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[Remote] DevOps Engineer III - REMOTE

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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

Company Overview

  • Net Health provides cloud-based software for specialty medical providers across the continuum of healthcare—from hospital to home. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.nethealth.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Net Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 3 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.