Environmental Engineer - Observability, Mentorship, Hybrid

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

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.