Senior DevOps & Data Platform Engineer

LifeCare Advocates; Newton (MA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Hybrid schedule

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Professional development

Continuing education reimbursement

Job summary

Alder is building an intelligence-first operating system for eldercare, using AWS and a lakehouse architecture. The Principal DevOps & Data Engineer will own the platform and data layer, ensuring reliability, compliance and cost-efficiency while enabling analytics across teams.

You will collaborate with data and application engineers, implement IaC, manage security controls, and drive observability and scalable pipelines in a hybrid, Boston-area setting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years across DevOps/platform engineering and data engineering, with hands-on depth in both.
• Strong AWS experience: multi-account organizations, IAM, networking, EKS or equivalent Kubernetes, S3, Athena/Glue or similar.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline design (GitLab CI preferred).
• Production Kubernetes operations, including service mesh, autoscaling, secrets and observability (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar).
• Data engineering fundamentals: SQL, data modeling, batch and streaming pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS multi-account environment (Dev, Preprod, Prod, Internal Tools, Management, Data & Analytics), IAM Identity Center and HIPAA-aligned guardrails.
• Run the Kubernetes platform (EKS, Istio) and GitLab CI/CD pipelines: deployments, environments, secrets, rollbacks and developer tooling.
• Define infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK) so every environment is reproducible and auditable.
• Build observability, alerting and incident response practices; drive reliability, cost and security improvements across services.
• Operate the data lakehouse on S3 with medallion layers, dbt transformations and Athena, including ingestion from PostgreSQL event streams and legacy systems.
• Build and schedule reliable, tested data pipelines with clear data contracts, lineage and quality checks; support BI and analytics consumers.
• Partner with application engineers on event-sourced data models and with the data engineer on warehouse models and reporting.
• Implement PHI/PII handling in data and platform layers: encryption, access control, de-identification, retention and audit logging.
• Document runbooks and standards; mentor the team on DevOps and data engineering practices.

Job description

Alder is building an intelligence-first operating system for eldercare, using AWS and a lakehouse architecture. The Principal DevOps & Data Engineer will own the platform and data layer, ensuring reliability, compliance and cost-efficiency while enabling analytics across teams.

You will collaborate with data and application engineers, implement IaC, manage security controls, and drive observability and scalable pipelines in a hybrid, Boston-area setting.