Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description

## **About PayZen** PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow & administrative complexity for medical providers. We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors, including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures. ## **About the Role** As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor to our infrastructure strategy, focusing on AI-driven: automation, stability, and performance across cloud environments. You will drive best practices in CI/CD, configuration management, and monitoring. In this role, you will report to the Director of DevOps,collaborating closely with **Engineering teams.** This position is based in our San Francisco headquarters with in-office days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization poised for significant growth. ## **Responsibilities** - Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker across public cloud (AWS, GCP) - Develop and maintain robust Configuration Management solutions (Terraform) for consistent environment provisioning and management. - Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid, reliable, and automated software releases. - Administer and troubleshoot operating systems, encompassing Linux - Implement and optimize observability practices using monitoring tools like Prometheus for logging, tracing, and alerting. - Automate repetitive tasks and system operations using scripting languages, primarily Bash and Python. - Collaborate closely with development, data, and security teams to ensure infrastructure supports product requirements and compliance standards. - Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure service reliability and responsiveness to incidents. ## **Requirements** - 5+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role. - Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration, specifically Kubernetes (design, deployment, and troubleshooting) and Docker. - Strong proficiency in managing Cloud infrastructure Cloud (AWS, GCP) - Comfortable building with LLMs as infrastructure tools (Bedrock/Claude agents, MCP) - Extensive experience with monitoring and observability platforms (tools like Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic) - 2-3 years of experience in with cloud platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure - Solid understanding of Web Servers, Networking, Load Balancers, Nginx, etc. - Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python or equivalent. ## **Why PayZen?** - An opportunity to positively affect the lives of thousands of patients - A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage - Contribute to the development of a product that revolutionizes medical payments in ways never seen before - Become a key member of a collaborative, high performing team, shaping its growth and success - Competitive pay, benefits and stock options