Manufacturing Engineer

Kaiser Permanente; Waipahu (HI); On-site; USD 109,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Flexible work location

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Waipahu, HI is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer who champions a test-first mindset, especially around Kotlin. The role offers a salary of $109,000–$155,000 and equity, health benefits, and the flexibility to work where you do your best thinking.

You will monitor system health, keep the Kotlin build pipeline green, scale RabbitMQ, migrate the Nginx stack, and implement observability to catch failures early, with a warm yet rigorous, deadline-driven team culture.

Qualifications

• Humility to revise strong opinions when data argues back.
• Comfort presenting to mid-level leadership.
• Experience thriving in a warm-yet-rigorous, deadline-driven setting.
• Calm under the self-directed chaos a mid-level role tends to generate.
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output.

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerting for bias-to-action production environments.
• Keep the Kotlin build pipeline green so Waipahu deploys never wait on a red light.
• Scale Kaiser Permanente's RabbitMQ services from Waipahu pilot to HI-wide rollout.
• Lead the Nginx migration that retires Kaiser Permanente's legacy stack.
• Stand up observability so Kaiser Permanente sees failures before customers in HI do.

Skills

CI/CD experience

Stakeholder communication

Deadline-driven

Problem solving

Tools

GitHub Actions

Nginx

RabbitMQ

Job description

Our Manufacturing Engineer role rewards the results-oriented habit of writing the test before you trust the feature, especially around Kotlin. Trade 5 years of Prioritization for $109,000 - $155,000 and you also get technology ownership and a Kaiser Permanente crew that wants you to win.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerting for bias-to-action production environments
• Keep the Kotlin build pipeline green so Waipahu deploys never wait on a red light
• Scale Kaiser Permanente's RabbitMQ services from Waipahu pilot to HI-wide rollout
• Lead the Nginx migration that finally retires Kaiser Permanente's feedback-hungry legacy stack
• Stand up observability so Kaiser Permanente sees failures before customers in HI do

What You'll Bring

• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership
• Experience thriving in a warm-yet-rigorous, deadline-driven setting like Kaiser Permanente
• Calm under the self-directed chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output

Kaiser Permanente has become the endlessly-iterating name technology buyers across HI bring up when someone asks who actually knows CI/CD. Nobody at Kaiser Permanente will hover over your shoulder; we hand you the keys and trust you to drive.

We back our team with $109,000 - $155,000, equity, top-tier health benefits, and the flexibility to work where you do your best thinking.

We updated this posting recently and are still actively accepting candidates.

Whether GitHub Actions or Scrum is your strong suit, this Manufacturing Engineer seat has room for both.