GCP DevOps Engineer

The healthcare industry is the next great frontier of opportunity for software development, and
Health Catalyst
is one of the most dynamic and influential companies in this space. We are working on solving national-level healthcare problems, and this is your chance to improve the lives of millions of people, including your family and friends. Health Catalyst is a fast-growing company that values smart, hardworking, and humble individuals. Each product team is a small, mission-critical team focused on developing innovative tools to support Catalyst's mission to improve healthcare performance, cost, and quality.

Health Catalyst is expanding and maintains a large suite of Improvement Apps that contribute to healthcare analytics and process improvement solutions. This includes products that manage the care of health system populations, better serve patients at the point of care, reduce health system costs, and reduce clinician workload.

Job Summary:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working with diverse Improvement Apps, software engineering team designing, developing, and maintaining various platforms that serve internal HCAT team members, clinicians, and patients. You will rely on Test-Driven Development to safely enhance and refactor our system, shipping production code multiple times per week. And you will go to bed each night with the comfort that your code is improving outcomes for patients.

If you love…

Help drive clarity and prototype individual features or problems

Knowledge of architecture patterns and the ability to design and complete features / tasks that are 50-60% well defined.

Can discern where gaps can be filled in without consulting a Product Manager or another programmer and can judge when a consultation is needed.

Work is reviewed with the occasional need for material direction or implementation changes

Seeks and provides guidance via PR reviews, pair-programming and other interactions with Engineers and Product Managers

It is second nature to develop high code quality standards balanced with the needs of real-world customer timelines.

Possesses a passion and drive to deliver exceptional products and follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease.

Takes ownership of learning and growth

Capitalizes on internal and external opportunities for learning.

Identifies gaps in knowledge/skills and seeks ways to close those gaps (self-guided learning, pairing, seeking guidance for yourself and developing guidance for less experienced members of the team)

Periodic On Call Rotation

Ability to communicate with Customer Success about customer issues that are escalated to Engineering and help quantify customer impact.

Can Respond quickly to operational emergencies, find short term resolutions and plan long term fixes to avoid similar issues in the future.

What you own in the role:

• Design, implement, and manage scalable and secure infrastructure on
  Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  .
• Build and maintain
  Kubernetes clusters
  for microservices and containerized applications.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using
  Terraform
  and
  Helm
  to ensure consistent, automated deployments.
• Set up and optimize CI/CD pipelines using
  Jenkins
  and
  Maven
  to support efficient build and release cycles.
• Collaborate with development teams to streamline application deployments and operational workflows.
• Manage and optimize
  SQL Server
  and
  PostgreSQL
  database environments, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot
  IIS web servers
  for legacy and hybrid workloads.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure high system availability and performance.
• Drive best practices in DevOps, cloud security, and cost optimization.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps strategy and process improvements.

What you bring to this role:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience with
  Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  services (Compute, Networking, IAM, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD using Jenkins and Maven
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy, in a timely manner
• Adept at constructing efficient queries, writing reports and presenting findings
• Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• 5 to 6 years work experience as GCP devops professional
• BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a similar field
• An understanding of healthcare data is a plus, but not a requirement

You may also bring:

Software development experience within healthcare IT and understands key data models (clinical, claims, financial, etc.) and interoperability standards such as HL7v2, CDA, EMR, and FHIR

Knowledge of healthcare compliance and how it applies to Application Security

Agile/Scrum software development practices

Business Intelligence or Data warehousing experience

Preferred Experience and Education:

BS/BA or MS in Computer science, information systems, or other technology/science degree.

A minimum of 5 years of experience in building commercial software, SaaS, or digital platforms.

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Health Catalyst, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualification without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship status, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.. Health Catalyst is committed to a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.