DevOps Engineer III

The DevOps Engineer III is responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting tools and practices that enhance engineering productivity and operational efficiency. This role enables software development teams, including multiple scrum teams, by establishing and maintaining scalable, automated CI/CD processes aligned with organizational standards. The position requires a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to evaluate and implement tooling solutions that support continuous integration and continuous delivery across scrum teams. The DevOps Engineer III contributes to the advancement of development workflows, automation, and infrastructure capabilities to support reliable and efficient software delivery.

This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel will be required to Avalon’s corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.

DevOps Engineer III - Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities for improvements to continuously drive greater operational excellence, including areas such as improving elastic horizontal scaling, observability, logging, alerting, containerization, and application orchestration at scale.
• Responsible for driving Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering (PE) principles to enable the success of scrum teams and IT Operations teams.
• Responsible for driving a post-incident blameless postmortem process to help review opportunities to minimize risk and drive continuous self-improvements to our processes and products.
• Collaborate with IT Operations, Application Development Scrum Teams, Database, EDI, and Clinical Operations teams to provide ongoing support and ensure seamless cross-functional integration.
• Expected to drive technical excellence anddemonstratethe leadershiprequiredtoestablishand advance a mature DevOps practice for Avalon.

Do you have experience in Vulnerability scanning?, Do you have a Bachelor of Science?, * 4-8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Systems Administration, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps

• Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field such as engineering or computer science, or equivalent relevant experience
• Strong hands-on experience in Linux-based production environments and core AWS services.
• Hands-onIaCexperience with AWS CloudFormation and working knowledge of Terraform, including support for CloudFormation-to-Terraform migration.
• Solid experience with CI/CD principles and tooling, including deployment automation and support for multiple scrum teams (Harness preferred).
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies, including Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes/AWS EKS.
• Strong automation and scripting skills in Bash and Python, with exposure to anadditionallanguage such as Go for platform tooling.
• Experience implementing observability practices, including metrics, logging, alerting, and incident response workflows.
• Security-first mindset with experience integrating security scanning tools (e.g., Snyk),secretsmanagement, and least-privilege access controls.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and delivery pipeline issues.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and mentoring skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and implementing AI-driven operational workflows such as automated troubleshooting, alert enrichment, smart notification routing, and remediation guidance withappropriate securityand compliance controls.

DevOps Engineer III - Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional)
• Experience with AIOps capabilities such as anomaly detection, event correlation, and alert noise reduction.
• Experience tracking operational KPIs (e.g., MTTD, MTTR, alert fatigue reduction, and deployment lead time) to drive continuous improvement.

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Tampa, FL 33607