Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.
Job Description- To support our rapid growth, the Enterprise Software Cloud Engineering team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to elevate our production operations and observability.
- You'll work with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Java, Python, Ruby, and databases like MongoDB, Postgres, and Oracle.
- Support and enhance our CI/CD pipelines and release processes for zero-downtime deployments.
- Lead infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Rafay, and Opsera.
- Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments (AWS/GCP), ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
- Partner with development teams to implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions (e. g., New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).
- Improve operational excellence through cost optimisation, reliability, and sustainable incident response.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define SLIs/SLOs and enhance system observability.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps best practices across the team.
- 8+ years of industry experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Deep experience with public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), including networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
- Extensive experience managing on-premise systems, including VMware infrastructure, Linux environments, and shell scripting
- Strong hands-on knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Proficient in CI/CD tooling (e. g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and version control (Git).
- Automation experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Strong Linux administration experience (RHEL, CentOS).
- Experience supporting and scaling production systems and participating in on-call rotations.
- Solid understanding of system monitoring, logging, and tracing
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What We Do
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR screening program, which aims to address the needs of asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.
