Waystar · 1 month ago
SRE - Architect
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expWaystar is a healthcare payments platform that helps providers simplify healthcare payments and improve financial results. They are seeking a highly skilled SRE Architect to design, build, and optimize their cloud platform and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while mentoring junior team members.
FinanceHealth CarePaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Help define and implement the cloud roadmap and strategy to drive scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
Lead and contribute in cloud adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives
Provide technical leadership and expertise on cloud governance, architectural best practices, and modernization strategies
Participate and help refine incident management processes for the SRE team, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery
Collaborate with Engineering and other teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive system reliability
Participate in post-mortems and root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues
Approve merge and pull requests, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure code
Mentor and upskill the junior members of the SRE team, fostering a culture of continuous learning
Participate in architecture discussions with product engineering teams for onboarding new services, ensuring they are scalable, cost-optimized, and aligned with best engineering practices
Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and cloud-native designs
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK for fully automated provisioning and deployment
Implement self-healing, fault-tolerant architectures that can automatically recover from failures
Optimize infrastructure monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Cloudtrail and New Relic
Ensure cloud security best practices are embedded into all solutions, including IAM policies, VPC security, encryption, and compliance with industry standards (such as SOC 2, HIPAA)
Implement least privilege access, network segmentation, and automated security controls across AWS services
Collaborate with InfoSec teams to enforce threat detection, logging, and security monitoring using tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Reliaquest Greymatter and Google Chronicle
Continuously monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure costs using AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and Savings Plans/Reserved Instances
Drive FinOps culture, ensuring teams design and deploy cost-efficient cloud solutions
Implement auto-scaling, rightsizing strategies, and storage lifecycle policies to reduce costs
Design and build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant AWS architecture using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DocumentDB, Lambda, EKS, Secrets Manager, SSM, API Gateway, and CloudFront and other related technologies such as Hashicorp Terraform, Vault and Consul and Ansible (AWX)
Architect and implement resilient storage, compute, and database solutions optimized for performance and cost
Help define multi-region disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies
Provide subject matter expertise in the design and implementation of Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including Amazon EKS and containerized workloads
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in AWS cloud architecture and SRE/DevOps roles
Hands-on expertise with AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, VPC, IAM, Secrets Manager, SSM and technologies such as Haschicorp Vault and Consul
Strong knowledge of cost optimization techniques in AWS, including autoscaling, right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies, and Reserved Instances/Savings Plans
Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
Proficiency in Linux Administration, Python, or Bash scripting for automation
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and container orchestration
Strong security and compliance knowledge, including IAM, security groups, encryption, WAF, and logging with CloudTrail
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Loki, and New Relic
Experience in approving merge and pull requests, ensuring high-quality infrastructure code
Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills
Preferred
AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer)
Experience with multi-account AWS organizations and AWS Control Tower
Familiarity with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways
Experience with Fortinet (FortiGate) firewalls and AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, etc.)
Background in database administration (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DocumentDB, or NoSQL databases)
Experience implementing resilience testing and chaos engineering
Benefits
Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
401(K) program with company match
Pet insurance
Employee resource groups
Company
Waystar
Waystar is a technology platform that provides healthcare revenue cycle management solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.12B2025-09-11Post Ipo Secondary· $709.2M
2025-05-13Post Ipo Secondary· $557M
2025-02-20Post Ipo Equity· $800M
Leadership Team
Steven M. Oreskovich
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan Ayres
VP Sales - Health Systems and Hospitals - Western Region
Recent News
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