Staff Engineer, DevOps

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, DevOps based in the United States.

This is a high-impact engineering opportunity focused on building secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for mission-driven digital services in healthcare.
You will help shape DevOps and cloud engineering practices across critical applications, microservices, and APIs running on AWS.
The role combines hands-on technical delivery with architecture, automation, observability, security, and continuous improvement.
You will work closely with software engineers, product leaders, client stakeholders, and cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
Your expertise will help strengthen deployment pipelines, system resilience, application performance, and compliance with public-sector requirements.
You will also mentor engineers, contribute to technical decisions, and promote modern engineering practices across the team.
This remote-first role is ideal for a technically strong engineer who values collaboration, autonomy, quality, and meaningful work that can improve healthcare outcomes.

Accountabilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies, and Infrastructure as Code solutions in alignment with DevSecOps principles.
• Build and manage infrastructure supporting microservices and APIs on AWS, with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, observability, and performance optimization solutions to improve system resilience and operational visibility.
• Participate in security reviews, risk assessments, vulnerability management, and remediation activities across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of security, compliance, and governance policies within AWS environments.
• Manage containerized, microservices-based architectures and orchestration using technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Collaborate with software development teams to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, application, deployment, and production issues.
• Ensure the availability, performance, security, and scalability of applications and supporting systems.
• Implement industry best practices for system hardening, configuration management, and secure infrastructure operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely technical support for production systems.
• Monitor system logs and activity, proactively identify potential issues, and take action to prevent service disruptions.
• Contribute to software development across frontend and backend technologies when needed, ensuring applications remain functional, scalable, secure, and performant.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, providing technical expertise and helping evaluate technologies, frameworks, and tools.
• Conduct thorough code and design reviews, offering constructive feedback and identifying risks or opportunities for improvement.
• Debug software defects and proactively address potential technical issues before they affect users.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, operational procedures, and user guides.
• Mentor and support junior engineers while fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team environment.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, estimation, prioritization, and planning activities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, tools, and engineering practices to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and client teams to ensure technical solutions align with business and user needs.
• Contribute to quality assurance activities, including test planning, test automation, defect tracking, performance testing, and security testing.
• Help establish quality standards and metrics throughout the software development lifecycle while ensuring applicable regulatory and compliance requirements are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and/or equivalent professional experience in DevOps, system administration, software engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Strong proficiency with Git and modern software development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Strong experience with AWS services, including technologies such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, and the AWS CLI.
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, with Bash or Zsh preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, analytical, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to design and implement secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Experience applying DevSecOps principles across development, deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure operations.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, product teams, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to contribute to architecture and design decisions while maintaining a hands-on engineering approach.
• Experience mentoring engineers and sharing technical knowledge within a collaborative team environment.
• Prior software development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Python, or similar languages is a plus.
• AWS Associate or Professional certifications are advantageous.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch or New Relic is preferred.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB is a plus.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder; visa sponsorship is not available.
• Must have maintained U.S. residency for at least the past three years.
• Must be able to meet the requirements for a Public Trust position, including successfully completing a U.S. government background investigation.

Benefits

• Salary: $150,000–$182,400 per year.
• Remote-first, remote-only culture with flexibility to work from home.
• Paid time off: Four weeks of PTO annually, prorated during the first year based on start date.
• Paid holidays: 10 floating company holidays.
• Flexible schedule designed to support work-life balance.
• Home office setup: Company-provided MacBook and work-from-home equipment.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance , including company-paid vision coverage.
• Health Savings Account (HSA): Optional HSA with select medical plans and an employer contribution.
• Life and AD&D insurance: Company-paid basic coverage.
• Disability coverage: Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k): Retirement plan with a 3% Safe Harbor employer contribution.
• Wellness resources and virtual care to support physical and overall well-being.
• Employee discounts through a dedicated perks program.
• Learning-focused environment with opportunities for mentoring, knowledge sharing, and professional development.
• Mission-driven work supporting digital services and technology solutions designed to improve healthcare outcomes.

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We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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