[Remote] DevOps Engineer IV
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Availity is a leading healthcare engagement platform delivering revenue cycle and related business solutions. As a DevOps Engineer IV, you will lead the design, implementation, and management of cloud-native infrastructure with a focus on Kubernetes and AWS EKS, driving platform reliability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, primarily on AWS EKS
- Build and maintain containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes best practices
- Define and enforce standards for containerization, deployment patterns, and cluster operations
- Implement scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant platform architectures
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Develop reusable modules and automation frameworks to enable self-service infrastructure
- Drive infrastructure standardization, cost optimization, and performance improvements
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support containerized application delivery
- Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
- Enable development teams with tooling, templates, and best practices for DevOps adoption
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure
- Define SLOs/SLIs and drive improvements in system reliability and performance
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous improvement efforts
- Ensure Kubernetes and cloud environments meet security and compliance standards
- Implement secure configurations, access controls, and audit capabilities
- Partner with InfoSec teams to manage risk and compliance initiatives
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing technical guidance and career development support
- Collaborate with Cloud Architects and cross-functional teams to define platform strategy
- Contribute to technical documentation, architecture reviews, and internal knowledge sharing
- Leading Kubernetes (EKS) platform strategy and operational excellence initiatives
- Driving containerization and modernization efforts across applications
- Partnering with engineering teams to optimize deployment and runtime performance
- Supporting incident response and participating in on-call rotations
- Continuously improving automation, observability, and reliability capabilities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5–7 years of progressive experience in cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes including production cluster operations
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker
- Deep experience with AWS, including Amazon EKS
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation)
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or similar)
- Strong scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Experience with Git-based workflows and version control best practices
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies
- Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root cause analysis experience
- Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes-specific certifications such as CKA/CKAD)
- Experience implementing security best practices for Kubernetes (RBAC, network policies, secrets management)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Experience with multi-cluster or hybrid Kubernetes environments
Benefits
- We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
- We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
- We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
- We offer education reimbursement!
- Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
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