Environmental Engineer

CareNet Health; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

CareNet Health is seeking an Environmental Engineer to build tooling and improve systems while collaborating with a team that ships rapidly. You will own testing, security, observability, and cost optimization for our Spring Boot deployments in Topeka, KS.

The role blends hands-on development with mentorship and architecture-level impact. You’ll mentor junior engineers, draft sequence diagrams, and drive practical improvements that reduce friction and outages.

Qualifications

• Reliable and able to manage competing priorities
• Ability to teach teammates and mentor juniors
• Comfort presenting to junior leadership and stakeholders
• Storytelling skills to turn data into decisions
• History of improving technology processes and practices

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Mentor the junior cohort through their first real React on-call at CareNet Health
• Sketch Next.js sequence diagrams to clarify technology flow
• Trim cloud bill by right-sizing Spring Boot infrastructure in Topeka, KS
• Write Nginx integration tests to catch regressions before deployment
• Own the supportive Active Listening subsystem used by the team
• Defend uptime with on-call pages in Topeka
• Untangle Azure dependencies slowing Topeka releases

Skills

Reliability

Prioritization

Teaching

Leadership

Storytelling

Process improvement

Tools

React

Next.js

Spring Boot

Nginx

Azure

Job description

Build the tools that thousands of developers depend on as an Environmental Engineer working with People Management and modern tooling. This hybrid Environmental Engineer role offers a $42,000 - $64,000 salary, real ownership over your work, and a clear path to grow alongside a team that ships.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Mentor the junior cohort through their first real React on-call at CareNet Health
• Sketch Next.js sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Trim CareNet Health's cloud bill by right-sizing the Spring Boot infrastructure in Topeka, KS
• Write the Nginx integration tests that catch regressions before Topeka, KS ships them
• Own the supportive Active Listening subsystem that the rest of CareNet Health quietly depends on
• Defend CareNet Health uptime through the 2 a.m. Topeka pages nobody volunteers for
• Untangle the Microsoft Azure dependency knots that have slowed Topeka releases for months

What You'll Bring

• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to junior leadership
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them

CareNet Health is the proudly-imperfect company technology professionals across KS reach for when the cheap option finally breaks. New hires ship something real in week one, because we'd rather you learn by doing.

The offer is plainspoken: $42,000 - $64,000, coaching that grows you, benefits that cover you, and a schedule that flexes with Topeka.

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