CloudOps Engineer - Evinova

Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Employment Type: Full time

WHY JOIN US?

Evinova is a health-tech business focused on accelerating better health outcomes by advancing digital transformation across the life sciences sector. By combining science-based expertise, evidence-led rigor, and deep human insight, we design digital solutions that enable healthcare to work better for everyone. Operating at the intersection of healthcare, technology, data, and analytics, we are helping unlock the full potential of digital health, transforming how clinical research is conducted, how care is delivered, and how patients experience healthcare. Our solutions are built to scale, driving efficiency, improving decision-making, and ultimately delivering better outcomes for patients worldwide.
 

At Evinova, we are driven by a shared purpose to transform health through data and digital innovation. Our teams collaborate across disciplines to solve complex challenges, continuously learning and evolving in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
 

We also recognize the importance of flexibility and balance. Our ways of working support both individual needs and team collaboration. To foster connection and collaboration, employees are expected to work from the office three days per week, creating opportunities for in-person teamwork, innovation, and meaningful connection. Fully remote work or travel flexibility is not available.

About the Opportunity

As a CloudOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in the daily operations of our SaaS platform—supporting CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability, optimizing costs, and helping manage cloud resources across multiple AWS accounts. You’ll bring practical DevOps skills, an operations-first mindset, and working experience with MongoDB to help us deliver a secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platform.

Accountabilities

Cloud Operations

• Support day-to-day AWS operations (EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC).

• Perform lifecycle management tasks such as patching, scaling, and backups.

• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call rotations.
   

CI/CD & Automation

• Operate and maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

• Improve deployment reliability through automation and scripting.

• Support engineering teams in deploying services and environments.
   

FinOps & Cost Management

• Monitor cloud usage and support cost-optimization initiatives.

• Assist in identifying opportunities for savings (e.g., right-sizing, compute migrations, storage tiering).

• Partner with senior engineers to report and track cost efficiency.
   

Database & Data Support

• Operate and monitor MongoDB / RDS Aurora clusters (performance, backups, scaling).

• Troubleshoot database issues in collaboration with senior engineers.

• Support integration of MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora with application workloads.
   

Observability & Monitoring

• Configure monitoring and alerting with Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.

• Contribute to incident detection and response playbooks.

• Help define operational runbooks and dashboards.
   

Security & Compliance

• Follow IAM security practices and apply least-privilege policies.

• Support patching, logging, and compliance tasks (SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA).

• Work with security engineers to maintain audit readiness.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 3–5+ years in CloudOps, DevOps, or SRE roles.

• Solid operational knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, CloudWatch).

• Hands-on experience with MongoDB/RDS Aurora in production environments.

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automation (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

• Strong scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar).

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

• Good communication and teamwork skills.

About You:

• Operations-first: enjoys ensuring systems run smoothly and reliably.

• Detail-oriented: diligent in monitoring, troubleshooting, and documenting.

• Collaborative: works well with global teams and cross-functional partners.

• Growth mindset: eager to learn new technologies and grow into senior roles.

Desirable for the Role:

• Kubernetes operations (Amazon EKS).

• AWS cost management tools and FinOps practices.

• Experience with other databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka).

• Exposure to healthcare compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST).

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well qualified for this opportunity.  If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this posting with them.

Where can I find out more?

• Explore what we’re building: www.evinova.com
• Stay connected and see our impact in action: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evinova/

Apply today to bring smarter, faster clinical trials to life!

Evinova is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. Evinova is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing [email protected].

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The annual base pay for this position ranges from $106,203.20 - $139,391.70 USD. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program. Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. 

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Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.