Senior devops engineer Jobs in USA

Join a healthcare technology company as a DevOps Engineer in a remote role supporting AWS cloud infrastructure and application modernization initiatives. This is a backfill position for a key team member, offering the opportunity to work with a collaborative team primarily based in Salt Lake City while having the flexibility to work remotely. You'll specialize in modernizing applications on AWS, contributing to architecture decisions, and leading infrastructure as code practices across the organization. This role involves building CI/CD pipelines from scratch, maintaining production Kubernetes clusters, and driving DevOps best practices that improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency. With a competitive salary range of $180,000 to $200,000, this senior-level position offers significant technical responsibility and impact.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a healthcare technology organization where your DevOps expertise will directly impact critical healthcare applications and services. As a backfill for a key team member, you'll step into an established role with clear responsibilities while having autonomy to drive improvements and modernization efforts. The remote work arrangement provides flexibility while working with a collaborative team centered in Salt Lake City. You'll work extensively with AWS, gaining deep experience modernizing applications and architecting cloud-native solutions. The role offers hands-on ownership of the full build-to-deploy lifecycle, from designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to maintaining production Kubernetes clusters. You'll lead code reviews for Infrastructure as Code and CloudFormation across the team, influencing technical standards and best practices. The healthcare industry provides meaningful work where your contributions improve systems that serve patients and healthcare providers. With opportunities to contribute to architecture decisions and diagramming, you'll shape the technical direction of the platform. The position offers professional growth through complex technical challenges while working with modern DevOps tooling and cloud-native architectures.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture
• Application modernization experience on AWS
• CI/CD pipeline development from scratch using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Kubernetes experience maintaining production clusters
• Strong understanding of containerization with Docker
• Experience leading code reviews for Infrastructure as Code
• Ability to contribute to architecture decisions and technical diagramming
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams
• Self-motivated and able to work independently

Desired Skills & Experience

• Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD) or actively pursuing
• Experience with both Terraform and CloudFormation
• GitLab CI/CD experience
• Azure DevOps or Azure cloud experience
• Observability platform experience (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
• Healthcare technology or HIPAA-compliant environment experience
• Team leadership or mentoring experience
• SOC2 or compliance audit experience
• Serverless architecture knowledge
• Experience building data platforms or data lakes on AWS
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python)

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 35% AWS Application Modernization (architecting solutions, infrastructure design, cloud-native patterns)
• 30% CI/CD Pipeline Development (building pipelines, deployment automation, release management)
• 20% Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, code reviews, standards)
• 15% Kubernetes Management (cluster maintenance, deployments, optimization)

Daily Responsibilities

• 50% Hands-On Engineering (building pipelines, infrastructure deployment, automation)
• 30% Architecture and Design (contributing to decisions, diagramming, code reviews)
• 20% Collaboration and Operations (team coordination, troubleshooting, documentation)