Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

7,000 Diseases - 500 Treatments - 1 Rare Pharmacy

PANTHERx is the nation’s largest rare disease pharmacy, and we put the patient experience at the top of everything that we do.

If you are looking for a career in the healthcare field that embraces authentic dedication to patient care, you don’t need to look beyond PANTHERx. In every line of service, in every position and area of expertise, PANTHERx associates are driven to provide the highest quality outcomes for our patients.

We are seeking team members who:

Are inspired and compassionate problem solvers;

Produce high quality work;

Thrive in the excitement of the ever-challenging environment of modern medicine; and

Are committed to achieving superior health outcomes for people living with rare and devastating diseases.

At PANTHERx, we know our employees are the driving force in what we do. We cultivate talent and encourage growth within PANTHERx so that our associates can continue to explore their interests and expand their careers. Guided by our mission to provide uncompromising quality every day, we continue our strategic growth to further reach those affected by rare diseases.

Join the PANTHERx team, and define your own RxARE future in healthcare!

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

Classification: Exempt

Status: Full-time

Reports to: Principal DevOps Engineer

Purpose

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work collaboratively with our software engineering team to deploy and operate custom and off-the-shelf software systems, and help in automating and streamlining software development lifecycle (SDLC) operations and processes. You will be required to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to software development, from build system automation to automated cloud infrastructure deployment, to support our engineering delivery and ongoing business processes.
• Assists in implementing DevOps practices across the organization to enhance our Agile posture.
• Develops, deploys, and maintains CI/CD systems for our cloud applications and infrastructure.
• Deploys, operates, and maintains third-party software solutions on in-house infrastructure when necessary to comply with requirements or regulations.
• Writes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automates its deployment using industry-standard tools and services.
• Provides systems support, including responding to monitoring alerts and troubleshooting cloud-based systems.
• Implements and stays abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.
• Documents automation processes.
• Troubleshoots CI/CD infrastructure and processes (disk space, network issues, etc.) and provides pipeline/workflow support (troubleshooting, assisting with setup in new projects).
• Works closely with the developer team to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements.
• Helps mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, computer science, information systems, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of four (4) years of hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent systems, including writing, deploying, and automating CI/CD workflows, pipelines, and IaC scripts.
• Minimum of four (4) years of hands-on experience in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines/workflows, including different deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, etc.)
• Minimum of four (4) years of hands-on experience troubleshooting Azure or other cloud-based systems.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience with typical SDLC practices such as branching, branch protection policies, and code review, their implementation in Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent platforms, and code analysis tools such as SonarQube.
• Strong knowledge of and comfort with scripting languages such as PowerShell or Bash.
• Strong familiarity and comfort with REST APIs. Willingness and ability to learn new technologies, tools, and platforms, and operate them for the benefit of our developer team and other internal customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with .NET (C#) and JS/TS/Node based applications.
• Knowledge of different monitoring and logging solutions available from cloud providers, preferably on Azure, including Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Experience with the following Azure compute solutions: Azure Functions, Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Management, Azure Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server.
• Experience with Azure ARM or Bicep for IaC.
• Relevant Certifications:
  • Azure DevOps (AZ-400)
  • Azure Data Engineering (AZ-200 and AZ-201)
  • Azure Cloud Developer (AZ-203)

Work Environment

This position operates in a home or professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, see, talk, or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and finger to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Visual acuity is necessary for tasks such as reading, observing surroundings, or working with various forms of data. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Benefits:

Hybrid, remote and flexible on-site work schedules are available, based on the position. PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy also affords an excellent benefit package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, 401K with employer matching, employer-paid life insurance and short/long term disability coverage, and an Employee Assistance Program! Generous paid time off is also available to all full-time employees. Of course we offer paid holidays too!

Equal Opportunity:

PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotions or any term or condition of employment based on race, age, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.