Healthcare SRE | Reliability & Automation Engineer

Highmark Health Company; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 58,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegheny Health Network is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer focused on reliability, availability, and performance of critical healthcare IT systems, spanning clinical devices, IoT, automation, and security. You will collaborate with IT, cybersecurity, clinical engineering, and facilities teams to reduce downtime and improve resilience, supporting hospital operations.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities across migration planning,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, IT, or related field or relevant experience as determined by the company.
• 3 years of experience in SRE, Systems Administration, or DevOps experience in healthcare IT.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, IT, or related field (preferred).
• 3 years of experience in Medical device management lifecycle, network/device segmentation, vulnerability and patch management (preferred).
• 3 years of experience in Healthcare IT architecture, automation, IoT, telemetry, telehealth, security, CI/CD, incident management, scripting, metrics, monitoring, redundancy (preferred).
• 3 years of experience in highly regulated environments (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Oversee and deliver activities to manage, monitor, and secure clinical devices and IoT in HIPAA-compliant environments.
• Troubleshoot medical equipment and systems with Clinical Engineering and Cybersecurity partners.
• Plan downtime drills, recovery exercises, and post-incident reviews with stakeholders.
• Optimize building automation systems (BAS) performance and monitoring with facilities and security teams.
• Maintain detailed system and asset documentation; mentor cross-functional staff.

Skills

Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Communication

Flexibility

Leadership

Security Awareness

Delivery and Execution

Relationships

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/MIS/IT or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/MIS/IT (preferred)

Job description

Allegheny Health Network is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer focused on reliability, availability, and performance of critical healthcare IT systems, spanning clinical devices, IoT, automation, and security. You will collaborate with IT, cybersecurity, clinical engineering, and facilities teams to reduce downtime and improve resilience, supporting hospital operations.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities across migration planning,