Senior DevOps Engineer

at  Alaffia Health

ABOUT ALAFFIA & OUR MISSION

The U.S. healthcare system suffers from over $300B in improper payments each year due to fraud, waste, abuse, and processing errors. We’re on a mission to change that. To best prevent inaccurate payments, we’ve assembled a team of experienced technologists and industry-leading healthcare domain experts. The Alaffia team has alumni ranging from Amazon, Goldman Sachs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and other leading healthcare and financial institutions. We’re also backed by industry-leading venture capital firms!
If you want to make a major impact at the core of U.S. healthcare by implementing the latest in cutting-edge technologies, then we’d like to meet you.

ABOUT THE ROLE & WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Alaffia’s core value is derived from our health insurance payments data. Development operations and infrastructure is the bedrock part of our platform, and we’re looking for a talented engineer who loves crafting scalable deployment pipelines, configuring auto-scaling server clusters, and architecting networks. Our internal team, healthcare providers, and insurers use our system daily to accomplish their work. We’re looking for someone who relishes the challenges of implementing CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate a myriad of build tasks, automating infrastructure deployments through programmable templates and maximizing Infra-as-Code, hardening Virtual Private Network access through robust authentication and the latest encryption ciphers, and working with the Engineering team to develop a library of utilities and tools that empower our team to operate masterfully. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to build the bedrock of a healthcare payments platform with real social and economic impact. You’ll be making a dent in the struggles of our nation’s healthcare payments system from your first day.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing production-level code for our Pulumi infrastructure deployment scripts in Typescript
• Managing AWS and Azure infrastructure
• Managing development and production Kubernetes environments
• Designing new utilities and tools to improve operations such as bash scripts for authentication via SSO and environment configuration for tools like Insomnia, Lens, VSCode and NeoVim
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and self-hosted task runners
• Developing a best-in-class observability stack using Datadog
• Engaging in architectural decisions for data pipelines and horizontal scalability that enable real-time updates for our users and scalability of the platform
• Working closely with our data engineers to implement pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes
• Defining SLOs/SLAs and improving platform observability