# Senior DevOps Engineer
## About the Role
Lyra Health is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure while supporting software delivery pipelines. This role focuses on modernizing platform tooling, evolving Lyra’s production Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environment, optimizing managed cloud datastores such as AWS RDS, Aurora, and ElastiCache, and creating frictionless developer experiences through automation and self-service infrastructure.
The Senior DevOps Engineer will work closely with engineering, data science, and machine learning teams to improve cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, security, reliability, and operational processes. This is a remote U.S. role, and candidates must reside within the United States.
## Key Responsibilities
Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud services.
Collaborate with engineering, data science, and machine learning teams to maintain and improve cloud infrastructure and developer experience.
Build, maintain, and abstract internal platform tools, developer templates, and self-service CI/CD pipelines.
Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using scripting languages.
Implement cloud security practices through continuous vulnerability remediation, IAM policies, and compliance guardrails within platform pipelines.
Monitor and analyze system and network performance and implement proactive measures to improve infrastructure availability and reliability.
Enforce IAM processes and tools supporting data privacy and protection compliance.
Work with engineers to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
## Required Qualifications
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure roles focused on public cloud environments.
Hands-on AWS experience is required, including experience with several of the following:
EKS
SageMaker
EC2
ECS
VPC
IAM
KMS
RDS
ELB/ALB
MWAA
Identity Center
Experience building modular, reusable infrastructure with Terraform or OpenTofu.
Experience building and maintaining templates and packages with Helm.
Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD.
Hands-on experience administering, scaling, and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes/EKS environments in production.
Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation scripts, tools, and integrations.
Strong communication, collaboration, independent working, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
## Preferred Qualifications
Experience with modern cluster autoscaling strategies such as Karpenter.
Experience with cloud cost optimization techniques.
Familiarity with developer self-service tooling or internal developer portals.
Proficiency in logging analysis, performance monitoring, and performance tuning.
Experience supporting machine learning or data science workloads in cloud environments, including SageMaker integrations or feature stores.
## Skills & Technologies
AWS
Amazon EKS
Kubernetes
Terraform / OpenTofu
Helm
Python, Go, or Bash
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD
AWS SageMaker, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, ELB/ALB, MWAA, Identity Center
AWS Aurora and ElastiCache
Cloud infrastructure automation
CI/CD
Cloud security and IAM
Monitoring, logging, and observability
Infrastructure reliability and performance optimization
## Education & Experience
Education: No specific degree requirement is stated.
Experience: 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure role heavily focused on public cloud environments, with AWS experience required.
## Work Arrangement & Schedule
Remote
Candidates must reside within the United States.
Full-time position.
## Compensation & Benefits
Annual base salary: $128,000–$176,000.
Placement within the salary range depends on job-related factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and location. The role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
Benefits include:
Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, and disability insurance.
Lyra for Lyrians coaching and therapy services.
Discretionary restricted stock units.
Paid vacation, sick days, and company holidays.
Paid parental leave.
401(k) with up to 3% matching.
Monthly technology allowance.
* Well-being perks, activities, community celebrations, and other employee programs.
## Compliance & Additional Information
Lyra Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on protected characteristics under applicable law.
Lyra may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including application review, resume analysis, interview summarization, and response assessment. These tools assist the recruitment team, while final hiring decisions are made by humans.
Applicants' personal information may be processed for recruiting and employment assessment purposes in accordance with Lyra Health's Workforce Privacy Notice.