Claritas Rx, a venture-backed digital health startup, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. This role is crucial for ensuring reliable delivery pipelines and automated infrastructure management for platforms handling complex specialty biopharmaceutical data.

This is a full-time position based in Washington, D.C., US, but requires candidates to be based in or able to work standard business hours in the Pacific Time zone. The salary range is $125,000 – $140,000 / year.

Role Summary and AWS Automation Mandate

The DevOps Engineer will be the go-to expert for AWS infrastructure, working closely with engineering, analytics, and product teams. This role requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and deep expertise in infrastructure automation to support both backend and user-facing application platforms at scale in a SaaS, healthcare, or life sciences environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Automation (IaC): Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation pipelines using tools like Ansible, CDK, and AWS CodePipelines.
• AWS Core Services Oversight: Manage, monitor, and optimize a comprehensive suite of AWS services, including:
  • Compute & Networking: EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, ELB, Route 53, WorkSpaces, VPN.
  • Data Services: RDS, DynamoDB, DMS, S3, Glue, Athena.
  • Security & Compliance: IAM Identity Center, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudTrail, Systems Manager.
  • Messaging & Eventing: SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Lambda.
• Observability & Incident Response: Ensure proactive monitoring and incident response using tools such as CloudWatch and Splunk.
• CI/CD & Developer Experience: Support CI/CD pipelines (Github, Bitbucket, AWS pipelines) and partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience, reliability, and scalability.
• Data Pipelines: Manage data and analytics pipeline tools like Airflow and Tableau.

Required Experience and Technical Qualifications

The ideal candidate has significant, hands-on experience across the core AWS ecosystem, specializing in automation, security, and containerization.

• Experience (Required):
  • 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering, supporting production workloads (ideally in SaaS or Healthcare).
  • Proven track record of automating infrastructure and deployments using tools such as Ansible, CDK, Terraform/CloudFormation, or CodePipeline/CodeBuild.
• Core Technical Stack:
  • Strong hands-on expertise with common AWS services (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ECS/ECR, Lambda, etc.).
  • Skilled in containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS).
  • Experienced in monitoring, observability, and incident response with CloudWatch, Splunk, and related tooling.
  • Familiar with data and analytics ecosystems (Glue, Athena, Tableau, RDS, DMS).
  • Strong background in networking, DNS, and VPNs (including Route 53 management).
  • Solid understanding of security, compliance, and identity management (WAF, MFA, IAM Identity Center).
• Soft Skills: Must be a self-starter, adept at working cross-functionally, and possess strong communication skills.