healthcare costs while delivering cutting-edge, AI-driven tools that empower care teams to enhance patient safety. By providing predictive alerts and continuous monitoring, we enable proactive care and improved clinical workflows. Through innovation and collaboration, we strive to create a safer, more efficient healthcare environment for patients and providers alike.

DevOps Engineer – Los Angeles

As our DevOps Engineer, you will be central to how we build, maintain, and evolve our cloud infrastructure. You’ll own Infrastructure as Code, work closely with developers to automate workflows, and also pitch in supporting our internal IT help desk. The ideal candidate is comfortable being both strategic (system design, tooling) and tactical (fire-fighting, tickets). You will report to Engineering leadership, and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud / IaC

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure primarily via Terraform (or equivalent IaC)
• Define reusable Terraform modules, enforce best practices, version control of infra definitions
• Manage AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, etc.)
• Provision, scale, and optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Monitor, alert, and troubleshoot production issues
• Automate deployments, build CI/CD pipelines, manage configuration across environments
• Conduct architectural/technical reviews for new services or components

Developer Productivity & AI Tooling / Automation

• Research, evaluate, and build internal tooling, including AI/ML-based automations, to improve developer workflows
• Implement AI assistants, code generation helpers, internal bots, or scripts to reduce manual toil
• Integrate these tools into CI/CD pipelines or developer environments
• Survey and evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and platforms to bring efficiencies

IT Help Desk & Internal Support

• Act as a point of contact for internal IT tickets (hardware, software, access issues)
• Troubleshoot and resolve light support requests (user accounts, VPN, workstation, network)
• Collaborate with external vendors when needed
• Maintain internal documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks

Additional / Strategic

• Participate in system design conversations (especially around scale, security, reliability)
• Implement and enforce security, compliance, and governance guardrails in infrastructure
• Assist with disaster recovery, backup strategies, and capacity planning
• Mentor and share best practices with junior engineers
• Be proactive in identifying gaps, suggesting improvements, and executing them

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud engineering experience
• Strong AWS expertise (services, networking, IAM)
• Deep experience using Terraform (or Pulumi / CloudFormation) for infrastructure management
• Solid scripting or programming ability (Python, Go, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Good troubleshooting skills (networking, OS, distributed systems)
• Comfortable working in a small but growing team; able to wear multiple hats

Preferred / Advantageous Skills

• Experience designing systems in AWS (microservices, event-driven, serverless)
• Prior work with AI / ML tooling / MLops or automating internal tooling
• Experience with container orchestration (EKS, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of security best practices (IAM policies, least privilege, encryption)
• Experience with scaling, high availability, disaster recovery
• Exposure to infrastructure cost optimization
• Knowledge of internal tooling, platform engineering, or developer platform design

Compensation and Benefits: Vitalacy offers an attractive and competitive compensation package including base salary, pre-IPO stock options, health insurance, and a casual office environment.