[Remote] Lead DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is a leader in clinical decision support solutions aimed at improving patient care. The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for driving DevOps execution, managing CI/CD processes, and mentoring engineers while ensuring operational excellence and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and architectural direction across all DevOps initiatives
• Establishing engineering standards for CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, observability, and DevSecOps practices
• Allocating DevOps resources across concurrent product initiatives based on priorities set by the Director of Product Development
• Conducting performance evaluations, career development planning, and technical mentorship
• Ensuring consistent operational excellence, reliability, security compliance, and automation maturity across environments
• Building scalable DevOps processes that enable autonomy within full-stack teams while maintaining governance and architectural alignment

Skills

• Typically 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering roles
• 2--4 years of experience serving in a senior or lead-level DevOps capacity
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring DevOps or infrastructure engineers
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
• Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD and/or Tekton pipeline implementation
• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code principles and automation scripting
• Strong hands-on experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including Java/Groovy Spring Boot microservices
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including React and/or Svelte frontends
• Experience supporting modern application stacks including MarkLogic, SQL, and Redis data platforms
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline integration
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including identity and access standards (OAuth2/OIDC, Keycloak, JWT)
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure
• Ability to lead CI/CD architecture and automation initiatives
• Advanced troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, application, and data layers
• Experience implementing high-availability and disaster recovery practices
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers through technical mentorship and example
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across development, QA, security, and architecture
• Ability to balance shared-service DevOps responsibilities across multiple teams
• Capable of identifying platform bottlenecks and driving improvement initiatives
• Able to support modernization efforts while ensuring delivery continuity
• Strong systems-thinking and risk identification skills
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
• Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated environments strongly preferred
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Cline, Claude Code) in automation, infrastructure scripting, or troubleshooting workflows preferred

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance, and matching 401k
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending savings account
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• Other company benefits

Company Overview

Zynx Health, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, is the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support. It is a sub-organization of Hearst Communications. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.zynxhealth.com.