DevOps Engineer

DrFirst • Full-time • Remote (Rockville, MD, US) • 3w ago

About DrFirst

This is a great opportunity to be a part of a successful Healthcare IT company experiencing significant growth. We have a proven product, brand-name customers, significant revenue and growth, and are backed by leading investors. Here you'll get to work with some of the smartest and most interesting people around; solving unique and complex challenges in healthcare on a scale matched by few companies.

Over 300,000 healthcare professionals, 120,000 prescribers, 67,000 pharmacies, and 260 of the healthcare IT vendors in the market depend on us every day to manage medication safety and efficiency, streamline care team communication and collaboration, reduce medical errors, and improve patient outcomes.

Our culture is entrepreneurial, team oriented, collaborative, and fast-paced. If you get excited about stretching yourself in new ways, developing yourself to your fullest potential, and care about working with smart colleagues; we want to talk to you!

Position Overview

As a DevOps engineer at DrFirst, you get the challenging, yet rewarding task of taking our products and scaling them. We are a passionate, entrepreneurial, and curious team that is constantly experimenting and learning and will expect you to as well.

In this role, you will be the in-house expert on building reliable and maintainable DevOps systems to scale. You will work closely with the product and analytics teams to define and implement the necessary infrastructure, services, and procedures to maintain an efficiently working set of reliable high availability systems.

Who Will Love This Job

A Learner who strives every day to be better than yesterday, and is on the continual hunt to innovate and master new technologies
A Driver who works with purpose and passion; someone who will elevate our development team through new perspectives, ideas, and solutions
A Builder who enjoys building teams, new processes, systems, and structures as well as optimizing existing ones

What you will work on

You will oversee development, test, UAT, and production environments for our products. Key aspects of this role include automation, configuration management and tools development while collaborating with the engineering team on projects/products as expert on reliability, performance and efficiency.

Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage systems ensuring high availability, performance and scalability
Design and implement cloud solutions to support continuous delivery and continuous integration processes
Periodically assess all monitoring requirements and implement necessary enhancements to meet changing/growing business needs
Work with senior leaders to developer complex, enterprise-level initiatives that are part of company's overall strategic direction
Tune and troubleshoot full-stack software applications using OOPS, Java, web-services, Oracle DB, Mongo DB, networks concepts and virtualization techniques (Kubernetes)
Proactively review, recommend and implement changes to the live infrastructure after ensuring the right validation has been carried out
Provide scripted solutions to special projects

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (Master’s preferred)
Five (5) years of experience working in software development
Experience with building CI / CD
Experience with Kubernetes - deployments, configuration maps and secrets - networking services and ingress controllers (AWS specific)
Experience with Jenkins installation and configuration including creation and maintenance of jobs
Experience working with Docker containers: building, maintaining, debugging
Familiarity with technology tools such as ELK, Confluence, JIRA and Jenkins
Self-motivated and technically curious
Ability to work independently and prioritize competing priorities

Physical Requirements

70% Desk/phone work
30% Standing/moving throughout the office

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Benefits

Competitive compensation, with a base salary of $90,000 - $120,000 (Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience)
Eligible for a Discretionary Performance-based bonus
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401K eligible after 3 months of employment, with 50% company match up to first 5% of salary contributed to the plan with a 3-year vesting schedule
HSA for eligible employees enrolled in the HDHP, with a generous company contribution up to $500 for individual coverage and $1000 for family coverage per year
100% company paid short and long-term disability, AD&D, and group life insurance
Accrued annual paid time off (PTO) of 18 days for the first 3 years of service, increasing thereafter and 7 paid holiday days
Employee Assistance Program
Continuing Education funds up to $1500 annually for eligible programs after 1 year of service
Voluntary benefits including FSA, Hospital indemnity, Accident and Critical Illness insurances

DrFirst is committed to being a Remote-First company, creating a dynamic and flexible workplace where everyone can thrive, no matter where they log in from. Check out our approach to remote work https://drfirst.com/company/about-us/careers/.

Our recruitment process at DrFirst is straightforward and secure. You will only be contacted by our recruitment team through an official @drfirst.com email address. We will never ask you for payment or sensitive personal information, such as your social security number or banking details, at any stage of the hiring process. Additionally, we will not request that you purchase equipment or accept e-checks or checks for deposit. If you encounter any communications claiming to be from DrFirst that seem suspicious, please contact our recruitment team directly at recruiter@drfirst.com to verify the message's authenticity. Your security is important to us!

Learn more about our benefits and professional development opportunities https://drfirst.com/company/about-us/careers/the-perks/.