Senior DevOps Engineer
AP MAX INC
Summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in scaling and securing Allia Health Group's cloud infrastructure and operations. Reporting to the Principal Cloud & Security Ops Engineer, this role focuses on automation, observability, and operational resilience across production systems. The successful candidate will ensure high availability, performance, and security of services, while mentoring engineers and promoting modern DevOps practices.
Job description
Job Summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in scaling and securing Allia Health Group's cloud infrastructure and operations. Reporting to the Principal Cloud & Security Ops Engineer, this role focuses on automation, observability, and operational resilience across production systems. The successful candidate will ensure high availability, performance, and security of services, while mentoring engineers and promoting modern DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents).
- Oversee containerized environments with Kubernetes and Docker in production.
- Implement observability tools for monitoring, alerting, and logging.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
- Collaborate with development teams to embed DevOps best practices across the stack.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to ensure operational continuity.
Required Qualifications
- Ideal Degree(s): BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field
- Experience: 4–7 years in DevOps, InfraOps, or cloud engineering roles
- Strong experience with Google Cloud (AWS/Azure acceptable)
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents)
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalents)
- Strong background in observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and secure configurations
- Hands-on experience with incident response and system troubleshooting
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred: Google Cloud; Looker; Vertex AI; UiPath; N8N; CI/CD with GitHub & Google Cloud; React; PostgreSQL; Docker; Kubernetes; and other role-adjacent tools.
- Candidates with AWS experience are welcome but Google Cloud is preferred.
Physical Requirements
- Working in Madeira in a shared office space, remote in Portugal, or remote in a Portuguese timezone-friendly location.
- Flexibility to shift portions of the day to increase timezone overlap with US CST timezone.
Requirements
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field
- 4–7 years in DevOps, InfraOps, or cloud engineering roles
- Strong experience with Google Cloud (AWS/Azure acceptable)
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents)
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalents)
- Strong background in observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and secure configurations
- Hands-on experience with incident response and system troubleshooting
Benefits
- Paid time off
- EOR contract
- Quarterly bonuses
Company overview
AP MAX INC is a retail pharmacy company operating in the healthcare sector, specializing in pharmaceutical retail services. As a retail pharmacy provider, the company focuses on dispensing prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, and healthcare products to consumers. Retail pharmacies like AP MAX INC play a crucial role in the healthcare ecosystem by providing accessible medication distribution, patient counseling, and medication management services. These establishments typically offer a range of healthcare products including prescription drugs, medical supplies, personal care items, and health monitoring devices. Retail pharmacies serve as important community healthcare access points, often providing immunization services, health screenings, and medication therapy management. The company operates within the competitive retail pharmacy landscape, which includes both independent pharmacies and larger chain operations. AP MAX INC's business model centers on pharmaceutical retail operations, customer service, and healthcare product distribution, contributing to the broader healthcare delivery system by ensuring medication accessibility and supporting patient health outcomes through professional pharmacy services.