Staff Cloud Engineer

Datavant is a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

Joining the DevOps team, as a Staff Cloud Engineer at Datavant you will help design, implement, and maintain our AWS and Azure Infrastructure services to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and security. You’ll work with peers in CloudSec and on the DevOps team to help manage the entirety of our cloud properties. This includes working collaboratively on the team to write terraform and help manage Kubernetes clusters on behalf of the team.

You’ll be familiar already with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, and will be natively very good at working with it. You are joining a team that is code forward and seeks peers that are the same. The DevOps team runs on a life blood of PR and code collaboration and this is a native world you are most familiar working in. You will help Datavant maintain our large terraform modules and code base as well as Cloud Organization settings in our environments.

You’ll bring with you:

• Extensive experience in at least 1 cloud platform (Preferably AWS or Azure).
  • You will natively understand how services glue together and can have a deep dialog with us on how to design in your cloud and design decisions you would make. We expect you to be more versed than naming services, you understand the currency of configuration amongst them.
• A strong proficiency in Terraform, with a track record of implementing complex IaC solutions.
  • You are probably stronger in HCL than any other language and are great at knowing all of the edge cases and gotchas for terraform.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including designing, deploying, and managing production-grade clusters.
• Experience with containerization technologies.
• Extensive experience managing a fleet of Cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters in a standardized way
• A mastery in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and configuration management.
• Knowledge on Github and Github pipelines (Actions).
• A solid understanding of networking and security principles, and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams.
• Knowledge of classic configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).

You will be working on:

• Developing, refactoring, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources. We expect you are amazing in this area.
  • Including helping Datavant to transition legacy deployments and tooling into a standardized model with Terraform.
• You will be called upon to help us manage our AWS and Azure organizations and work on Account Structure, OUs, Central Log Aggregation, AWS Tag Policies in terraform.
• You will put your hands on code daily to help improve the environment. You should expect in this role to be pulling PRs all day and be very comfortable with committing.
  • If you do not routinely build in terraform, yaml, and kubernetes this role will probably not be for you.
• Making our cluster management amazing. Collaborating with development teams and your peers in CloudSec to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Helping with the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated testing, deployment, and scaling of applications.
• Implementing robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the health and performance of our infrastructure.
• Ensuring security best practices are adhered to across all infrastructure components with your CloudSec peer team.
• Providing top level troubleshooting and resolution to infrastructure issues, providing timely and effective solutions.
  • Datavant has an KTLO team. Your work is primarily focused on projects to foster greatness. You will be involved in runOps only when you or your team is needed in tier 3 support scenarios where you are the definitive expert.

Bonus points if:

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Primarily Datadog).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and functions-as-a-service (e.g., AWS Lambda).

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.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. 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 salary range for this role is  [$220,000 - $260,000].

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be anonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.) Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.