[Remote] DevOps Engineer III - REMOTE
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Net Health is a leading-edge SaaS company in healthcare, dedicated to helping caregivers harness data for human health. The DevOps Engineer III is a senior hands-on contributor responsible for designing, automating, and evolving secure, scalable AWS platform foundations and delivery pipelines, collaborating across teams to ensure reliable CI/CD and database performance ownership.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior individual contributor for cloud and delivery engineering, mentor junior teammates via reviews, pairing, and documentation
- Translate business and compliance requirements into practical designs, tickets, and runbooks; communicate tradeoffs and timelines
- Partner with Security, App Dev, Reliability, and Connectivity teams to align architecture, SLAs, and incident processes; contribute to technical standards
- Design and implement AWS architectures (ECS, VPC, ApiGateway, Lambda, Amplify, Route 53) for highly available apps
- Engineer resilient data/service backends (RDS, S3, ElasticSearch, SQS, SNS) with appropriate networking, backup, and DR patterns
- Implement secrets and configuration management (Secrets Manager, IAM roles) and environment isolation across dev/test/stage/prod
- Evaluate and implement database scaling strategies (read replicas, partitioning, sharding)
- Optimize queries, table indexing, database replication, and connection pooling
- Configure and tune load balancers, DNS, VPC design, and SSL/TLS certificate management
- Implement GitOps/continuous delivery with policy gates, approvals, environments, and automated rollbacks
- Codify infrastructure using expert-level AWS CDK and CloudFormation, enforce drift detection, author and manage reusable versioned modules, and automated plan/apply with change controls
- Write infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation
- Implement GitLab CI pipelines (build, security scans, infra deploy, progressive delivery)
- Own CI/CD pipeline maintenance and creation across the pipeline lifecycle
- Build platform automation and internal tooling with PowerShell/Python + Microsoft Graph/Azure CLI; create self-service templates and golden images
- Support SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, and blue/green, canary, or zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Use AWS cost tools to right-size compute/storage, tune autoscaling profiles, and optimize reservations/spot usage; publish cost dashboards and forecasts
- Proactively reduce spend via architectural improvements (caching, CDN, data lifecycle policies, build farm efficiency)
- Develop and implement reservation strategy across the organization
- Embed observability solutions (Cloudwatch, AWS X-Ray) across platform services
- Improve platform observability by tracing performance metrics and building alerting systems
- Enforce security guardrails through IAM policies, role separation, and least privilege principles
- Design secure, compliant architectures aligned with frameworks (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, ISO27001)
- Maintain high-quality architecture diagrams, pipeline docs, runbooks, architecture decision records, and "how-to" guides; keep standards current and searchable
- Contribute patterns/modules to the internal platform catalog; champion reuse over one-offs
Skills
- 5+ years hands-on AWS experience (ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, Amplify)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK or CloudFormation)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Windows Server + PowerShell automation proficiency; working Linux/Bash proficiency
- Strong networking fundamentals (routing, DNS, load balancing, private endpoints, VPC networking, SSL management)
- Proven experience scaling containerized services and debugging autoscaling behavior
- Deep MySQL and PostgreSQL performance tuning: query optimization, indexing strategies, replication configuration
- Experience documenting infrastructure for team knowledge-sharing
- Experience designing secure, compliant architectures (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, ISO27001 context helpful)
- Knowledge of event-driven and messaging patterns (Service Bus vs Event Grid vs Storage Queues)
- AWS CDK & CloudFormation
- AWS Management Console
- GitLab CI
- IIS
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Typescript (nice to have)
Benefits
- Work-from-anywhere environment
- Unlimited PTO
- ComprehensiveBenefitsPackage
- Employee Resource Groups
- Casual Dress Code
- Prioritized Employee Wellness
- Diversity And Inclusion
- A Voice
- New Hire Support
- Career Development
- Educational Assistance
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Progressive Parental Leave
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