Senior DevOps Engineer

Alto provides an easier, more efficient and more affordable pharmacy experience for patients, providers, and partners. Our full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy makes it simple for patients to live their healthiest life, while our technology empowers partners with automated and customizable solutions for the entire pharmacy value stream. To learn more about Alto, you can review our Founders’ Story and our Values. 

As a Senior Engineer on our DevSecOps team at Alto Pharmacy, you will collaborate closely with our engineering, IT, and compliance teams to evolve our technical infrastructure, developer tooling and development and security practices to keep our systems running reliably and securely. Your expertise will help us maintain the highest standards of operational excellence and data security in the online pharmacy space.

Example Projects:

• Design a Kubernetes operator to manage the lifecycle of complex applications
• Introducing a new component to our infrastructure (e.g. a new type of database), researching the operational requirements of deploying the component at scale in a production environment and implementing the Terraform modules, Kubernetes resource definitions, etc. needed
• Build tooling to detect and assist with upgrades of critical packages and infrastructure components

Accelerate Your Career as You

Infrastructure

• Own our cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, databases and networks, using Terraform to manage resources as code
• Keep the components of our infrastructure up-to-date by continuously applying upgrades and leveraging new capabilities as they become available

Observability

• Equip our engineering team with the tools they need to detect problems and understand their causes quickly and effectively
• Deploy tools to collect and visualize metrics, traces and logs providing deep insight into the behavior of our system

• Monitor operational and security alerts, and lead response and remediation efforts

Developer Experience

• Maintain and enhance the tools we use to test and deploy our applications, including CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, and Kubernetes operators
• Eliminate toil with automation to improve developer velocity and satisfaction

Security

• Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to ensure our users and systems have access to the information they need and nothing more
• Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability testing, and infrastructure audits

• Continuously evaluate and improve our security posture

Collaboration

• Work across teams to understand the infrastructure needs of our internal and external stakeholders
• Educate the engineering team on principles for building reliable software and security best practices

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or information security, preferably in the healthcare or online services industry.
• You currently hold the title of DevOps Engineer or SRE.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Python, GoLang, Javascript or Typescript, SQL/R, Ruby on Rails, Java, React, React Native, Swift, or  Kotlin
• Experience with O&O tools like Grafana, Amplitude, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sumologic, or Splunk
• Experience with CI/CD platforms like  Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Concourse
• Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools to manage cloud infrastructure (we use Terraform)

• Familiarity with MLOps and ML platforms like MLFlow, Kubeflow, AWS Sagemaker, Google Cortex is a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of best practices for operating a reliable and secure Kubernetes cluster
• Experience with building infrastructure and tooling for a service-oriented architecture
• Experience working across teams to identify opportunities to improve developer experience
• Experience with security tools and technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and endpoint protection.
• Familiarity with healthcare-specific security challenges and compliance requirements

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