Senior DevOps Engineer

Meet Instinct 👋

Instinct Science is an animal health software company that helps the world’s leading veterinary practices enhance patient care, improve staff efficiency, and minimize burnout. Our easy-to-use platform acts as the nerve center for veterinarians, veterinary nurses, and support staff alike, fostering seamless collaboration across teams. With our January 2024 acquisition of VetMedux, a trusted education (Clinician’s Brief) and point-of-care information (Plumb’s Veterinary Drugs) company for veterinarians, Instinct has strengthened our commitment to delivering the mission-critical tools veterinary practices need to care for their patients at the highest level and with the best outcomes

We’re fueled by compassion Our team, our customers, and their patients and animal owners matter immensely to us. We put the Customer First; Act with Grace, Not Teeth; Do the Right Things for the Right Reasons; and know that Excellence is in our DNA. 

If these values speak to you, you might be a good fit for our Senior DevOps Engineer opening.

A Sneak Peek of Your Role 🔭 

This job, and the team at Instinct, is remote.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key player in driving innovation and operational excellence. Our team operates on the belief that "DevOps owns nothing”. What we build is designed to be approachable, maintainable, and accessible to everyone. You will lead by example, fostering a culture where "Everyone is a lead", taking initiative, and supporting others to grow and succeed. Trust, collaboration, and purpose-driven innovation will be at the heart of everything you do.

What You’ll Do 🐱‍💻

• Design and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure that minimizes complexity and cognitive load for contributors.
• Build and scale Kubernetes environments, ensuring ease of use and maintainability for future stakeholders.

• Pioneer AWS architecture with a focus on IAM best practices and security-first solutions, while mentoring others to contribute with confidence.
• Drive seamless cloud migrations or mergers, ensuring all teams can easily build on your groundwork.

• Develop and implement disaster recovery plans that instill confidence across teams and stakeholders.
• Embed DevSecOps practices into pipelines, fostering a security mindset across the organization.

• Build tools and systems that serve future maintainers, ensuring they are intuitive, well-documented, and reliable.
• Leverage Datadog best practices to create observability frameworks that help everyone monitor and optimize our systems with ease.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions while mentoring and supporting team members.
• Encourage exploration and celebrate creativity in solving technical challenges.

Who You Are 🐱‍💻

• Must Haves:
  • 5+ years in DevOps with expertise in extensive AWS cloud-first architecture.
  • Proficiency in Terraform and IaC best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and scaling.
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services, including IAM, and proven ability to optimize cloud environments.
  • Experience leading cloud environment migrations or mergers with minimal disruption.
  • Expertise in disaster recovery planning and execution.
  • Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and security integration.
  • Proficiency with Datadog for monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization.
• Nice-to-Haves:
  • Familiarity with compliance standards like SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
  • Experience with scripting or programming languages like Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Background in cost optimization and performance tuning in cloud environments.

How Instinct will Care about YOU 🌞

• We offer a supportive and caring work environment.
• We are transparent, open, honest, and empathic, both internally and externally.
• We pay our team well. 
• We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and 401K with match.
• We give our team owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays.
• We offer a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work.
• We offer a rewarding employee stock plan so that you share in our success.
• We provide all-expense-paid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat.

Base Compensation range for this role is $130,000 - $160,000.

Instinct is an equal opportunity employer committed to equality and providing a pleasant work environment free from harassment or discrimination in any form. All employees will be treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, ancestry, veteran, or disability status.

If you require accommodations throughout any part of the pre-employment process, please contact our People team at peopleteam@instinct.vet