Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stellar Health is a healthcare technology company that helps primary care providers improve patient outcomes through technology, people, and analytics. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own core platform initiatives, build scalable and secure AWS infrastructure, improve deployment and observability practices, and enable engineering teams to operate reliable production systems. The role also includes mentoring engineers and partnering across Engineering, Data, and Product.
Responsibilities
- AWS & Infrastructure as Code: Design and maintain HIPAA-compliant, multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt with a strict GitOps mindset
- CI/CD & Deployments: Build resilient GitHub Actions pipelines and implement safe release strategies (e.g., Blue/Green, automated rollbacks) for Python/Django applications
- Service Reliability & Scaling: Ensure high availability, automated backups, and version upgrades for core data stores, including Postgres, ElastiCache (Redis), and OpenSearch
- Observability & Incident Response: Mature full-stack Datadog/CloudWatch telemetry, refine on-call workflows, lead blameless postmortems, and drive key metrics (MTTR, deployment frequency)
- Automated Security: Enforce least-privilege access and automated security guardrails across AWS, database layers, and GitHub
- Developer Enablement: Create paved-path tooling and self-serve infrastructure that reduce friction, shorten test cycles, and lower cognitive load for product teams
- Technical Leadership: Author clear design docs, conduct thorough code reviews, mentor team members, and proactively identify operational risks before they impact production
Skills
- 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or related role, including hands-on ownership of production cloud infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with AWS services (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM, VPC, and others), multi-account AWS architecture, and HIPAA/compliance-aware infrastructure patterns
- Strong IaC skills - Terraform and/or Terragrunt in a production environment, including state management and drift detection
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), including safe deployment patterns like Blue/Green
- Solid scripting ability in Python and/or Bash
- Demonstrated experience with observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
- Ability to debug complex, cross-system issues without flailing
- Experience mentoring or guiding earlier-career engineers
- Strong written communication skills; comfortable writing design docs, runbooks, and async technical updates
- Familiarity with database operations (Postgres, Redis) in a production context
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Universal Paid Family and Caregiver Leave
- Wellhub+ Gym Memberships
- Pre-tax commuter benefits, HA, FSA plans
- Company sponsored One Medical memberships and Citibike memberships
- Medical Travel Benefits
- JOON, a flexible lifestyle spending account that gives our team a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to them
- Stock Options & a 401k matching program
- A broad calendar of company sponsored social events that for our in-office and remote employees
- Company sponsored lunch for all NY HQ employees
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