DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

At Wider Circle, we connect neighbors for better health. Wider Circle's groundbreaking Connect for Life® program brings neighbors together in-person and online for health, wellness, and social activities that improve mental and physical health. We create webs of community circles by employing local and culturally competent engagement specialists, whose hand-on-hand approach to forming trusted circles is informed by a sophisticated analytics platform. We are on a mission to make the world a better place for older adults and disadvantaged communities.

Our product and engineering teams develop apps used by our members, tools used by our field teams that are powered by a sophisticated analytics platform, and infrastructure that services our operations and health plans customers. We are now seeking a DevOps Engineer with start-up experience to support our development, QA, and analytics teams, and to constantly improve our systems.

Top Skills

Connects with the Mission

Wider Circle’s mission should be a significant factor in this person’s desire to consider the position. The right candidate will be a values-driven individual who immediately aligns with Wider Circle’s values, connects and compliments teammates, and demonstrates the appropriate passion within their own personal life.

Flexibility

Wider Circle is known for its consistency, passion, and flexibility to respond to member and customer needs. Candidates should prefer the types of processes, team dynamics, and velocity to thrive in this type of dynamic environment to address these evolving needs.

High Clock Speed

We define clock speed as the pace at which a person goes about their work. The pace at Wider Circle tends to be fast, and candidates should have a knack for delivering solutions quickly and constantly iterating to improve them.

Seasoned DevOps Engineer

The candidate should have 2+ years of prior DevOps experience, and experience working in a startup environment of a similar size. They should be familiar with Amazon AWS, Atlassian products, and CI/CD. They should be comfortable supporting multiple teams, including development, QA, and analytics. They’ll be expected to support daily operations, as well as constantly improve the overall system to reduce the number of incoming tickets.

Responsibilities

• Working alongside our other DevOps resources, and reporting to the Head of Engineering
• Working closely with the Analytics and Data Science team to manage their AWS infrastructure
• Managing our VPN
• Managing our Atlassian products
• Managing our CI/CD infrastructure
• Managing our test automation framework running inside of CI/CD
• First line of defense on account lockouts, password resets, deployments, and test runs in those environments

Requirements

• 2+ years of DevOps experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Demonstrated ability to complete tasks on time and to the satisfaction of stakeholders
• Experience working with Development, QA, Analytics, and Product Management teams
• Amazon AWS certifications a plus
• Salesforce experience and certifications a plus
• Strong technical skills in the following technologies:
  • Various AWS services including EC2, Directory Service, Cloudwatch, KMS, IAM, VPC, AWS Workspaces, S3, RedShift, Lambdas, etc.
  • OpenVPN running inside of AWS
  • Various Atlassian products, including JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, and Service Management
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms, including BitBucket Pipelines and/or Jenkins
  • Experience with Selenium Test Automation, running inside of CI/CD
  • Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
  • Strong SQL database skills
  • Strong skills in scripting languages (i.e. BASH, Python, NodeJS)
• Experience with HIPAA compliance, HITRUST and healthcare security a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization

Benefits

As a venture-backed company, Wider Circle offers competitive compensation, including:

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Care FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Disability Benefits
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Training and Development
• Salary: $90,000 - $110,000

And most importantly, an opportunity to make the world a better place!

Wider Circle is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment, of any kind. Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion supports our ability to build diverse teams and develop inclusive work environments. We believe in empowering people and valuing their differences. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without consideration of race, color, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law.