Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Carrum Health as a Staff DevOps Engineer and contribute to transforming healthcare by eliminating surprise bills, improving quality, and lowering costs. You will be responsible for bridging development and operations through collaboration, infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, and systems maintenance. This role requires strong communication skills, expertise in designing and implementing IaC solutions, and experience in automating deployment, scaling, and managing application infrastructure. You will also lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts, ensuring quick issue resolution and prevention. Additionally, you will integrate security best practices into the infrastructure lifecycle, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations, and document technical procedures, configurations, and deployed solution architectures.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and/or site reliability engineering
• 5+ years of experience working with container orchestration tools (e.g. ECS, EKS) as well as the supporting deployment models and monitoring/observability of them
• Expertise in implementing DevOps culture, fostering collaboration between development and operations teams
• Experienced in designing monitoring solutions around cloud infrastructure management
• A passion for working with Engineering teams to help them to identify where and when problems can be solved with cloud infrastructure and pipeline automation
• Experience optimizing system reliability, scalability, and performance through DevOps methodologies
• You are motivated by identifying and prioritizing problems as much as you are solving them and you are comfortable sharing your recommendations with team members and leaders
• You have previous experience scaling platforms on AWS & Azure with a thorough understanding of reference architectures, showcasing your ability to design and implement cloud solutions that align with industry best practices

Responsibilities

• Bridge development and operations through collaboration, infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, and systems maintenance
• Work with stakeholders, understanding their needs and conveying progress
• Design and implement best-practice IaC solutions
• Automate the deployment, scaling, and management of application infrastructure
• Maintain systems to meet company needs
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts to ensure quick issue resolution and prevention
• Integrate security best practices into our infrastructure lifecycle, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations
• Document technical procedures, configurations, and deployed solution architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect,  AZ-400: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Docker Certified Associate, HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• Your previous platforms have good uptime and don’t require the CEO to call us to tell us everything is down with monitoring tools like New Relic and CloudWatch
• You enjoy coaching up and learning from Engineering partners to help both sides to strike the right balance between resilience/maintainability and roadmap objectives
• You have interpersonal skills and are empathetic, courteous, and friendly
• You have experience in the healthcare space, or another highly-regulated industry
• You can adjust to a steady stream of crazy and changing requirements because a lot of the time we don’t really know what we are doing so we have to iterate

Benefits

• Flexible schedules and remote work
• Chicago and San Francisco offices available
• Self-managed vacation days, within reason
• Paid parental leave
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401K retirement plan
• Stock option plan