Senior DevOps Engineer, SmithRx
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Next-generation pharmacy benefits
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Next-generation pharmacy benefits
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reduce the complexity and costs of pharmacy benefits with a cleaner business approach and the industry’s most advanced and flexible technology platform.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps
- BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field
- Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS
- Worked as an active team member for both product development and the operations teams to provide the best DevOps practices and supported their applications with feasible approaches
- Security first mindset, including demonstrated experience building secure development and test environments integrated to CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles
- Experience building and maintaining a container based infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform experience a plus) and infrastructure testing strategies
- Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging
- Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines with associated tools such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions
- Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred
- Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like Redis, Redshift, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Snowflake
- Strong scripting skills, including shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Sr. DevOps Engineer who has hands-on experience building and managing a cloud-based infrastructure
- Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for development cycles in integration/continuous deployment mode, process monitoring, and more broadly, constructing a “safety culture” within the SmithRx’s DevOps practice
- Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure
- Help build and maintain a container based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable and compliant, and support the rest of the team doing the same
- Be part of SmithRx Agile development team to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment
- Gain a deep understanding of the challenges that SmithRx faces, technical and otherwise; collaborate with other teams to identify and carry out effective solutions
- Work closely with our development team to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner
- Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and perform root cause analysis when necessary
- Collaborate with developers to ensure that applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind
- Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively
- Be a pillar of a collaborative learning culture through exploration of new technologies, application of best practices, and any other innovations you would like to experiment with
- Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
- Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
- Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers
- Be effective in maintaining SmithRX security program controls and best practices
- Understand the health regulatory space and maintain HIPAA compliant systems
- Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization
- Be a part of on-call PagerDuty rotations
Our take
PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers) save payers and patients 40% to 50% on prescription drug and related medical costs in the US, compared to what they would spend without them. It’s generally accepted, though, that PBMs are working for profit and not solely on the customers benefit.
SmithRx is a company looking to reduce complications in the current system with its innovative PBM structure. It uses its cloud-based technology to present the most cost effective options transparently to self-insured businesses, supporting them in getting the lowest cost drugs they can, as well as making the transition to these alternatives seamless.
It does this by partnering with innovative drug companies, as well as applying coupons and making use of available savings and assistance programs. As the company does not take economics from the supply chain, it is able to work for its customers with no hidden agendas. Having recently secured funding, the company is looking towards continued growth as well as pursuing leadership in the sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $97.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental and Vision. We pay up to 90% for you and your family
- Fully paid life insurance and disability benefits
- Paid Parental Leave benefits
- Professional development, training and career growth opportunities
- Generous paid time off
Company values
- Operate With Integrity: Always operate with honesty and transparency so we earn the trust of our clients
- Courage To Transform: Demonstrate the courage needed to take on a broken industry and continuously improve what we offer to optimise health outcomes
- Together We Succeed: Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment that values teamwork, respect, and open communication, and encourages creativity and diversity of thought
Company HQ
South Park, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jake Frenz
(CEO)Previously worked as Director of Plan Operations at CollectiveHealth and Project Director at Anthem Inc.
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