Junior Developer Operations Engineer Jobs in Middlesex, NJ

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team at K Health. You will own and evolve the infrastructure underpinning a healthcare AI platform serving patients and enterprise health system partners. This is a high-ownership role: you will architect and operate cloud environments across K Health and its enterprise partners, lead complex infrastructure migrations, drive disaster recovery programs, and help build the next generation of AI-powered operations tooling. You will also mentor junior engineers and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the company. This is a hybrid role based in New York City (4 days/week in office) and includes participation in a daytime on-call rotation.

This role requires onsite presence in our New York City office 4 days a week and does not provide immigration support. 

• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of our GKE-based Kubernetes infrastructure across K Health and enterprise partner environments.
• Build and maintain our Terraform modular infrastructure library, including reusable modules with automated testing, across GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS.
• Architect, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD shared pipeline templates used by all engineering teams (build, test, security scanning, deployment).
• Own and maintain self-hosted infrastructure software running in-cluster, including GitLab, ArgoCD, Langfuse, DependencyTrack, NGINX Ingress, and others.
• Implement and support security and compliance controls across infrastructure and the software supply chain - secrets management, pipeline secret detection, container scanning, SOC2 and HIPAA.
• Drive disaster recovery readiness: design failover scenarios, author runbooks, and lead periodic DR tests.
• Lead development of AI-powered operations tooling and agentic infrastructure.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production system reliability; respond to incidents during on-call shifts.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and establish team-wide engineering standards.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem - Helm, Helmfile, ArgoCD, Kyverno, cert-manager, and NGINX Ingress.
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform - GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, IAM, and Workload Identity.
• Strong Terraform expertise: modular architecture, multi-environment provisioning, and automated testing.
• Advanced knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Plus: 

• Advanced Bash scripting skills.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as Akeyless or HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience with database administration across PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB  -  including DR configuration and operational runbooks.
• Experience with Datadog or equivalent observability platform (APM, infrastructure, log management).
• Experience with Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and security rules management.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing disaster recovery programs, including failover testing and runbook authorship.

• Experience in highly regulated environments - SOC2 and HIPAA.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience with HPC or GPU cluster infrastructure, including Slurm..
• Experience building or operating AI agents or agentic infrastructure.
• Experience with microservices architecture and API gateway / reverse proxy patterns.
• Experience with AWS.

Benefits & Perks:  #LI-Hybrid

• Hybrid work schedule with weekly lunches and stocked fridges 
• Monthly social committees for company events
• 18 vacation days, 9 company holidays, 5 sick days, and 2 personal days 
• Stock options for every full-time employee 
• Paid parental leave
• 401k benefit
• Commuter Benefits 
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance options