Platform Operations Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Platform Operations Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes): Building the Platform Engineering function from the ground up to support healthcare price transparency infrastructure with an accent on observability, reliability, and GitOps workflows. Focus on automating deployment pipelines, scaling EKS environments, and designing self-service infrastructure tooling.

Location: Must be based in the United States

Salary: $153,000 – $170,000

Company

A Series C price transparency platform for finance leaders across healthcare, backed by top-tier VC firms like a16z.

What you will do

• Manage and scale container environments on Amazon EKS and implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions to ensure fast, consistent, and automated deployments.
• Define SLIs and SLOs, lead incident response, and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Design and maintain the monitoring and logging stack using Datadog, Sentry, and CloudWatch.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions and build internal self-service tooling for the engineering team.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency with core AWS services (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS) and cloud networking.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Crossplane.
• Experience running production Kubernetes clusters and managing deployments via Helm and GitOps.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and system integration.
• Must be based in the US and available to operate on US business hours.

Nice to have

• Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay with equity options and 401(k) with 4% matching.
• Comprehensive health care plan (Medical, Dental, Vision) with FSA, DCFSA, and HSA options.
• Unlimited PTO and generous paid family leave.
• Fully remote work with a $750 home setup budget.
• Paid biannual in-person company summits and quarterly co-hanging stipends.
• Annual $1,200 learning and development stipend.