Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Waymark is a mission-driven team working to transform care for people with Medicaid benefits. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own projects from design through delivery, ensuring the reliability of systems and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating with software and data teams.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available systems on AWS
- Own CI/CD pipelines and drive improvements to deployment automation
- Own and evolve infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible
- Research new tools and technologies, develop proofs of concept, and introduce validated practices to the team
- Improve system reliability — sharpen alerting, build out runbooks, and deepen observability across our stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo)
- Participate in an on-call rotation; off-hours incidents are rare thanks to extensive automation and self-healing — occasional evening work is limited to planned maintenance and system upgrades
- Maintain process documentation, operational runbooks, and infrastructure diagrams
- Help maintain and manage systems for other teams
- Raise the DevOps literacy of the engineering team — mentoring junior engineers and helping non-infrastructure engineers build good practices around deployments, observability, and reliability
- Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure design decisions
Skills
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant systems in cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECR, CloudFront, Route 53, etc)
- Experience with containerization and workload orchestration (Docker, Nomad)
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices including automated testing and deployment automation
- Strong Linux and shell/bash scripting skills
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ)
- Experience working in a regulated or compliance-driven environment (e.g. HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, FedRAMP)
- Experience with service mesh and secrets management (Consul, Vault)
- Experience with data platforms and pipelines (dBt, SageMaker, Redshift)
- Experience with networking and DNS
- Experience with image building and provisioning automation (Packer)
- Programming experience (Python, Elixir, TypeScript)
- Exposure to Google Cloud (GCP)
Benefits
- Stock Options:Opportunity to invest in the company’s growth.
- Work-from-Home Stipend:A dedicated stipend for your first year to help set up your home office.
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Coverage:Comprehensive plans to keep you and your family healthy.
- Life Insurance: Basic life insurance to give you peace of mind.
- Paid Time Off:20 vacation days, accrued over the year, plus 11 paid holidays.
- Parental Leave:16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents after six months of employment, and 8 weeks of bonding leave for non-birthing parents.
- Retirement Savings:Access to a 401(k) plan with a company contribution, subject to a vesting schedule.
- Commuter Benefits: Convenient options to support your commute needs.
- Professional Development Stipend: A dedicated stipend supports professional development and growth.
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