We are creating a healthier future by connecting the world with the right doctors.
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll automate infrastructure provisioning, maintain CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot systems, and optimize cloud performance, focusing on AWS.
Summary Generated by Built In
At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is a basic human right. Our mission is to provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally. This promotes health equity and builds needed trust in healthcare systems. To accomplish this our teams harness the power of data and AI-technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert those insights into actions that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerates an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle. Visit h1.co to learn more about us.
The DevOps team is responsible for all aspects of application and infrastructure operations, reliability, and deployment pipelines for our cloud applications. As H1 continues to scale globally—supporting new geographies, customers, and data-intensive services—we are investing deeply in cloud reliability, security, and developer enablement.
WHAT YOU'LL DO AT H1
As a Senior DevOps / AWS Cloud Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, scaling, and operating H1’s cloud infrastructure. You will serve as a technical leader within the DevOps function, partnering closely with engineering, data, and security teams to ensure our platforms are highly available, secure, and efficient.
This is a hands-on, senior-level role focused on cloud architecture, automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence in a fast-paced, AWS-first environment.
You will:
- Architect, automate, and scale AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), enabling secure and reliable self-service for engineering teams
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows across a growing portfolio of services and applications
- Lead efforts to improve system reliability, availability, observability, and performance across production environments
- Serve as a senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents, driving incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies to proactively identify and resolve system issues
- Partner with engineering and data teams to support containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based services (Amazon EKS)
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability using metrics, forecasting, and usage analysis
- Champion cloud security best practices, IAM design, and infrastructure governance in partnership with security stakeholders
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement new tools and services that improve platform reliability and developer experience
- Mentor and support other DevOps engineers through technical guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Participate in a light on-call rotation and help mature operational processes and runbooks
ABOUT YOU
You are a senior-level DevOps engineer with deep experience operating and scaling cloud-native platforms in AWS. You are comfortable owning complex systems in production and enjoy solving reliability, performance, and automation challenges at scale. You bring a strong sense of ownership, technical judgment, and collaboration, and you thrive in environments where your work directly enables product teams and customers.
You are equally comfortable being hands-on with infrastructure and serving as a trusted technical partner across teams. You value clean automation, strong observability, and thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and security.
You Bring:
-A proven track record designing, implementing, and supporting highly available, 24x7 SaaS platforms in AWS
- Deep experience with cloud-native and containerized architectures in production environments
- Strong working knowledge of networking fundamentals (HTTP/S, SSH, VPNs, firewalls, VPC design)
- Experience contributing to security governance, infrastructure standards, and compliance initiatives
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and non-engineering teams
- A team-first mindset and commitment to building inclusive, scalable engineering practices
REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure, with significant experience in AWS
- Deep expertise in AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, and security (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, etc.)
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Extensive experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI
- Solid experience supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, including Amazon EKS
- Strong experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch)
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python and Bash
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM, and incident response processes
- Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements
LOCATION & WORKING HOURS
- This role is open to candidates located in the Eastern or Central time zones
- Candidates must be willing to work East Coast hours and flex schedules as needed to support 9:00am–5:00pm EST collaboration with clients and global teams
COMPENSATION
This role pays $120,000 to $145,000 per year, based on experience, in addition to stock options.
Anticipated role close date: 3/5/2026
H1 OFFERS
- Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
- Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
- Retirement options
- Health & charitable donation stipends
- Impactful Business Resource Groups
- Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere
- The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe
H1 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy), age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
H1 is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter once you've begun the interview process. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.
Top Skills
AWS
Bash
CircleCI
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Eks
Elk
Github Actions
Grafana
Kubernetes
Opensearch
Prometheus
Python
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Access to medicine and healthcare is a basic human right. At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is also a basic human right, one that will be more important in the 21st century than ever before.
Our commitment to creating a healthier future for everyone drives us to build and maintain the most current, accurate, and comprehensive healthcare knowledge base available, as well as the tools and intelligence to extract unparalleled insights to carry global healthcare forward.
Why Work With Us
We’re a team of people building products that help solve difficult problems in healthcare. We work through complex challenges every day, navigating ambiguity, wrestling with uncertainty, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible–all while caring deeply about one another and the people we seek to help.
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