Associate Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer

About Us 

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience in the United States (U.S.) across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.

Why We Do What We Do 

In the U.S., consumers, payers, and providers face significant challenges throughout the healthcare financial journey. Zelis helps streamline the process by offering solutions that improve transparency, efficiency, and communication among all parties involved. By addressing the obstacles that patients face in accessing care, navigating the intricacies of insurance claims, and the logistical challenges healthcare providers encounter with processing payments, Zelis aims to create a more seamless and effective healthcare financial system.

Zelis India plays a crucial role in this mission by supporting various initiatives that enhance the healthcare financial experience. The local team contributes to the development and implementation of innovative solutions, ensuring that technology and processes are optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Beyond operational expertise, Zelis India cultivates a collaborative work culture, leadership development, and global exposure, creating a dynamic environment for professional growth. With hybrid work flexibility, comprehensive healthcare benefits, financial wellness programs, and cultural celebrations, we foster a holistic workplace experience. Additionally, the team plays a vital role in maintaining high standards of service delivery and contributes to Zelis’ award-winning culture. 

Position Overview

Overview

At Zelis, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. We are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction. The SRE engineer would be responsible for leading and executing SRE initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure that systems are reliable, scalable, and available.

Essential Duties and Functions

•         Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.

• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.

• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.

• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.

• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.

• Measure, monitor, and report of availability, latency, and overall system health based on SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.

• Participating in blameless postmortems to identify resilience and reliability improvements.

•         Triaging, routing, and resolution of issues and incidents identified by both internal and external stakeholders.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

•         3+ years as an engineer in Infrastructure, Operations, DevOps, or Software Development experience.

•         Applicable higher education, or equivalent work experience.

•         Knowledgeable in SRE tools such as infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and incident management software.

•         Cloud experience with Azure or AWS.

• Ability to program with one or more languages, such as PowerShell, Python, Java, C#, Ruby, and JavaScript.

• Experience with cloud services such as Azure, and the supporting technologies.

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases.

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.

• A collaborative spirit and you enjoy working with a team to build things.

•         A desire to continually improve and you value giving and receiving constant and constructive feedback.

•         Documentation of tribal knowledge to reduce knowledge silos and reliance on institutional memory to support and maintain reliable systems.

• A collaborative spirit and you enjoy working with a team to build things.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

At Zelis, we champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our operations. We embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at Zelis, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Accessibility Support

We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email [email protected].