Lead DevOps Engineer
Cohere Health · United States
About this role
## Lead DevOps Engineer ### Opportunity Overview We’re looking for an experienced **DevOps Team Lead** to lead our DevOps engineering team in building, scaling, and securing the infrastructure that powers **Cohere Health’s** platform. You’ll drive technical direction, mentor engineers, own cross-functional delivery, and partner closely with engineering, security, and data teams to ensure our infrastructure is reliable, secure, and scalable in a **regulated healthcare** environment. This is a technical leadership role—comfortable reviewing Terraform, running sprint planning, and presenting infrastructure strategy to engineering leadership. You’ll lead from the front and contribute directly alongside your team. **Location:** Remote-first (may require travel to **Boston, MA** for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person meetings/events). --- ### What you’ll do - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers—set technical direction, run sprint planning, and drive delivery against quarterly goals - Design, deploy, and maintain highly scalable, secure production infrastructure on **AWS** using infrastructure-as-code - Own and evolve **CI/CD pipelines**, establishing consistent deployment standards and security gates across engineering teams - Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern, managed platforms and decommission outdated systems - Drive our **observability strategy** (monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call routing across services) - Own **networking and access management** to ensure secure, well-documented, least-privilege access across environments - Embed security into the DevOps lifecycle (vulnerability scanning, code/infrastructure analysis, remediation workflows with clear SLAs) - Establish a **FinOps** practice (cloud cost optimization, right-sizing workloads, reporting spend to leadership) - Serve as the primary escalation point for infrastructure incidents and lead postmortems with preventive follow-through - Ensure infrastructure meets healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements --- ### What you’ll need - **8+ years** in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with experience mentoring or leading engineers - Deep hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure at scale (compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management) - Track record of building and maintaining automated build/test/deployment pipelines - Familiarity with security practices and compliance frameworks (vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, audit logging) - Experience standing up and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting for production reliability - Comfort writing code in at least one scripting or systems language; manage infrastructure through code - Strong communicator who can shift between deep technical work, team leadership, and translating decisions for non-technical partners - **Bonus:** regulated industry experience (especially healthcare), container orchestration, AI-driven infrastructure automation, or cloud platform certifications --- ### Pay & Perks - **Fully remote** with ~**5% travel** - Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program - 401(k) retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account - Flex Time Off + company holidays - Up to **14 weeks** of paid parental leave - Pet insurance - **Salary range:** **$150,000–$185,000 annually** (plus benefits including health insurance, 401k, and
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