Sr. DevOps Engineer

Who You Are

You’re a collaborative professional, driven by the potential to make a meaningful impact in healthcare. The challenges of healthcare don’t deter you—instead, you see them as opportunities to find innovative solutions that benefit the partners, people, and communities we serve. Honest Health’s commitment to purpose, innovation, communities, and kindness resonates with you, inspiring you to bring commitment, creativity, and compassion into your work. You’re ready to join a team focused on reimagining primary care for a healthier future that benefits all.

Does this sound like you? If so, we should talk.

Who We Are

At Honest Health, we believe in purpose and partnership to lead the transformation in primary care. Our team of healthcare experts and clinicians collaborates with a range of stakeholders—from health systems, physician organizations, and payers to providers, practices, and patients — to deliver innovative solutions that elevate care, control costs, and support long-term health. Guided by our core values, we’re creating a value-driven model that creates lasting benefits for everyone, now and into the future.

For us, that's just an Honest day’s work.

Your Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the team, you will design, build, and maintain secure, high-performance, scalable applications that power Honest Health’s products. You’ll treasure security, stability, scalability, and customer experience as first-order principles, striving to create thoughtful, delightful user interfaces and seamless workflows. In this role, you will enhance our development and operational processes, ensuring the seamless integration of software development and IT operations. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement best practices in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) while maintaining high software quality assurance standards.

Primary Functions of the Sr. DevOps Engineer Include:

• Dive into existing architecture and code to develop a deep understanding of bottlenecks, tipping points, and which metrics matter. You will be the subject matter expert (SME) for the performance characteristics of our cloud products, and will be called in to consult on issues with development teams, customers, and product managers.
• Provide guidance and leadership to ensure that solutions meet high standards for security and leverage appropriate technologies for performance and automation
• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve incidents run incident post-mortems, provide feedback on engineering architecture decisions, and automate repetitive operational tasks.
• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that address specific operational, compliance, and pipeline issues.
• Design foundational, scalable and durable infrastructure on AWS to support our long-term growth.
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline
• Collaborate with development teams to deploy microservices architecture effectively.
• Participate in helping to build and maintain a culture of engineering best practices.
• Monitor and optimize application performance using cloud monitoring tools like ELK or Splunk.
• Ensure system reliability and uptime through proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Conduct regular software quality assurance assessments to maintain high coding standards.
• Debug complex production issues across services and product and at all levels of the application stack
• Mentor junior engineers in best practices for DevOps methodologies.
• Be an active participant an agile scrum team, follow the agile methodologies and participate in the agile ceremonies
• Collaborate with SMEs and technology leads to understand the need for new solutions being developed.
• Communicate core DevOps concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Regularly bridge the gap between this team and other teams as the champion of cross-team collaboration for the sake of a best-in-class customer experience.
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.

How You Qualify

You reviewed the Who You Are section of this job posting and immediately felt the need to read on. This makes you a match for our innovative culture. You accept things change quickly in a startup environment and are willing to pivot quickly on priorities.

• Bachelor’s degree in a software related technology or at least 4 years of DevOps, IT, and/or SWE experience
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field, with a strong background in software development, automation, and infrastructure management
• AWS certification and/or at least 4 years of AWS experience
• Hands-on knowledge of the AWS services we use such as Lambda (specifically python), SQS, SNS, S3, RDS (Postgres), IAM, etc.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of AWS and DevOps pipelines
• Experience with containers and related AWS services such as ECS or Fargate. Kubernetes experience is a plus!
• A strong understanding of code and script (Specifically, Bash and Python as well as Javascript/NodeJS) with demonstrated professional experience working in at least 1 main language
• Familiarity with deployment strategies like blue-green, rolling deploys, canary deploys, and best practices around deployment automation
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Cloudformation
• Strong experience with Configuration as Code technologies such as Ansible (preferred), Chef or Puppet
• Familiarity with SecOps and Compliance processes is desired
• Extensive experience compiling and deploying applications with custom built software or packaged applications
• Strong experience working with microservices architectures and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as git, with experience in cloud based version control systems such as AWS CodeCommit, Github, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems effectively.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with various teams across the organization.
• Must be team oriented, collaborative, and self-motivated
• A strong track record of problem solving and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality

The base pay range for this role is $115,800.00 - $136,000.00. Compensation takes into account several factors including but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure and certifications, and organizational needs. Base pay is just one piece of the total rewards program offered by Honest. Eligible roles also qualify for short-term incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.

How You are Supported

Full time team members may be eligible for:

Competitive Compensation

• Attractive base salary with performance-based bonuses and rewards
• 401(k) plan with a generous company match, fully vested from day one

Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits

• Flexible health, dental, and vision insurance options tailored to your needs
• Company contribution towards health savings accounts (HSA) for high-deductible health plan (HDHP) participants
• 100% company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Wellness programs and resources to support your physical and mental health

Work-Life Balance

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays annually
• Two paid volunteer days to support causes you're passionate about
• Flexible work arrangements to accommodate your lifestyle

Professional Development

• Robust onboarding program and ongoing training opportunities
• Reimbursement for role-related continuing education and certifications

Family-Friendly Policies

• Paid parental leave for new parents
• Dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Support for work-life integration

Collaborative and Purpose-Driven Environment

• Work alongside professionals who share your commitment to Honest's high-quality, value-based care model
• Opportunities to contribute to meaningful projects and initiatives

Additional Perks

• Team member recognition programs
• Team-building events and social activities

Join us and experience a rewarding career where your contributions are valued and your growth is supported.

Honest is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. 

Honest is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should email talent@honest-health.com for assistance. Reasonable accommodation will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Honest Health values a secure and transparent recruitment process. We contact candidates through our official recruiting platform, email, or text message. When working directly with candidates, Honest Health will always use an HonestHealth.com or Honest-Health.com email address. Our hiring process includes a live phone call or in-person interview before any formal offer is extended.

To safeguard your personal information, Honest Health will never ask for confidential details—such as social security numbers, bank accounts, or routing numbers—before making a formal offer. We will also never request financial transactions, PINs, passwords, or security access details through email, text, Venmo, or any social media platform.

We encourage all candidates to verify the contact information of individuals they interact with during the recruitment process. If you have any questions about the authenticity of a communication, please reach out to our team at talent@honest-health.com.