Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health. 

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

What We’re Looking For

Cloud Engineering - Services is dedicated to managing and supporting 3rd party tools and platforms, both managed and unmanaged, such as our Kubernetes clusters, our continuous integration and continuous deployment infrastructure like Jenkins and Github Actions, and shared unmanaged infrastructure like Kafka and Cassandra.

What You Will Do

• Increase our cloud efficiency - Working across engineering, security, platform and others you will seek out and eliminate cloud waste
• Ship - Deliver on the Cloud Engineering - Service’s charter, daily  
• Lead - Actively collaborate with the team of your peers, keep your pod focused and engaged, contribute to engineering-wide decisions on technical strategy, product strategy, and organizational strategy

What You Need to Succeed

• Platform Management: Expertise in managing Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD tools (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog).
• Automation and IaC: Proficiency in automating platform deployment and maintenance tasks (e.g., cluster upgrades, CI/CD workflows).
• Third-Party Tools: Familiarity with integrating tools like Terraform, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, and Databricks into the broader platform.
• Reliability Engineering: Knowledge of scaling, failover, and platform reliability best practices.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Ability to work with Embedded Teams to meet workload-specific needs.
• Leadership: The ability to work with and influence engineers, product, and other SREs is critical. 

As one of our SREs you will be capable of doing many of the following:

• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems
• Build and mature automation tools for robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Build scalable, secure, and measurable infrastructure with code
• Facilitate capacity planning
• Champion code health, rigorous testing, and maintainability standards
• Create automation of engineering deployments
• Create scalable and reliable monitoring and alerting that works
• Create actionable documentation and playbooks, and when possible automation, to resolve recurring issues and proactively address issues before impact is felt
• Design, build, and upkeep tools, systems, and self-service options to elevate engineering team productivity and reduce toil
• Maintain a stable, scalable, and secure development environment while keeping abreast of the latest DevOps innovations
• Own and maintain Apixio services and data infrastructure in production
• Support disaster recovery design, implementation, and testing
• Support engineering teams in implementing system reliability
• When things go bad, perform advanced troubleshooting of our systems

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:$168,000—$210,000 USD