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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Operations Engineer - **Company:** Turquoise Health - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Identity and Access Management, Software Deployment, Datadog, Data Logging, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Sentry, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Software Version Control - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/platform-operations-engineer-turquoise-8660231 ## About the Role This is a high-ownership role on a new team. You'll help establish the practices, tooling, and standards that the rest of engineering will rely on, from observability and reliability to deployment workflows and scalability. If you're energized by greenfield problems, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and motivated to automate and simplify before being asked, we'd love to build something great together., * 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure * Confident working with core AWS services (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS) and a strong understanding of cloud networking and security best practices * Expert in using Infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Crossplane * Proficient with GitHub and GitHub Actions as a core component of your CI/CD and automation pipelines- not just for source control * Experienced with running Kubernetes clusters in production and managing application deployments through GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux) and Helm Charts * Proficient with observability tooling such as Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch, Grafana to include building alerts, dashboards, and log pipelines * Experience writing solid Python scripts to glue systems together, automate infrastructure tasks, or handle custom workflows * Comfortable working independently in a remote setup, asking questions when needed, and keeping momentum without being micromanaged * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. Happy to work with strong candidates with non-traditional educational backgrounds ## Description Turquoise Health is building its Platform Engineering function from the ground up and this is your chance to shape it. As our first Platform Operations Engineer, you'll help lay the foundation for how we build, deploy, and operate infrastructure that supports real-world healthcare outcomes., * Support the Platform Infrastructure - Help manage and scale our container environment on Amazon EKS, implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, and maintain CI/CD pipelines through GitHub Actions to ensure that deployments are fast, consistent, and automated * Build for Reliability - Define and track SLIs and SLOs, lead incident response including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortems, and contribute to disaster recovery planning to keep our systems highly available * Drive Observability - Design and maintain our monitoring and logging stack using Datadog, Sentry, and CloudWatch - giving engineering teams clear visibility into system health and performance before problems reach users * Shape the Platform's Future - Collaborate on architectural decisions, build internal tooling and self-service workflows that make the platform easier to operate, and contribute meaningfully to how we scale and evolve our infrastructure ## Related Videos - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) - [From Doubt to Confidence: How Sentry Uses Verdaccio to Bulletproof SDK Releases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/739-from-doubt-to-confidence-how-sentry-uses-verdaccio-to-bulletproof-sdk-releases) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)