Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Name: 'Careaxiom'
Location: Lahore

The Sr. DevOps Engineer at Careaxiom will be responsible for building and extending our IT infrastructure by evolving continuous delivery AWS platform, implementing security safeguards, planning disaster recovery and ensuring HIPAA compliance. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can act independently, lead other team members, and represent operations core values across the organization. The candidate will also be responsible for building and managing a small but highly effective team needed to support IT infrastructure needs.

This role is responsible for 5 key aspects of IT/Infrastructure Operations:

1. Scalable Infrastructure: Working closely with the product team to define, develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable, highly available SaaS applications on the AWS platform. Plan for expected growth and make available resources and tools needed to support it. Troubleshoot and help resolve on-going issues with infrastructure and performance to support SLAs.

2. Secure Environment: Implement processes, software, and checks to continuously analyze security vulnerabilities within infrastructure, administration, and product.

3. Disaster Recovery: Setup a foolproof disaster recovery system with database/application backups, replications, quick-setup-instances, alerts, step by step instructions, and more. Perform and document quarterly disaster recovery dry runs.

4. Continuous Integration: Design and implement deployment automation from code check-in to production, that includes but not limited to automating software integrations (i.e. building, packaging, and deploying). Also, work with the product team to implement and maintain a microservices model and container-based deployments.

5. HIPAA Compliance: Document and Implement HIPAA best practices and safeguards to prepare for third party audits and unexpected breach.

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field

• Over 6 years of continued professional experience of which 3-5 years should be managing Cloud infrastructure.

• Strong experience in technical ownership of a cloud service – administration, provisioning, deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting …

• Strong experience with Cloud provisioning tools like Cloudformation/Terraform.

• Strong experience in maintaining Dev, QA, Staging, and Production environments.

• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch and IAM)

• Experience with deployment automation tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible

• Experience with build tools, like ant or Maven, integration tools, like Jenkins and source control systems like Git

• Experience with Application Servers like Apache Tomcat, Nginx

• Experience with Unix/Linux and shell scripting

• Knowledge of networking and security concepts

• Understanding of how the Internet works not limited to SSL, DNS, routing, HTTP(s) protocols, Proxy, OSI Layers

• Ability to work independently as part of a cross-functional global team

• Willingness to participate in off-hour resolution of incidents to ensure SaaS applications are operational.

• Good organizational skills and the ability to track and prioritize several tasks.

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Strong communication, and technical writing skills

It will be a plus if the candidate has:

• Experience leading and scaling early-stage company into a growth stage

• Knowledge of business practices as related to specialty area, such as Healthcare IT, Hospital Systems, Long Term Care, etc

• AWS and Linux Certifications

• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  Information TechnologyEngineering

• Industries

  Information Technology and ServicesHospital & Health Care