DevOps Engineer

About the Role We’re helping a client hire a hands-on DevOps Engineer to help architect, scale, and harden the infrastructure powering an AI-driven healthcare platform. This role sits at the center of our engineering delivery engine owning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform reliability, CI/CD pipelines, and Bazel-based build systems. You’ll work closely with backend and AI engineers to ensure our systems are secure, observable, and built to support real-time, production-grade healthcare workloads. This is a high-impact role with meaningful ownership. You won’t just maintain infrastructure you’ll shape how it evolves as we scale. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Architecture & Automation Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP using Terraform.Architect and manage Kubernetes (GKE) clusters across dev, staging, and production.Improve networking, IAM, ingress architecture, and environment isolation.Build reusable infrastructure modules and eliminate configuration drift.Ensure infrastructure is scalable, cost-efficient, and production-grade.CI/CD & Deployment Reliability Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, rapid deployments.Own and optimize Bazel build configuration, caching, and reproducibility.Improve build performance and developer velocity within a monorepo environment.Implement safe release strategies (canary, blue/green, rollbacks).Ensure environment parity and reduce deployment-related incidents.Observability & Reliability Implement and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting across services and Kubernetes workloads.Establish SLIs/SLOs and drive reliability improvements.Reduce MTTR through improved visibility and incident response processes.Improve production readiness standards and postmortem practices.Ensure infrastructure supports increasing AI workloads and real-time traffic.Security & Compliance Strengthen IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access controls.Harden Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure against misconfiguration.Partner with security leadership to support HIPAA and SOC2 compliance requirements.Improve auditability, change tracking, and infrastructure governance.Embed security best practices directly into CI/CD and build workflows. Qualifications Required 4–7+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering experience.Strong hands-on experience with GCP and Kubernetes (GKE preferred).Deep experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.Experience working with Bazel or similar build systems in production environments.Strong understanding of networking, IAM, and cloud security fundamentals.Experience supporting production systems with uptime requirements.Nice to Have Experience supporting HIPAA or SOC2 environments.Experience in early-stage or high-growth startups.Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure or real-time systems.Experience with release engineering best practices in monorepos.What Success Looks Like in This Role Reliable, fast builds with Bazel and stable CI/CD pipelines.Infrastructure fully codified and standardized across environments.Predictable, low-risk application releases.Improved production uptime and reduced incident frequency.Strong security posture aligned with compliance requirements.