Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

Posted 24 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Indianapolis, IN, USA
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Healthtech • Database
The Role
Operate and improve cloud-native application infrastructure on AWS, owning infrastructure-as-code and release processes. Implement and remediate security findings, maintain monitoring/alerting and observability, manage CI/CD pipelines, automate with scripting, and ensure reliable event processing and idempotency across distributed systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
  • Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes 
  • Release Management: Take releases, own process and relevant improvements, and drive to success; 
  • Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time 
Responsibilities

Application Operations

  • Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:
    • Lambdas
    • DynamoDB
    • API Gateway
    • SNS
    • SQS
    • SES
    • Cognito
    • IAM
    • S3
    • EventBridge

Cybersecurity 

  • Distill findings from security team and address any actions
  • Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
  • Create actionable list of items
  • Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
  • Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans

Reporting & Observability

  • Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
  • Configuration of notification mechanisms
Qualifications

Required Work Experience: 

  • 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)

Knowledge: 

  • Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
  • Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
  • Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls

Skills: 

  • Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
  • Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
  • Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
  • Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
  • Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: 

  • HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
  • AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
  • Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
  • FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
About the Team Quest Diagnostics honors our service members and encourages veterans to apply.
While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets or any other legally protected status.

Skills Required

  • 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)
  • Hands-on experience configuring and managing AWS serverless services: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, S3, SES, Cognito, IAM
  • Strong understanding of serverless architectures
  • Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization: OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
  • Familiarity with security/compliance frameworks: OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls
  • Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD or similar) and writing pipeline/config files
  • Experience with security tooling: SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
  • Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana or equivalent)
  • Strong scripting for automation and incident response (Bash, Python, or Node.js)
  • Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems
  • Experience with release management and owning infrastructure code
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
  • AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
  • Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
  • FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture
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The Company
HQ: Secaucus, NJ
25,839 Employees
Year Founded: 1967

What We Do

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 47,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. The company offers physicians the broadest test menu (3,000+ tests), is a pioneer in developing innovative new tests, is the leader in cancer diagnostics, provides anatomic pathology (AP) services, & interpretive consultation through its medical & scientific staff of about 900 M.D.s & Ph.D.s. The company reported 2020 revenues of $9.44 billion. Quest Diagnostics offers the most extensive clinical testing network in the U.S., with laboratories in most major metropolitan areas, & in Mexico, the UK & India. The company also operates four esoteric laboratories, 40 outpatient AP laboratories, & 160 smaller, rapid-response laboratories. Patients may have specimens collected in any of the company’s approximately 2,250 patient service centers. On a typical workday, testing is performed for about 550,000 patients. Quest Diagnostics empowers healthcare organizations & clinicians with state-of-the-art connectivity solutions. The company is the leading provider of pre-employment drugs-of-abuse screening for employers & risk assessment services for the life insurance industry. It is the world’s 2nd largest provider of clinical trials testing for new pharmaceuticals. More information is available at www.questdiagnostics.com. Language Assistance / Non-Discrimination Notice Asistencia de Idiomas / Aviso de no Discriminación 語言協助 / 不歧視通知 www.QuestDiagnostics.com/home/nondiscrimination

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