DevOps Manager

About DrFirst

DrFirst is an innovative Health IT company with a mission to create user-friendly solutions so that doctors can treat their patients quickly, efficiently, and safely.

Over 300,000 healthcare professionals, 120,000 prescribers, 67,000 pharmacies, and 260 of the healthcare IT vendors in the market depend on us every day to manage medication safety and efficiency, streamline care team communication and collaboration, reduce medical errors, and improve patient outcomes.

You will be part of a team-building and operating highly scalable software using cutting edge technologies for a variety of devices. You will get to solve the most complex problems that arise in the areas of distributed computing and high-volume transaction processing. Your code will reach thousands of doctors and touch the lives of millions of patients across the country.

Our culture is entrepreneurial, team-oriented, collaborative, and fast-paced. We look for talented people who are passionate about developing world-class software. If you want to build applications that save patients’ lives, we want to talk to you!

Position Overview

In this role, you will lead the in-house experts to build reliable and maintainable DevOps systems to scale. You and your team will work closely with the product and analytics teams to define and implement the necessary infrastructure, services, and procedures to maintain an efficiently working set of reliable high availability systems.  You will work directly with product development teams to build developer tools to deliver software efficiently and with the highest level of quality.

If you are passionate about leading and building great teams, about automation and researching innovative solutions to build operations as efficient as possible with optimal costs, we want to speak with you!

Who will love this job

• An Innovator: who thinks outside the box to introduce new methods, ideas, and products
• A Problem solver: passionate about using technology to solve complicated problems, and harnessing the power of data to adopt new tactics to enhance efficiency and scalability
• A Team Builder:  who enjoys recruiting and developing teams, attracting A-players from various disciplines
• A Trusted Advisor: with strong leadership acumen who always strives to do better tomorrow than today, and continuously improve his/her team’s knowledge and skills
• A Driver:  who works with purpose and passion; someone who will elevate our engineering team through new perspectives, ideas, and solutions
• A Collaborator: who can navigate internal departments and teams, brings people together to deliver world-class products that accelerate DrFirst’s market share and profitability

What you will work on

Key aspects of this role include automation, configuration management, and tools development while collaborating with the development team on projects/products as experts on reliability, performance, and efficiency.

• Building: You will be at the helm of building both the team and software, with a focus always on quality and customer. We are looking for you to bring innovation, best practices, and automation to deliver better and faster.
• Learning: Our engineering team is full of life-long learners. We are looking for people who have a growth mindset, stay up on their craft, and always keep an eye out for what’s next. Open Source contributions and cross-training opportunities are a way of life here.
• Problem-solving: The problems we are solving are unique and complex. This takes critical thinking, root cause analysis, and issue dissection with the team to come up with the best solution.
• Mentoring: Teaching and coaching is an integral part of this role. We want people who want to share their experiences, best practices, and knowledge to elevate the team as a whole.
• Delivering. We are committed to producing world-class products. Being skilled at managing competing priorities, pivoting and adjusting quickly, and thinking about the big picture are keys to success

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Eight plus years' experience as a software engineer or DevOps engineer designing, maintaining, and developing complex software, systems, and tools
• Three plus years' experience leading software development teams
• Proven experience delivering and deploying commercial software solutions in both on-prem and cloud environments
• Strong capability to coordinate teams and projects, and bring things together
• Expert knowledge in OS systems and scripting
• Experience with containerization and virtualization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• System upgrading/patching experience and tools (Ansible, and so on)
• Experience with CI/CD and related tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab
• Security experience/understanding in the cloud (a big plus)
• Self-motivated, persuasive, collaborative, and technically curious

Physical Requirements

• 70% Desk/phone work
• 30% Standing/moving throughout the office

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits to keep you healthy as you grow in your life and career. Your merit-based compensation will reflect the impact your work has on the company and our customers.  

Learn more about our benefits and professional development opportunities here.