Senior Systems Engineer

<h3><strong>Our Mission &amp; Culture</strong></h3> <p>At Xealth, we’re revolutionizing healthcare by leveraging data and automation to empower care providers—building on EHRs such as Epic and Cerner—to seamlessly prescribe, deliver, and monitor digital health for patients. We are a detail-oriented team committed to maintaining high standards while moving with agility and impact.</p> <p>We are a highly skilled, collaborative, and passionate group, applying our expertise to improve health outcomes for millions. We believe in shared ownership and are looking for a team player who is a self-starter and self-driven to pioneer the next generation of intelligent, automated cloud infrastructure.</p> <h3><strong>The Role<br></strong></h3> <p>We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to take full ownership of our AWS EKS Kubernetes platform and the open source ecosystem that powers it. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role — you'll be the go-to expert for cluster reliability, observability, GitOps automation, and infrastructure-as-code. You'll work closely with our engineering teams to ensure our platform is resilient, secure, and continuously improving.</p> <p>This isn't a ticket-queue operations role. We want someone who thinks architecturally, automates relentlessly, and raises the bar for how we build and run infrastructure.<br><br><strong>*Must be open to working a hybrid schedule; in our office is in Seattle.*&nbsp;</strong></p> <h3><strong>What You'll Own</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>EKS cluster platform</strong> — day-to-day operations, version lifecycle management, node group strategy, cluster upgrades, and capacity planning across environments</li> <li><strong>GitOps delivery pipeline</strong> — own and evolve our ArgoCD-based deployment workflows, enforce GitOps patterns across teams, and drive consistency in how services reach production</li> <li><strong>Observability stack</strong> — build and maintain our Prometheus/Grafana observability platform; define SLOs, alerting standards, and dashboards that give engineering teams actionable signal</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure-as-code</strong> — manage and extend Terraform codebases for AWS infrastructure; enforce IaC standards and participate in code review</li> <li><strong>OpenTelemetry instrumentation</strong> — lead the adoption and standardization of OTel across services for distributed tracing, metrics, and log correlation</li> <li><strong>Linux systems health</strong> — own OS-level configuration, hardening, patching, and performance tuning across our compute fleet</li> <li><strong>Security &amp; compliance posture</strong> — partner with en