Senior Platform Ops Engineer - Azure/Unix Simplification

Viome; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Viome is seeking a Senior Platform Operations Engineer, Infrastructure to own our Azure-based service platform and simplify it through robust Unix-based systems engineering.

The role consolidates services onto Linux VMs with systemd supervision, Apache/HAProxy/Nginx routing, and scripted deployment with rollback. Strong emphasis on immutable artifacts and clean retirement of stale resources.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating production Unix/Linux systems with systemd and Apache/HAProxy.
• Strong shell plus one scripting language with deploy/rollback tooling experience.
• Ability to recover undocumented services and map real dependencies.
• Experience with message queues: Azure Service Bus, SQS, RabbitMQ.
• PostgreSQL/MySQL ops, replicas, access control, diagnostics.
• Kubernetes and cloud networking to operate AKS clusters and Azure firewall/DNS.
• Migration experience with zero-downtime cutover and rollback tests.
• Track record of reducing surface area by consolidating services.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute zero-downtime migrations from AKS/containers to VM-based hosting.
• Build deployment scripts for the target platform (bash-based) from build to rollback.
• Maintain host hygiene: patching, log rotation, and centralized logging.
• Manage external integrations, webhook delivery, and idempotency during migrations.
• Operate networking, load balancing, DNS, and security during the transition.
• Keep observability stack healthy (OpenTelemetry, ELK, Grafana) for the new platform.
• Coordinate cross-cloud dependencies with AWS for DNS/edge routing and egress allowlists.

Skills

Unix/Linux operations

Systemd

Shell scripting

Reverse engineering

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

DNS and routing

Observability tooling

Network security basics

Tools

Apache

HAProxy

Nginx

systemd

Nagios

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Grafana

Azure Service Bus

SQS

RabbitMQ

Terraform

Kubernetes (AKS)

Istio

Kyverno

Job description

Viome is seeking a Senior Platform Operations Engineer, Infrastructure to own our Azure-based service platform and simplify it through robust Unix-based systems engineering.

The role consolidates services onto Linux VMs with systemd supervision, Apache/HAProxy/Nginx routing, and scripted deployment with rollback. Strong emphasis on immutable artifacts and clean retirement of stale resources.