DevOps Director

3 months ago

Newtown Square, United States Alivia Analytics Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Description: DevOps Director – Cloud (Azure/AWS) Infrastructure

Position: DevOps Manager – Cloud (Azure/AWS) Infrastructure
Location: Remote or Philadelphia
Reports To: Chief Architect
Employment Type: Full-Time

Company Overview:
Alivia Analytics is at the forefront of healthcare payment integrity solutions, helping healthcare organizations in both the public and private sectors combat fraud, waste, and abuse. We use cutting-edge technology, AI, predictive models, and optimization algorithms to build innovative healthcare applications. We are committed to becoming the world leader in healthcare payment integrity, and we are looking for brilliant, motivated individuals to join our team as we work toward this vision.

Job Overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for a seasoned DevOps Manager with extensive experience in AWS and/or Azure Cloud Infrastructure to join our growing team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining a lean, agile DevOps culture, while overseeing the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and healthcare applications. These applications leverage advanced technologies such as AI, predictive modeling, and SQL to enhance healthcare payment integrity by detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. As part of our dynamic team, you will work closely with leadership, developers, and users to present and optimize cutting-edge solutions, ensuring we continue our journey to becoming the global leader in healthcare payment integrity.

Key Responsibilities:

DevOps Engineering Manager

  • Lead and manage a team of seasoned DevOps engineers, driving the design, deployment, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure clouds.
  • You will be responsible for ensuring the team follows best practices in automation, CI/CD pipelines, security, and cloud cost optimization, while fostering collaboration with development and operations teams to support our rapidly growing SaaS healthcare platform.

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

  • Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Oversee deployment processes across On-premises Bare-metal, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.
  • Provision and manage cloud resources using Terraform, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools for automation, orchestration, and infrastructure as code (IaC).

CI/CD Pipeline Management:

  • Implement, maintain, and enhance Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Enterprise to automate software delivery and ensure reliable, frequent releases.
  • Research, develop, and apply Azure DevOps processes and tools to enable CI/CD pipelines in a multi-cloud environment.
  • Collaborate with development teams to automate the deployment of AI-driven applications for fraud detection, predictive modeling, and optimization algorithms.

Security and Compliance:

  • Establish and integrate best-in-class security practices, tools, and governance across the DevOps pipelines to improve code quality and system resilience.
  • Ensure adherence to industry security and compliance standards, particularly for healthcare applications, in cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Collaborate with security teams to safeguard sensitive healthcare data from fraud and breaches.

Automation and Tooling:

  • Automate repetitive tasks such as deployments, monitoring, scaling, and system updates across the cloud infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerization technologies.
  • Establish a Lean, Agile-based DevOps culture with security and compliance as foundational pillars.
  • Manage the source code repository with GitHub Enterprise and maintain project tracking using Atlassian Jira.

Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning:

  • Monitor and optimize cloud resource performance to ensure efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, particularly for applications handling large healthcare data sets.
  • Conduct capacity planning to ensure the infrastructure can handle increasing traffic and workloads from predictive models and data analysis processes.

Collaboration and Leadership:

  • Lead a cross-functional team of DevOps engineers, developers, architects, and testers to build and deploy new application environments on cloud.
  • Engage with stakeholders, leadership, and development teams to align cloud strategies with technical and business objectives.
  • Act as a liaison between technology teams and healthcare industry stakeholders, presenting updates and demonstrating the impact of the solutions on payment integrity and fraud reduction.

Incident Management and Troubleshooting:

  • Set up and maintain monitoring tools and dashboards to track system performance, uptime, and reliability. Implement robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms to promptly respond to incidents.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application outages by coordinating with operations and development teams.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Diagnose and triage technical errors, data issues, and performance challenges, and drive continuous process improvement.
  • Proactively seek feedback to improve deployment processes, monitoring strategies, and system performance.

Documentation:

  • Create, implement, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure designs, deployment procedures, and incident resolutions.
  • Ensure that all processes are well-documented to maintain clarity and knowledge sharing across teams.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps practices.
  • Expertise in AWS and Azure, with deep experience in provisioning, monitoring, and managing cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, and Azure DevOps.
  • Hands-on experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Java, R, and YAML.
  • Proven experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
  • Knowledge of networking technologies, including routing, security groups, firewalls, and subnets, as well as IPv2 CIDR concepts.
  • Familiarity with source configuration management tools such as GitHub and work management platforms like Atlassian Jira.
  • Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements in regulated environments such as healthcare.

Preferred Skills:

  • Previous experience in healthcare technology or working with fraud, waste, and abuse detection in claims and billing systems.
  • Experience with AI-driven applications and predictive modeling in cloud environments.
  • Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to present technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Company DescriptionAlivia Analytics is helping customers Achieve Healthcare Payment Integrity, Finally. By turning mountains of data into actionable answers, Alivia Analytics does the heavy lifting – delivering the accuracy, confidence and speed our customers need to solve their healthcare payment integrity challenges. Through the Alivia Analytics Healthcare Payment Integrity Suite TM we help private and public healthcare payers achieve payment integrity globally. In the US alone, up to 10% of every dollar spent is attributed to Fraud, Waste or Abuse that amounts to up to 370 Billion dollars lost annually. If your ambition is to grow your responsibilities and career while building world class analytic SaaS systems and fixing a huge problem for social good, please come and join us.Company DescriptionAlivia Analytics is helping customers Achieve Healthcare Payment Integrity, Finally. By turning mountains of data into actionable answers, Alivia Analytics does the heavy lifting – delivering the accuracy, confidence and speed our customers need to solve their healthcare payment integrity challenges. Through the Alivia Analytics Healthcare Payment Integrity Suite TM we help private and public healthcare payers achieve payment integrity globally. In the US alone, up to 10% of every dollar spent is attributed to Fraud, Waste or Abuse that amounts to up to 370 Billion dollars lost annually. If your ambition is to grow your responsibilities and career while building world class analytic SaaS systems and fixing a huge problem for social good, please come and join us.