Senior DevOps Engineer

K Health
New York, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 180K

Job location

New York, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Automation of Tests
Bash
Cloud Storage
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
DNS
Identity and Access Management
Python
Key Management
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Nginx
Redis
Reliability Engineering
Reverse Proxy
Datadog
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform System
Gitlab
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Hashicorp
Cloudflare
Slurm
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Api Gateway
Terraform
Vulnerability Analysis
Microservices

Job description

We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team at K Health. You will own and evolve the infrastructure underpinning a healthcare AI platform serving patients and enterprise health system partners. This is a high-ownership role: you will architect and operate cloud environments across K Health and its enterprise partners, lead complex infrastructure migrations, drive disaster recovery programs, and help build the next generation of AI-powered operations tooling. You will also mentor junior engineers and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the company. This is a hybrid role based in New York City (4 days/week in office) and includes participation in a daytime on-call rotation., * Own the design, implementation, and evolution of our GKE-based Kubernetes infrastructure across K Health and enterprise partner environments.

  • Build and maintain our Terraform modular infrastructure library, including reusable modules with automated testing, across GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS.
  • Architect, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD shared pipeline templates used by all engineering teams (build, test, security scanning, deployment).
  • Own and maintain self-hosted infrastructure software running in-cluster, including GitLab, ArgoCD, Langfuse, DependencyTrack, NGINX Ingress, and others.
  • Implement and support security and compliance controls across infrastructure and the software supply chain - secrets management, pipeline secret detection, container scanning, SOC2 and HIPAA.
  • Drive disaster recovery readiness: design failover scenarios, author runbooks, and lead periodic DR tests.
  • Lead development of AI-powered operations tooling and agentic infrastructure.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production system reliability; respond to incidents during on-call shifts.
  • Mentor junior DevOps engineers and establish team-wide engineering standards.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.

  • Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem - Helm, Helmfile, ArgoCD, Kyverno, cert-manager, and NGINX Ingress.
  • Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform - GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, IAM, and Workload Identity.
  • Strong Terraform expertise: modular architecture, multi-environment provisioning, and automated testing.
  • Advanced knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and GitOps practices.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Plus:

  • Advanced Bash scripting skills.
  • Experience with secrets management solutions such as Akeyless or HashiCorp Vault.
  • Experience with database administration across PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB - including DR configuration and operational runbooks.
  • Experience with Datadog or equivalent observability platform (APM, infrastructure, log management).
  • Experience with Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and security rules management.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and executing disaster recovery programs, including failover testing and runbook authorship., * Experience in highly regulated environments - SOC2 and HIPAA.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers.
  • Experience with HPC or GPU cluster infrastructure, including Slurm..
  • Experience building or operating AI agents or agentic infrastructure.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and API gateway / reverse proxy patterns.
  • Experience with AWS.

Benefits & conditions

2.52.5 out of 5 stars New York, NY Hybrid work $135,000 - $180,000 a year, Pulled from the full job description

  • Paid parental leave
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Stock options, Benefits & Perks: #LI-Hybrid
  • Hybrid work schedule with weekly lunches and stocked fridges
  • Monthly social committees for company events
  • 18 vacation days, 9 company holidays, 5 sick days, and 2 personal days
  • Stock options for every full-time employee
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401k benefit
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance options, We offer competitive compensation packages based on industry benchmarks for function, level, and geographic location. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.

About the company

Behind every leading health system is K Health's AI-powered virtual care engine. Esteemed health systems like Mayo Clinic, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Hackensack Meridian Health, and Hartford Healthcare partner with K Health to build and run modern primary virtual care clinics on their behalf. Our deeply integrated model modernizes the primary care loop by using AI to put humans first. For our patients, we offer clinical AI (i.e., PatientGPT) and unparalleled access to close care gaps around the clock. For our Providers, we deliver provider-serving agentic solutions (i.e., Perfect Note) to eliminate administrative overload and burnout. And for the health systems, we deploy our top-grade Virtualists in AI-powered virtual clinics 24/7 to capture the patients' care journeys at step one, retain the journey through the system for longitudinal care, and strengthen profitability. We're founded in 2016, headquartered in New York City, and backed by nearly $400 million from leading investors including Valor Equity Partners, Claure Group, Mangrove Capital Partners, 14W, Notable Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, PICO Venture Partners, Max Ventures, and other strategic healthcare partners., We are committed to maintaining the integrity of our hiring process and ensuring a safe environment for all candidates. All communication for job offers from K Health will come from email addresses ending in @khealth.com. K Health will never ask you to provide financial information about yourself during the recruitment process. We will never use personal email accounts or other domains for official correspondence. Our official job postings are only listed on our official website and reputable job boards. Be cautious of job offers from sources other than these platforms.

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