[Remote] Lead DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the market leader in providing evidence-based clinical decision support solutions. The Lead DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for driving DevOps execution, cloud-native platform operations, and CI/CD excellence while managing and mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership and architectural direction across all DevOps initiatives
- Establishing engineering standards for CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, observability, and DevSecOps practices
- Allocating DevOps resources across concurrent product initiatives based on priorities set by the Director of Product Development
- Conducting performance evaluations, career development planning, and technical mentorship
- Ensuring consistent operational excellence, reliability, security compliance, and automation maturity across environments
- Building scalable DevOps processes that enable autonomy within full-stack teams while maintaining governance and architectural alignment
Skills
- Typically 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering roles
- 2–4 years of experience serving in a senior or lead-level DevOps capacity
- Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring DevOps or infrastructure engineers
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
- Strong hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
- Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD and/or Tekton pipeline implementation
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code principles and automation scripting
- Strong hands-on experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience supporting modern application stacks including Java/Groovy Spring Boot microservices
- Experience supporting modern application stacks including React and/or Svelte frontends
- Experience supporting modern application stacks including MarkLogic, SQL, and Redis data platforms
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline integration
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including identity and access standards (OAuth2/OIDC, Keycloak, JWT)
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure
- Ability to lead CI/CD architecture and automation initiatives
- Advanced troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, application, and data layers
- Experience implementing high-availability and disaster recovery practices
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineers through technical mentorship and example
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across development, QA, security, and architecture
- Ability to balance shared-service DevOps responsibilities across multiple teams
- Capable of identifying platform bottlenecks and driving improvement initiatives
- Able to support modernization efforts while ensuring delivery continuity
- Strong systems-thinking and risk identification skills
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
- Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated environments strongly preferred
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Cline, Claude Code) in automation, infrastructure scripting, or troubleshooting workflows preferred
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance, and matching 401k
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- flexible spending savings account
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- Other company benefits
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