Lead DevOps Engineer

Company Overview:

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled.  That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity Overview:

Last but not least: People who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

What you will do:

Responsible for building impactful healthcare technology on a modern tech stack. Specific duties
will include:

• Working closely with Cohere engineers to plan, deploy, and support high-availability
  solutions.
• Continuously analyzing the performance of cloud resources and infrastructure, identifying areas for optimization to improve speed, reduce latency, and lower costs. This involves managing cloud resource utilization effectively to avoid over-provisioning and ensuring efficient scaling practices.
• Leading the creation and enforcement of DevOps standards, best practices, and policies to ensure consistency across the team. This includes creating comprehensive guidelines for code quality, deployment processes, and incident response procedures, ensuring smooth collaboration between development and operations teams.
• Providing leadership and mentorship to DevOps Engineers, helping them develop technical skills, adhere to best practices, and grow within the team. This includes conducting regular training sessions, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Implementing and managing tools supporting Cohere’s engineering teams and infrastructure including monitoring and alerting, performing Continuous Integration/Continuous Development, and version control.
• Automating the compilation, testing, packaging, and release of Cohere’s software platform.
• Overseeing the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for managing and automating infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments. This includes maintaining and refining existing IaC frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), ensuring seamless transitions between environments and compliance
  with organizational standards.
• Contributing across all parts of Cohere Health's platform infrastructure, from access management to the internal and end-user application deployments, using Terraform, Chef, Github Actions (CICD), Docker, ELK, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Java
  Grails/Spring/Springboot, MongoD and AWS.
• Designing and managing highly scalable production infrastructure in regulated environments, including cloud platforms (AWS), automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), and configuration management (Chef, Puppet).
• Integrating security measures into the DevOps pipeline and ensuring necessary network security guard rails are in place.
• Provisioning, maintaining, and supporting Data Analytics/Machine Learning infrastructure and model development/deployment.
• Building and maintaining disaster recovery runbooks and utilizing the incident management response for infrastructure incidents enabling reliability and availability of cohere applications.
• Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies or services to maximize development efficiency.

Your background & requirements:

Position requires a bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, IT, or a closely related field and 4 years of experience working as a Software Developer. 

Must also have 4 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary requirements above) working with the following:

• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions (self-hosted), and setting up and managing self-hosted ELK stack, AWS OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and cloud cost observability solutions.
• Linux system administration, networking, and application deployment/maintenance using Terraform, Chef, Docker, AWS ECS, and Kubernetes to ensure reliable infrastructu