Sr. DevOps Engineer

Summary of Position:

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer to join our Digital Health Foundational Services team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure management, and automation, with a proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines and cloud solutions. Experience in the healthcare industry, particularly with healthcare-specific certifications and compliance standards, is highly desirable. As a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving our cloud strategy, improving deployment efficiency, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments on AWS platforms.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline and automate the software delivery process.
• Automation and Scripting: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Monitoring and Logging: Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and security of applications and infrastructure.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure cloud environments and DevOps processes adhere to industry best practices for security and compliance, including healthcare-specific standards such as HIPAA, HITECH, and SOC 2. Implement automated security checks and vulnerability assessments.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, Product and other Digital Health teams to integrate DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement. Implement solutions to optimize application performance and reduce costs.
• Incident Response: Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts during production incidents. Develop and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with AWS cloud platforms including core services, networking, and security.
• CI/CD Tools: Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Scripting and Automation: Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform, or Ansible.
• Containerization: Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Monitoring and Logging: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.
• Security: Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and experience with implementing security controls in a cloud environment. Familiarity with healthcare-specific security and privacy requirements, such as HIPAA and HITECH.
• Healthcare Certifications:
  • Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP)
  • Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Healthcare
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a strong ability to work in a team-oriented environment.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Certifications: Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile/Scrum Experience: Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Database Management: Knowledge of database management in cloud environments, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Serverless Architecture: Experience with serverless computing frameworks and technologies.
• Cost Optimization: Experience with cloud cost management and optimization strategies.

Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST

Relocation assistance: Yes

Employment Scams: Alcon is aware of employment scams which make false use of our company name or leader’s names to defraud job seekers. Alcon does not offer any positions without interview and never asks candidates for money. All our current job openings are displayed here on the Careers section of our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly.

If you have encountered a job posting or been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond, send money or personal information, and check our website for current job openings.

ATTENTION: Current Alcon Employee/Contingent Worker

If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site.

Find Jobs for Employees

Find Jobs for Contingent Worker

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or any other reason.