Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Stellar Health is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, DevOps, you will collaborate daily with fellow DevOps engineers and cross-functional engineering teams to build a scalable, high-performing foundation. Our team exists to enable product engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality software quickly and safely. We build the foundation of our engineering organization, providing a delivery platform, shared infrastructure, architectural standards, and technical guidance. Our mission is to provide a stable, scalable, and secure internal platform that empowers engineering teams to self-serve infrastructure, deploy confidently, and operate production systems with high reliability. We apply DevOps principles, collaboration, automation, and shared ownership, but we don't own product features or business logic. Our role is to remove friction, improve reliability, and scale engineering effectiveness.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or related role, including hands-on ownership of production cloud infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with AWS services (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM, VPC, and others), multi-account AWS architecture, and HIPAA/compliance-aware infrastructure patterns
- Strong IaC skills - Terraform and/or Terragrunt in a production environment, including state management and drift detection
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), including safe deployment patterns like Blue/Green
- Solid scripting ability in Python and/or Bash
- Demonstrated experience with observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
- Ability to debug complex, cross-system issues without flailing
- Experience mentoring or guiding earlier-career engineers
- Strong written communication skills; comfortable writing design docs, runbooks, and async technical updates
- Familiarity with database operations (Postgres, Redis) in a production context
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of core platform initiatives
- Mentor junior engineers
- Partner cross-functionally across Engineering, Data, and Product
- Design and maintain HIPAA-compliant, multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt with a strict GitOps mindset
- Build resilient GitHub Actions pipelines and implement safe release strategies (e.g., Blue/Green, automated rollbacks) for Python/Django applications
- Ensure high availability, automated backups, and version upgrades for core data stores, including Postgres, ElastiCache (Redis), and OpenSearch
- Mature full-stack Datadog/CloudWatch telemetry, refine on-call workflows, lead blameless postmortems, and drive key metrics (MTTR, deployment frequency)
- Enforce least-privilege access and automated security guardrails across AWS, database layers, and GitHub
- Create paved-path tooling and self-serve infrastructure that reduce friction, shorten test cycles, and lower cognitive load for product teams
- Author clear design docs, conduct thorough code reviews, mentor team members, and proactively identify operational risks before they impact production
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Universal Paid Family and Caregiver Leave
- Wellhub+ Gym Memberships
- Pre-tax commuter benefits, HA, FSA plans
- Company sponsored One Medical memberships and Citibike memberships
- Medical Travel Benefits
- JOON, a flexible lifestyle spending account that gives our team a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to them
- Stock Options & a 401k matching program
- A broad calendar of company sponsored social events that for our in-office and remote employees
- Company sponsored lunch for all NY HQ employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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