DevOps DBA Engineer
About Us:
Qventus is a real-time decision making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can focus on delivering the best possible care to patients. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to create products that help nurses, doctors, and hospital staff anticipate issues and make operational decisions proactively.
About the Role:
Are you the next Qventoid? We’re looking for a experienced professional in the field of DevOps to make a significant contribution to our growing infrastructure for the delivery of wellness services to hospitals in real-time. The DevOps DBA Engineer will be involved in the maintenance, scalability, and security of the company's database infrastructure. They will also be responsible for general DevOps duties including the support of infrastructure components.
About the Key Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for database administration and Linux administration with subject matter expertise in the optimization of complex queries.
- Identify and resolve database performance issues.
- Manage database configuration and scaling for various workloads.
- Collaborating with software development teams on data architecture best practices, cost optimization, and scalability.
- Implementing monitors and dashboards/KPIs to track the health of databases.
About What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of DevOps engineering experience and comfort working with Python, Golang, Node, or other frameworks used for automation.
- 5+ years working with database platforms such as MySQL/Aurora RDS and Snowflake.
- Must be mid-expert level working with AWS DevOps (AWS certification is preferred)
- Ops: Experience working with Linux; Strong understanding of underlying principles. Kernel services such as cron, systemctl, and SELinux.
- Networking: Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP, TCP Extensions, Tunneling, IPSEC, VPCs, VPNs, external Gateways, and Transit Gateways; Route propagation and its use in failover. Strong understanding of standard services, like HTTPS, SMTP, SSH, and NFS.
- Containers: Deployment and development experience using Docker; Experience configuring Kubernetes clusters in a GitOps environment. Experience with Fargate, and alternative clustering arrangements.
- Cloud Native: Experience provisioning inside a cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Comfortable in a small, fast-paced, high-quality team environment.
- Deep passion for application architecture, infrastructure automation, systems and integration design, API, and application development.
It’s a Plus if You Have…
- A general comprehension of lambda and data pipelines for message passing, in AWS.
- Automation experience: Terraform module creation; AWS components such as SSM (documents; parameter store); Experience with GitHub, automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and similar tools.
- How to find out what you don’t know: Skilled use of Google, Stack Overflow, and community resources to find answers quickly when problems arise.
- Staying abreast of engineering trends. We don’t work in silos. It’s important to understand what’s coming, as well as what is here, today.
- An understanding of the core tenets of the DevOps philosophy: Transparency; Reproducibility; Automation; Scale.
- How to Identify the most impactful short-term goals, and then reinvest the time dividends from previous projects to go further.
- Knowledge of secure protocols: TLS, ssh, ssm, saml2, and similar technologies used to arrange permissions for users across multiple accounts and cloud platforms.
Qventus is on a mission to take modern technologies and principles that have been proven in other industries — artificial intelligence, machine learning, behavioral science, and data science — and apply them to simplify healthcare operations. At Qventus, you will have the opportunity to work with an exceptional, mission-driven team, and the ability to directly impact the lives of patients. We’re inspired to work with healthcare leaders on our founding vision and unlock world-class medicine through world-class operations.
The salary range for this role is [$145,000 to $160,000]. This salary represents the middle to the high end of market data across different geographies. We consider several factors when determining compensation, including location, experience, and the role’s responsibilities. Salary/OTE is just one component of Qventus’ total rewards package. Our benefits and perks currently include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage with a 90% employer paid premiums for employees option
- Generous HSA contribution, when elected and participating in an eligible plan, up to $1,500 annual company contribution
- Employer provided (100% paid) Short Term and Long Term Disability insurance and Basic Life and AD&D insurance
- 100% paid Parental and Pregnancy Leave
- Monthly Wellness and Technology stipend up to $50 per
- Ability to participate in the 401(k) plan administered by Voya
- Option to purchase awarded common stock shares as approved by the Company’s Board of Directors in accordance the plan
We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to improving healthcare and society, and that’s why we’re building a company that leads the way. We hold ourselves accountable to using fair hiring processes that mitigate the negative impacts of unconscious bias. We also work to ensure that people from underrepresented groups play meaningful roles on both sides of the interview table. We are an equal-opportunity employer and give all qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our candidate privacy notice which can be found here: https://qventus.com/ccpa-privacy-notice/
This position does not provide visa sponsorship.
Employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of our pre-employment background investigation and drug test.