SmithRx · 4 hours ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company dedicated to transforming the Pharmacy Benefit Management sector. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and managing cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring reliable, sustainable, and scalable operations while collaborating with development teams to enhance automation and security.
Health CareInformation TechnologyPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Help build and maintain a container based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable and compliant, and support the rest of the team doing the same
Be part of SmithRx Agile development team to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment
Gain a deep understanding of the challenges that SmithRx faces, technical and otherwise; collaborate with other teams to identify and carry out effective solutions
Work closely with our development team to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner
Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and perform root cause analysis when necessary
Collaborate with developers to ensure that applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind
Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively
Be a pillar of a collaborative learning culture through exploration of new technologies, application of best practices, and any other innovations you would like to experiment with
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers
Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices
Understand the health regulatory space and maintain HIPAA compliant systems
Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization
Be a part of on-call PagerDuty rotations
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in DevOps
BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field
Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS
Worked as an active team member for both product development and the operations teams to provide the best DevOps practices and supported their applications with feasible approaches
Security first mindset, including demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated to CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles
Experience building and maintaining a container based infrastructure and Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience a plus) and infrastructure testing strategies
Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging
Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions
Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred
Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like Redis, Redshift, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake
Strong scripting skills, including shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc
Benefits
Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
Flexible Spending Benefits
401(k) Retirement Savings Program
Short-term and long-term disability
Discretionary Paid Time Off
Paid Company Holidays
Wellness Benefits
Commuter Benefits
Paid Parental Leave benefits
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
Professional development and training opportunities
Company
SmithRx
SmithRx is reinventing PBMs with modern technology, client alignment, and 100% transparency.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$104.66MKey Investors
VenrockFounders Fund
2024-01-23Series C· $60M
2022-03-10Series B· $27.16M
2021-01-03Series A
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