Waymark

Waymark

Senior DevOps Engineer

US - Remote · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$194kDetected 8 days ago
TypeScriptPythonBashElixirPostgreSQLRedshiftAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxGrafanaDevOpsRabbitMQdbtData ScienceComplianceTest AutomationDNSHIPAAResearch

About the role

  • At Waymark, our infrastructure directly enables care delivery - the tools built and operated here are used every day by community health workers, social workers, pharmacists, and care coordinators supporting patients with Medicaid benefits.As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll own projects from design through delivery, working closely with software and data engineers to keep our systems (dBt, Redshift) reliable and our teams moving.
  • You communicate proactively, mentor junior engineers, and bring new ideas to the team - not just implementing what's asked, but helping shape how we build and operate.This is a role for someone who wants to do meaningful work at the intersection of technology and healthcare equity.

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)
  • Maintain process documentation, operational runbooks, and infrastructure diagrams
  • Help maintain and manage systems for other teams
  • dBt and Redshift - to support our Analytics Team
  • SageMaker - to support our Data Science Team
  • Raise the DevOps literacy of the engineering team - mentoring junior engineers and helping non-infrastructure engineers build good practices around deployments, observability, and reliability

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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)
  • Employment history and advance degree verification (when applicable) are included as part of the standard background check process.

Nice to have

  • 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)
  • US Employees in San Francisco/Bay Area, New York City - $140,000 - $194,000
  • US Employees in Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC - $129,000 - $179,000

Skills

  • About Waymark

Compensation

  • In addition to salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

  • Professional Development Stipend: A dedicated stipend supports professional development and growth.
  • A dedicated stipend for your first year to help set up your home office.
  • 20 vacation days, accrued over the year, plus 11 paid holidays.
  • 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents after six months of employment, and 8 weeks of bonding leave for non-birthing parents.
  • Access to a 401(k) plan with a company contribution, subject to a vesting schedule.

Company info

  • Opportunity to invest in the company's growth.

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