Senior Cloud Engineer

Who We Are:

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company.  Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.  With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

• Integrity: Always operate with honesty and transparency so we earn the trust of our clients.
• Courage: Demonstrate the courage needed to take on a broken industry and continuously improve what we offer to optimize health outcomes.
• Together: Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment that values teamwork, respect, and open communication, and encourages creativity and diversity of thought.

Job Summary:

We are looking for an Sr. Cloud Engineer who has hands-on experience building and managing a cloud-based infrastructure.  Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for development cycles in integration/continuous deployment mode, process monitoring, and more broadly, constructing a “safety culture” within the SmithRx’s DevSecOps practice.  Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure.

In order to be eligible for this position applicants must be based in on of the following states: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

What You Will Do: 

• Help build and maintain a container based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable and compliant, and support the rest of the team doing the same.
• Be part of SmithRx Agile development team to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in AWS. .
• Gain a deep understanding of the challenges that SmithRx faces, technical and otherwise; collaborate with other teams to identify and carry out effective solutions.
• Work closely with our development team to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and perform root cause analysis when necessary.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure that applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind.
• Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively
• Be a pillar of a collaborative learning culture through exploration of new technologies, application of best practices, and any other innovations you would like to experiment with.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices.
• Understand the health regulatory space and maintain continuous compliance on frameworks like HIPAA, and SOC2.
• Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization.
• Be a part of on-call PagerDuty rotations.

What you will bring to SmithRx:

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering.
• BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field.
• Extensive experience working in containerized Cloud Native environments, specifically AWS and Kubernetes/EKS. 
• Experience using modern monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, Event Bridge, DataDog etc., and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming and dashboards.
• Experience managing change management practices, policies and procedures. 
• Experience deploying and monitoring applications in AWS at scale.
• Security first mindset, including demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated to CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles.
• Experience building and maintaining a container based infrastructure and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience a plus), DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging.
• Experience with FinOps practices and establishing related governance programs.
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as GitHub Actions. 
• Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred.
• Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like RDS, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, , PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Shell etc.

What SmithRx Offers You: 

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Spending Benefits 
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program 
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Discretionary Paid Time Off 
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Wellness Benefits
• Commuter Benefits 
• Paid Parental Leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
• Professional development and training opportunities