Senior DevOps Engineer

Posted Oct 24

Alto provides an easier, more efficient and more affordable pharmacy experience for patients, providers, and partners. Our full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy makes it simple for patients to live their healthiest life, while our technology empowers partners with automated and customizable solutions for the entire pharmacy value stream. To learn more about Alto, you can review our Founders’ Story and our Values. 

As a Senior Engineer on our DevSecOps team at Alto Pharmacy, you will collaborate closely with our engineering, IT, and compliance teams to evolve our technical infrastructure, developer tooling and development and security practices to keep our systems running reliably and securely. Your expertise will help us maintain the highest standards of operational excellence and data security in the online pharmacy space.

Example Projects:

  • Design a Kubernetes operator to manage the lifecycle of complex applications
  • Introducing a new component to our infrastructure (e.g. a new type of database), researching the operational requirements of deploying the component at scale in a production environment and implementing the Terraform modules, Kubernetes resource definitions, etc. needed
  • Build tooling to detect and assist with upgrades of critical packages and infrastructure components

Accelerate Your Career as You

Infrastructure

  • Own our cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, databases and networks, using Terraform to manage resources as code
  • Keep the components of our infrastructure up-to-date by continuously applying upgrades and leveraging new capabilities as they become available

Observability

  • Equip our engineering team with the tools they need to detect problems and understand their causes quickly and effectively
  • Deploy tools to collect and visualize metrics, traces and logs providing deep insight into the behavior of our system
  • Monitor operational and security alerts, and lead response and remediation efforts

Developer Experience

  • Maintain and enhance the tools we use to test and deploy our applications, including CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, and Kubernetes operators
  • Eliminate toil with automation to improve developer velocity and satisfaction

Security

  • Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to ensure our users and systems have access to the information they need and nothing more
  • Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability testing, and infrastructure audits
  • Continuously evaluate and improve our security posture

Collaboration

  • Work across teams to understand the infrastructure needs of our internal and external stakeholders
  • Educate the engineering team on principles for building reliable software and security best practices

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or information security, preferably in the healthcare or online services industry.
  • You currently hold the title of DevOps Engineer or SRE.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Experience with Python, GoLang, Javascript or Typescript, SQL/R, Ruby on Rails, Java, React, React Native, Swift, or Kotlin
  • Experience with O&O tools like Grafana, Amplitude, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sumologic, or Splunk
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms like Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Concourse
  • Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools to manage cloud infrastructure (we use Terraform)
  • Familiarity with MLOps and ML platforms like MLFlow, Kubeflow, AWS Sagemaker, Google Cortex is a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Understanding of best practices for operating a reliable and secure Kubernetes cluster
  • Experience with building infrastructure and tooling for a service-oriented architecture
  • Experience working across teams to identify opportunities to improve developer experience
  • Experience with security tools and technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and endpoint protection.
  • Familiarity with healthcare-specific security challenges and compliance requirements

Additional Physical Job Requirements

  • Reading English, comprehending, and following simple oral and written instructions. 
  • The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading. Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
  • Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. 
  • Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound. 
  • Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer or phone that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
  • Environmental Conditions: occasional exposure to low temperatures or high temperatures, outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind, and noisy environments.
  • Physical Activities: 
  1. Occasionally ascending or descending stairs, ramps and the like.
  2. Moving about to accomplish tasks and/or moving from one worksite to another. 
  3. Adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds in all directions. 
  4. Operating motor vehicles.
  5. Occasional sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing/driving/flying

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $136,800 - 171,000

Commission Eligible: No

Equity Eligible: Yes

Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time . Engineering on/off sites.

Location Requirement: Employment at Alto is limited to individuals residing in the following states: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Illinois, New York, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, Washington (WA), Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

Employment Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. At this time, Alto is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Benefits: Full-time: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Group Life, AD&D, Employer paid STD/LTD, generous PTO and parental leave.  

Application deadline: October 31, 2024

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Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation during any portion of the application or hiring process, please contact us at hr@alto.com. Alto Pharmacy considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment and conducts background checks consistent with applicable law, including the California, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, and New York City Fair Chance laws. We are an E-Verify participating company.To learn about Alto's privacy practices including compliance with applicable privacy laws, please click here.