DevOps Engineering Team Lead

Bluesight; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Generous insurance coverage

401k with company match

Training budget

Job summary

Bluesight is seeking a senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to shape, build and scale our cloud platform. You will own infrastructure tooling, IaC pipelines, and the developer experience across CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization on AWS.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers while delivering highly available, scalable systems. Remote-friendly role open to the continental United States.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Developer ci/cd tooling, site reliability or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Track record of leading technical design, not just executing it.
• Comfortable communicating technical trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design and develop scalable, fault-tolerant systems with cost-consciousness.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading teams.
• Ability to work through ambiguity with asynchronous communication and autonomy.
• Experience scoping/estimating technical work and catching scope creep early.
• Experience with Python, Java or Ruby in production.
• Experience with IaC and pipelines as code (Terraform, Helm etc.) and containers (Docker, K8s).
• Site Reliability in AWS environment.
• Expert-level knowledge with production observability systems (Datadog, Honeycomb, Sensu/NewRelic).
• Linux system administration expertise

Responsibilities

• Actively identify, plan and implement developer tooling and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and assist on-call engineering teams with diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Set technical direction for the team’s infrastructure decisions and define DevOps strategy.
• Own scoping and estimation for infra projects and manage timelines.
• Mentor/guide team members and drive technical growth.

Skills

DevOps engineering

AWS

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Kubernetes

Observability

Python/Java/Ruby

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At Bluesight, our mission is to create groundbreaking solutions that increase efficiency, safety and visibility for health systems, hospital pharmacy, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. We empower our customers to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, every time. We are a high growth healthcare information technology company with a start-up 'vibe' but over 3,000 customers using our proven solutions.

You’ll help shape, build and grow the foundations of our platform. We’re excited for the perspectives you bring and looking forward to your approach to our goals. You’ll be responsible for contributing to, operating, and improving all aspects of our infrastructure and the developer experience with the infrastructure. You are able to maintain a holistic view of the development, testing, and production environments, while collaborating with all members of the technical team to support, maintain, and deploy the best products possible. You’ll also set technical direction for the team and take ownership of how infrastructure projects are scoped and tracked. The ideal candidate will be very experienced with Amazon Web Services, infrastructure-as-code tools like Cloudformation or Terraform, and a strong desire to foster and grow an empathic and cooperative engineering culture.

Behind the scenes, the team is working to improve the durability and efficiency of our products by improving the tooling, deployment, and shared computing layer for the company, while optimizing for cost, scale, and fault-tolerance on AWS. As Bluesight grows, these will be key initiatives enabling Bluesight developers the ability to deliver operationally excellent and highly available products to our customers.

The team’s scope of work includes tooling and systems for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), access control, benchmarking, observability, incident response, database replication, cost engineering, and more.

You Can Expect To

• Actively identify, plan and implement developer tooling and automation
• Participate in on-call rotations and assist on-call engineering teams with diagnostics and troubleshooting of platform and infrastructure
• Set technical direction for the team’s infrastructure decisions, and take an active role in defining overall DevOps strategy and quarterly planning
• Own scoping and estimation for infra projects, and hold timelines accountable once set
• Take on some mentoring/technical growth responsibilities for team members

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years in Developer ci/cd tooling, site reliability or infrastructure engineering roles
• Track record of leading technical design, not just executing it
• Comfortable communicating technical trade-offs and decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to design and develop scalable, efficient, and cost-conscious fault-tolerant systems
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or informal people leadership
• Ability to work through ambiguity with asynchronous communication and autonomy
• Experience scoping/estimating technical work and catching scope creep early
• Experience with supporting applications in one or more of Python, Java or Ruby
• Success implementing infrastructure as code including pipelines as code (Terraform, Helm etc.) and containers (Docker, K8s)
• Site Reliability in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Expert-level knowledge with production observability systems (Datadog, HoneyComb or Sensu/NewRelic etc.)
• Linux system administration expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with IAM and implementation of hybrid RBAC/ABAC policy environments
• Database management expertise, especially the AWS flavors (RDS, Aurora)
• Security and compliance control experience, especially with SOC2, HIPAA, or HiTRUST controls
• Any code, writing, or projects that are public or shareable demonstrating experience or understanding of how operational excellence is key to delivering great products

What You’ll Get From Us

• Opportunities to solve problems of scale, debt, and security to redefine what’s possible in medication intelligence
• Challenging and difficult problems bridging our hardware and software platforms
• A strong voice in what we work on, how it works, and how we build it
• Our trust in your ownership of your work
• Dedicated budget for training and career development
• Coworkers who you’ll learn from, who will push you, and who are looking to learn from you

$160,000 - $185,000 a year

The standard base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $185,000 when annualized. In addition to a base salary, this position is also eligible for an amazing benefits package. The actual amount of salary offered will vary depending on the position level, experience, performance, and location. This position is fully remote and open to applicants in the continental United States.

This position is a remote position and open to qualified applicants in the continental United States who are eligible to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship.

This position is open to applicants in the continental United States.

Why Bluesight?

Bluesight’s culture is built on innovation and teamwork. There’s room to grow and opportunities to take initiative. You will partner with sharp, motivated teammates looking to disrupt a massive industry—and have fun doing it. We truly believe that where you work and what you do matters. Join us as we revolutionize the hospital pharmacy landscape!

• Competitive salary
• Time off when you need it - unlimited vacation days!
• Generous insurance coverage
• 401k program with a company match
• Fun, collaborative culture!

EOE AA M/F/VET/Disability

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.