Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Honest Health as a Senior DevOps Engineer and design, build, and maintain secure, high-performance applications powering our products. You will be a subject matter expert on cloud product performance, providing guidance and leadership to ensure solutions meet high security standards. Responsibilities include driving continuous software delivery, resolving incidents, designing scalable infrastructure on AWS, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 4+ years in DevOps, AWS certification or experience, and strong knowledge of AWS services and DevOps pipelines. Honest Health offers a competitive compensation package, including a comprehensive benefits package, performance-based bonuses, 401k matching, paid time off, flexible work arrangements, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a software related technology or at least 4 years of DevOps, IT, and/or SWE experience
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field, with a strong background in software development, automation, and infrastructure management
• AWS certification and/or at least 4 years of AWS experience
• Hands-on knowledge of the AWS services we use such as Lambda (specifically python), SQS, SNS, S3, RDS (Postgres), IAM, etc
• Strong understanding of the SDLC lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of AWS and DevOps pipelines
• Experience with containers and related AWS services such as ECS or Fargate
• A strong understanding of code and script (Specifically, Bash and Python as well as Javascript/NodeJS) with demonstrated professional experience working in at least 1 main language
• Familiarity with deployment strategies like blue-green, rolling deploys, canary deploys, and best practices around deployment automation
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Cloudformation
• Strong experience with Configuration as Code technologies such as Ansible
• Extensive experience compiling and deploying applications with custom built software or packaged applications
• Strong experience working with microservices architectures and cloud environments
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as git, with experience in cloud based version control systems such as AWS CodeCommit, Github, or Azure DevOps
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems effectively
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with various teams across the organization
• Must be team oriented, collaborative, and self-motivated
• A strong track record of problem solving and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality

Responsibilities

• Dive into existing architecture and code to develop a deep understanding of bottlenecks, tipping points, and which metrics matter. You will be the subject matter expert (SME) for the performance characteristics of our cloud products, and will be called in to consult on issues with development teams, customers, and product managers
• Provide guidance and leadership to ensure that solutions meet high standards for security and leverage appropriate technologies for performance and automation
• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve incidents run incident post-mortems, provide feedback on engineering architecture decisions, and automate repetitive operational tasks
• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that address specific operational, compliance, and pipeline issues
• Design foundational, scalable and durable infrastructure on AWS to support our long-term growth
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline
• Collaborate with development teams to deploy microservices architecture effectively
• Participate in helping to build and maintain a culture of engineering best practices
• Monitor and optimize application performance using cloud monitoring tools like ELK or Splunk
• Ensure system reliability and uptime through proactive monitoring and incident response
• Conduct regular software quality assurance assessments to maintain high coding standards
• Debug complex production issues across services and product and at all levels of the application stack
• Mentor junior engineers in best practices for DevOps methodologies
• Be an active participant an agile scrum team, follow the agile methodologies and participate in the agile ceremonies
• Collaborate with SMEs and technology leads to understand the need for new solutions being developed
• Communicate core DevOps concepts to a non-technical audience
• Regularly bridge the gap between this team and other teams as the champion of cross-team collaboration for the sake of a best-in-class customer experience
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes experience
• Familiarity with SecOps and Compliance processes
• Chef or Puppet experience

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Attractive base salary with performance-based bonuses and rewards
• 401(k) plan with a generous company match, fully vested from day one
• Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits
• Flexible health, dental, and vision insurance options tailored to your needs
• Company contribution towards health savings accounts (HSA) for high-deductible health plan (HDHP) participants
• 100% company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Wellness programs and resources to support your physical and mental health
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays annually
• Two paid volunteer days to support causes you're passionate about
• Flexible work arrangements to accommodate your lifestyle
• Robust onboarding program and ongoing training opportunities
• Reimbursement for role-related continuing education and certifications
• Paid parental leave for new parents
• Dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Support for work-life integration
• Team member recognition programs
• Team-building events and social activities