Sr Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

 

We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the design, scalability, and reliability of our internal healthcare application platform.

This role owns Kubernetes platform standards, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy, operational excellence, and cost optimization.

The role also mentors engineers and partners with development and leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities



* Design, own, and evolve the Kubernetes platform architecture for healthcare applications, including cluster strategy, upgrades, and multi-environment standards.


* Define and enforce standardized deployment patterns using Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps (e.g., Argo CD or Flux).


* Architect enterprise CI/CD pipelines with built-in security scanning, quality gates, and release governance.


* Lead IaC strategy with reusable Terraform modules, configuration management, and policy-as-code.


* Establish observability standards, SLOs/SLIs, and alerting.

Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.


* Drive platform security and compliance (HIPAA, audit readiness, secrets management, RBAC, network policies, image hardening).


* Own cloud cost governance (FinOps): rightsizing, autoscaling, reserved capacity, and cost reporting, with measurable savings.


* Plan and test disaster recovery, backup, and high availability.


* Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and author technical documentation and runbooks.


* Partner with development, security, and leadership teams on the platform roadmap and technical decisions.

Required Skills



* 5+ years in Systems Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including 3+ years running Kubernetes in production.


* Expert-level Kubernetes administration (AKS, EKS, or OpenShift), Docker, Kustomize and Helm.


* Proven experience designing CI/CD at scale with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.


* Advanced Terraform skills (module design, state management) plus Ansible or similar tools.


* Strong scripting and automation in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.


* Deep Azure experience (networking, identity, security, cost management); multi-cloud is a plus.


* Hands-on observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or ELK.


* Track record of leading production incidents and delivering reliability improvements.

Preferred Skills



* Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2).


* GitOps, service mesh (Istio or Linkerd), and policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno).


* FinOps practices and cloud cost tooling (Kubecost, Azure Cost Management).


* Relevant certifications: CKA/CKS, Azure Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate.

What Success Looks Like



* A standardized, self-service Kubernetes platform adopted across application teams.


* Defined SLOs met consistently, with re...