Junior DevOps Engineer
About SimpliFed:
SimpliFed is a Maternal Care at Home model powered by our Maternal Health Operating System, centered on exceptional patient experience while driving strong clinical outcomes and reducing cost. We specialize in lactation and baby feeding support as well as high risk condition monitoring for hypertension, maternal mental health, social drivers, and gestational diabetes. Our providers engage with patients early and our care navigators guide patients through the entire maternal episode of care, offering 24x7 support via our secure virtual platform.
Position Overview:A Junior DevOps Engineer at our healthcare startup supports the reliability, security, and scalability of the cloud infrastructure that runs production healthcare applications. This role is hands-on and ideal for an engineer with foundational experience in cloud and infrastructure-as-code who wants to grow in a regulated, high-impact environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Support and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS
- Use Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure as code
- Assist with CI/CD pipelines for application deployments
- Monitor system performance, availability, alerts, logs, and events
- Help implement security best practices (IAM, least privilege, logging)
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues
- Work closely with engineering and IT teams to support production systems
- Document security controls, infrastructure, runbooks, and operational procedures
What We’re Looking For:
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Systems Engineering
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC)
- Working knowledge of Terraform
- Familiarity with Linux and basic networking concepts
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and Git-based workflows
- Strong desire to learn and take ownership
- Exposure to containerization (Docker, ECS, or EKS)
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus)
- Familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, or regulated environments
- Scripting experience (Bash, Python)
- Exposure to security tooling (AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF)
- Experience with CI/CD security or infrastructure scanning
About you:
- Aligned with SimpliFed’s mission.
- Hankering to put the relationships back in medicine
- A posture towards execution - a true operator willing to both develop the strategy and execute it.
- Ability to work remotely and communicate asynchronously via slack and email, along with thriving in virtual meetings.
- Does not suffer in silence: willingness to give it a shot but then reach out for help as needed and not waiting too long.
- Leans into items they are uncomfortable with, not avoid it.
- Defers to safe and secure security protocols always to protect SimpliFed’s patients and providers.
- High personal integrity to always do the right thing for the families that we are honored to serve.
- Respect and high tolerance for bureaucracy, along with an optimistic perspective on how to operate within the bureaucratic “rules” and the healthcare regulatory environment.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, team environment.
- Have a valid Drivers License and REAL ID
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
Base Salary: $125,000