Senior DevOps Engineer

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.

Our Culture

At Alaffia, we fundamentally believe that the whole is more valuable than the sum of its individual parts. Further to that point, we believe a diverse team of individuals with various backgrounds, ideologies, and types of training generates the most value. Our people are entrepreneurial by nature, problem solvers, and are passionate about what they do — both inside and outside of the office.

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
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years architecting, implementing and scaling cloud hosted and Kubernetes managed workloads
• Cloud development experience with AWS, deep expertise in AWS concepts such as IAM, Route 53 and EKS
• Intimate knowledge and experience implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Github, Jenkins or similar technologies
• Demonstrated experience operating and scaling production systems
• Programming experience in at least one language such as Typescript, Python, Go
• Bash scripting experience
• Experience developing infrastructure as code using Pulumi or similar tools
• Proposing and implementing DevSecOps patterns
• Container signing
• Image hardening
• PKI infrastructure and encryption
• Deep experience with Kubernetes APIs and design patterns
• Message Queues (Kafka, AMQP, Jetstream) and event driven architectures
• Microservice architectures
• Container based deployments with Docker
• Experience with DNS and secure networking concepts
• Demonstrated experience with the following technologies:
• Flux
• Kustomize, Helm and helmfiles
• Github and Github actions
• Pluses
• Service mesh experience
• Experience in the Healthcare, Insurance, or Healthcare Payments Industry
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise systems
• Security and compliance experience (SOC2, HITRUST, Vanta or similar platforms)
• Experience with multi tenant architectures
  

What Else Do You Get Working With Us?

• Competitive compensation package (cash + equity)
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Flexible, paid vacation policy
• Work in a flat organizational structure — direct access to Leadership