Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Really Global is building a global, provider-centric mental health marketplace designed to improve access to care across languages, borders, and affordability levels. The Founding Azure DevOps Engineer will own and harden the live Azure infrastructure, driving networking, environment isolation, CI/CD, secrets management, database reliability, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and security initiatives for a global platform handling sensitive data.
Responsibilities
- Harden networking: VNet redesign, NSGs, private endpoints, eliminate unnecessary public exposure
- Environment isolation: separate production, staging, and preprod properly — not just by naming convention
- CI/CD pipeline ownership: build and own GitHub Actions (or equivalent) pipelines with proper gates, tests, and deployment controls
- Secrets management: consolidate into Key Vault with proper rotation, eliminate secrets in app settings and environment variables
- Database reliability: HA enablement, backup/restore validation, documented RTO/RPO
- Infrastructure-as-Code: move from partial ARM templates and manual changes to a proper IaC baseline (Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent)
- Monitoring and alerting: build observability that catches problems before users do
- Security posture: enforce Cloudflare-only ingress at the Azure level, lock down legacy VMs, audit access controls
- Support the team on Azure architecture decisions as the platform scales into EHR, real-time translation, and telehealth compliance
Skills
- Job Location: 1. United States
- For the first 3–6 months, this requires a real commitment: approximately 10 consistent hours per week, async-first, alongside your primary role
- Mission-obsessed. The mental health gap bothers you enough to build the fix
- Owner's mindset. Owner's mindset. You do not wait to be assigned every task. You look at the environment, identify the highest-risk gaps, propose the next move, and drive the work forward. If networking, secrets, CI/CD, monitoring, or access control needs attention, you raise it, scope it, and help execute it
- Proactive operator. You are responsive, self-directed, and comfortable creating momentum in an async environment. If you are blocked, you say so early. If something is unclear, you ask. If something is risky, you flag it. Silence and waiting are not the operating model here
- Security-first instinct. You've worked with sensitive data before — healthcare, fintech, or similar — and you understand that "it works" is not the same as "it's safe."
- Pragmatic, not perfect. You know the difference between enterprise-grade overengineering and what an early-stage startup actually needs right now. You build the right thing for this stage and leave the path open for the next
- Clear, candid communicator. You can explain infrastructure trade-offs to non-technical founders and give direct feedback to developers shipping insecure configurations
- Efficiency and Output Driven. Must be skilled at — or hungry to master — orchestrating infrastructure-as-code and automation using AI tools like Claude or Codex
- This is part-time, but it is not passive
- But for the first 3–6 months, this role requires consistent ownership — approximately 10 hours per week — because the infrastructure foundation needs real attention
Benefits
- Equity from a dedicated 5% contributor pool, with the stake growing based on contribution and outcomes
- Contribution translates directly to equity through a points-for-outcomes system
- Equity is earned for infrastructure buildouts, incident response, security hardening, documentation, and automation
- After a 6-month active contribution cliff, the equity grant vests over a 3-year period
- Quarterly transparency showing total points, rate, and accrued percentage
- When the first priced funding round closes, earned equity percentages become fixed parts of the cap table
- Part-time, async-first work arrangement
- Full ownership of the infrastructure architecture and decisions
- Use of AI tools such as Claude and Codex to reduce boilerplate work
- Opportunity to build infrastructure for a platform serving 200+ countries and handling sensitive mental health data
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