Lead DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Cohere Health is seeking an experienced DevOps team lead to guide its DevOps engineering team in building, scaling, and securing the infrastructure that supports its platform. This technical leadership role sets technical direction, mentors engineers, owns cross-functional delivery, and works closely with engineering, security, and data teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure in a regulated healthcare environment. The role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, delivery management, and communication of infrastructure strategy to engineering leadership. The position is remote-first and may require travel to Boston, Massachusetts, for new-hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events. The posting describes approximately 5% travel.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including experience mentoring or leading engineers.
- Deep hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure at scale, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management.
- A track record of building and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with security practices and compliance frameworks, including vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, and audit logging.
- Experience establishing and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain production reliability.
- Ability to write code in at least one scripting or systems language and manage infrastructure through code.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to move between technical work, team leadership, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-technical partners.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a regulated industry, especially healthcare.
- Experience with container orchestration.
- Experience with AI-driven infrastructure automation.
- Cloud platform certifications.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers; set technical direction, run sprint planning, and drive delivery against quarterly goals.
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure AWS production infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, establishing consistent deployment standards and security gates across engineering teams.
- Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern managed platforms and decommission outdated systems.
- Drive observability strategy, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call routing across services.
- Own networking and access management, ensuring secure, well-documented, least-privilege access across environments.
- Embed security into the DevOps lifecycle through vulnerability scanning, code and infrastructure analysis, and remediation workflows with clear SLAs.
- Establish a FinOps practice through cloud cost optimization, workload right-sizing, and spend reporting to leadership.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for infrastructure incidents and lead postmortems with preventive follow-through.
- Ensure infrastructure meets healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Flexible spending account and health savings account.
- Flex Time Off and company holidays.
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Pet insurance.
- Bonus included as part of the total benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
