Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Charlie Health as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for architecting and building AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, developing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and implementing security best practices. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure smooth deployments and high system performance. This role requires extensive experience in DevOps, AWS services, and various development tools. If you are passionate about automation, scalability, and building secure systems, and are inspired by our mission to improve access to mental healthcare, apply today.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role
• 3+ years of expertise with AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Aurora, SQS, Eventbridge, EC2, ECR, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code
• Solid experience with Linux system administration, networking, and security best practices
• Proficiency with tools like Bash, Python, or Golang
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Datadog, Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sumologic, and OpsGenie
• Proven track record of breaking down large problems and delivering incremental value to meet deadlines while providing options for long-term improvements
• Passion for automation, scalability, and building secure, cost-effective, self-healing systems
• Experience in handling security incidents, system outages, and performance degradations, including root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
• Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terragrunt and OpenTofu (Terraform)
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to streamline deployments and improve developer productivity
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using tools like Bash, Golang, and Python
• Implement security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines, including IAM, networking, and HIPAA compliance controls
• Work alongside product engineering teams to deliver services that require new foundational platform capabilities
• Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, and cost-efficiency improvements across our deployed services
• Provide options around key initiatives and break down work into visible and achievable milestones, delivering incremental value
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the organization and seek to continually improve architecture and processes
• Improve developer velocity and happiness by identifying and abstracting common functionality and listening to feedback from the rest of engineering
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system availability and timely incident resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large cloud or monolith to microservices migrations
• MLOps experience with AWS Sagemaker
• Knowledge of backend development in Python, Typescript, or Golang
• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer productivity tooling
• Background in SDET or QA

Benefits

• Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees
• The total target base compensation for this role will be between $150,000 and $200,000 per year at the commencement of employment
• Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits