Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary: We are looking for a Senior MLOps Platform Engineer to join the Analytics & AI division at athenahealth in Bangalore. This role is part of the growing MLOps Engineering team focused on designing, building, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms that power machine learning and analytics workloads. The ideal candidate will bring strong backend and platform engineering expertise with hands-on experience in Python, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms, preferably AWS. This role offers the opportunity to build scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure that supports advanced analytics and AI capabilities across athenahealth’s ecosystem.
About the Team: The Analytics & AI team at athenahealth leverages large-scale healthcare data to deliver intelligent insights and data-driven solutions. The Platform Engineering team builds the foundational infrastructure, automation frameworks, and cloud-native services that enable scalable machine learning, analytics, and MLOps capabilities. Team members collaborate closely with data science, DevOps, and engineering organizations to improve operational efficiency, platform reliability, and innovation across athenahealth’s AI and analytics ecosystem.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and scale cloud-native infrastructure and platform services supporting analytics and machine learning workloads
Build backend services, automation frameworks, and operational tooling using Python
Deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads for production-scale environments
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational readiness across cloud-native environments
Partner with data science, DevOps, and engineering teams to support ML deployment pipelines and platform enablement
Contribute to technical architecture discussions, agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and engineering best practices
Additional Job Responsibilities:
Improve observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting systems across platform environments
Optimize platform performance, infrastructure efficiency, and operational reliability
Support CI/CD pipeline enhancements and cloud-native deployment automation initiatives
Promote platform engineering standards, operational best practices, and scalable architecture patterns
Mentor junior engineers and support knowledge sharing within the engineering organization
Collaborate on cloud security, service mesh, and infrastructure governance initiatives
Contribute to continuous improvements in MLOps tooling and machine learning infrastructure operations
Expected Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
4–9 years of experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
Strong programming expertise in Python
Hands-on experience managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters and workloads
Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms, preferably AWS and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, cloud-native architectures, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
Familiarity with Kubeflow, service mesh technologies like Istio, and databases such as Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Redis is a plus
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
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