Full-Time Sr. Cloud Engineer

Job Summary:

We are looking for an Sr. Cloud Engineer who has hands-on experience building and managing a cloud-based infrastructure.  Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for development cycles in integration/continuous deployment mode, process monitoring, and more broadly, constructing a “safety culture” within the SmithRx’s DevSecOps practice.  Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure.

What You Will Do: 

• Help build and maintain a container based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable and compliant, and support the rest of the team doing the same.
• Be part of SmithRx Agile development team to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in AWS. .
• Gain a deep understanding of the challenges that SmithRx faces, technical and otherwise; collaborate with other teams to identify and carry out effective solutions.
• Work closely with our development team to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and perform root cause analysis when necessary.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure that applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind.
• Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively
• Be a pillar of a collaborative learning culture through exploration of new technologies, application of best practices, and any other innovations you would like to experiment with.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices.
• Understand the health regulatory space and maintain continuous compliance on frameworks like HIPAA, and SOC2.
• Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization.
• Be a part of on-call PagerDuty rotations.

What you will bring to SmithRx:

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering.
• BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field.
• Extensive experience working in containerized Cloud Native environments, specifically AWS and Kubernetes/EKS. 
• Experience using modern monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, Event Bridge, DataDog etc., and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming and dashboards.
• Experience managing change management practices, policies and procedures. 
• Experience deploying and monitoring applications in AWS at scale.
• Security first mindset, including demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated to CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles.
• Experience building and maintaining a container based infrastructure and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience a plus), DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging.
• Experience with FinOps practices and establishing related governance programs.
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as GitHub Actions. 
• Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred.
• Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like RDS, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, , PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Shell etc.