Staff DevOps Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 207,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company in Denver is seeking a Staff Cloud DevOps Engineer to enhance their AI-powered diagnostic platform. You will lead initiatives in automation, manage cloud environments, and ensure secure infrastructure practices. Ideal for candidates with extensive DevOps experience, especially in AWS. This role offers a competitive salary and primarily remote work with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in Cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• 8+ years of experience in server administration (Linux).
• 8+ years of experience in scripting or development (Bash Shell Script, Python, Node.js).

Responsibilities

• Lead automation of deployment, configuration, and infrastructure operations.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Manage Kubernetes environments and ensure security compliance.

Skills

Cloud environments

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Scripting

Communication

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

AWS Config

Job description

Job Description

About Cleerly

We're Cleerly – a healthcare company that's revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. We were founded in 2017 by one of the world's leading cardiologists and are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders. We raised $223M in Series C funding in 2022 which has enabled rapid growth and continued support of our mission. In December 2024 we received an additional $106M in a Series C extension funding. Most of our teams work remotely and have access to our offices in Denver, Colorado, New York, New York, Dallas, Texas, and Lisbon, Portugal with some roles requiring you to be on-site in a location.

Cleerly has created a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions with the goal of helping prevent heart attacks. Our technology goes beyond traditional measures of heart disease by enabling comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, in each of the heart arteries. Cleerly's solutions are supported by more than a decade of performing some of the world's largest clinical trials to identify important findings beyond symptoms that increase a person's risk of heart attacks.

At Cleerly, we collaborate digitally and use a wide variety of systems. Our people use Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom Video, prior experience in these areas is a plus. Role or department specific technology needs may vary and will be listed as requirements in the job description.

While we are mostly a remote company, travel is required for some team meetings and cross function projects typically once per month or once per quarter, for some roles like sales or external facing roles travel could be up to 90% of the time.

About the Opportunity

We're looking for a Staff Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and play a key role in advancing our next-, AI-powered diagnostic platform. In this role, you'll be a leader on our DevOps team responsible for designing and evolving the systems that support continuous integration, automated testing, secure infrastructure, and reliable software delivery.

As a senior leader of the team, you'll lead initiatives that enhance build and release pipelines, develop internal tools and services, and ensure the scalability, performance, and security of our infrastructure. You'll also help define best practices, guide architectural decisions, and mentor more junior DevOps engineers.

This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving complex problems, and has a passion for building and improving cloud- systems that accelerate engineering velocity.

TTC*: $207,000 - $235,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay, commission, bonuses, etc.). We hire employees anywhere within the United States and account for geography when determining base salary.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation of deployment, configuration, and infrastructure operations across operating systems, databases, networks, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Own and maintain the Terraform codebase, implementing infrastructure as code best practices and enforcing security and compliance via policy-as-code.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure fast, reliable, and secure delivery of infrastructure and application changes.
• Manage Kubernetes environments (EKS), including cluster provisioning, workload orchestration, scaling, upgrades, and observability.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in AWS security, encryption, and backup practices, including compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
• Manage monitoring and log analysis using tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Datadog, and Sentry.
• Collaborate with application teams to gather requirements and deliver secure, scalable migration paths using AWS services like CloudFront, ECS, EC2, EKS, ElastiCache, Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Lambdas.
• Champion Agile and DevOps transformation by promoting best practices, continuous improvement, and team-level adoption strategies.
• Contribute to org-wide initiatives focused on improving test infrastructure, environment stability, and automation tooling.
• Proactively identify security gaps in infrastructure and tooling; implement controls and guardrails using IAM, AWS Config, and security scanning tools.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with product requirements and compliance standards.
• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Define and track SLAs/SLOs in partnership with product and engineering teams, leveraging observability tooling to monitor service health.
• Monitor infrastructure costs and lead optimization efforts across compute, storage, and networking resources.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews, driving long-term reliability improvements across systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 12-15 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in Cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• 8+ years of experience in server administration (Linux).
• 8+ years of experience in scripting or development (Bash Shell Script, Python, Node.js).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities.
• Detail-oriented, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team.

Highly Desired Requirements

• Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification
• Amazon AWS Certified Developer certification
• Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification
• Amazon AWS DevOps certification

Working at Cleerly takes HEART. Discover our Core Values:

• H: Humility- be a servant leader
• E: Excellence- deliver world-changing results
• A: Accountability- do what you say; expect the same from others
• R: Remarkable- inspire & innovate with impact
• T: Teamwork- together we win

Don't meet 100 percent of the qualifications? Apply anyway and help us diversify our candidate pool and workforce. We value experience, whether gained formally or informally on the job or through other experiences.

OUR COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. We do not discriminate on the basis of origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, or expression, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.