SmithRx · 20 hours ago
Senior Cloud Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expSmithRx is a rapidly growing Health-Tech company focused on transforming the Pharmacy Benefit Management sector. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to build and manage cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security while collaborating with development teams in a DevSecOps environment.
HealthcarePharmaceuticalInformation TechnologyHealth Care
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 AWS
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
Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices
Understand the health regulatory space and maintain continuous compliance on frameworks like HIPAA, and SOC2
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 Cloud Engineering
BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field
Extensive experience working in containerized Cloud Native environments, specifically AWS and Kubernetes/EKS
Experience using modern monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, Event Bridge, DataDog etc., and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming and dashboards
Experience managing change management practices, policies and procedures
Experience deploying and monitoring applications in AWS at scale
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), DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices
Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging
Experience with FinOps practices and establishing related governance programs
Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as 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 RDS, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake
Strong scripting skills in Python, Shell 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.
501-1000 employees
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
Leadership Team
Alexandra Morrison
Talent Acquisition Partner
Bryan Fowler
Partner Relationship Manager
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