Staff DevOps Engineer

**Work from where you are - considering candidates in San Mateo, Santa Barbara, or US-based remote**

About Evidation

Evidation creates new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life. Built upon a foundation of user privacy and control over permissioned health data, Evidation's consumer platform is trusted by millions of individuals—generating data with unprecedented speed, scale, and rigor. We partner with leading healthcare companies to understand health and disease outside the clinic walls. Evidation is working to bring people individualized, proactive, and accessible healthcare—faster. Founded in 2012, Evidation is headquartered in California with employees working from around the globe.

Evidation’s Consumer Applications business unit is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer with a passion for DevOps, automation, building engineering tools, and engineering scalable high performing distributed cloud systems. Experience with cloud native architecture, cloud security, continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and a strong operational background are all a must. More than a set of skills, we are looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, great at communicating, and is always willing to learn. If you are ready to help build a great Engineering organization this is the perfect opportunity.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES 

• Write self documenting production-ready infrastructure as code that is easily testable, easily understood by other engineers, and accounts for edge cases and potential issues.
• Architects cloud native systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. 
• Identifies and drives automation work leading to quality and velocity improvements.
• Build DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines to allow engineers to self-serve infrastructure capabilities.
• Thinks about team practices and processes and regularly discusses improvements with their team. 
• Be aware of the operational data for their team’s domain and use it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
• Migrate applications from Heroku, Redis lab, CloudMQ to AWS Services including EKS.
• Consolidate and streamline the operations of AWS infrastructure.
• Reviews epics and projects critically and ensures they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized.
• Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within their team’s projects. 
• Share on-call duty with the rest of the engineering staff. 
• Build data security into all infrastructure as code and maintain compliance with external regulations.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong technical leadership skills that include DevOps tool development, cloud native infrastructure operations, and observability
• Strong communication skills in a highly interactive Slack communication environment
• Experience with writing infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Pulumi
• Experience with migration of workloads to AWS, such as from Heroku, Redis Labs, CloudMQ
• Experience with AWS services, including Cognito, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS, IAM, RDS, DMS, Athena
• Programming ability in Typescript, Python or Ruby in particular
• Experience with CI/CD, including Git source control, Github Actions, and CircleCI
• Experience with writing automated unit tests for infrastructure as code
• Experience with container orchestration, including Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience with writing code to automate processes, including Bash
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools, including SaltStack and Ansible 
• Experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL
• Strong command of Linux fundamentals and MacOS
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a manager
• Experience with DataDog
• Experience with monitoring and maintaining large distributed systems
• Experience with 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, or HITRUST certification

*This job description outlines primary duties and requirements and is not intended to identify all tasks that may be performed; individuals occupying the position may be required to perform other duties.  The company may modify job duties from time to time, either in practice or in writing.

Evidation Health values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic. 

We will also reasonably accommodate the physical and/or mental disabilities of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability in order to enable the applicant to complete the application or interview process, providing undue hardship on Evidation Health would not result. 

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