Senior Site Reliability Engineer 1 - Hybrid

About the position

ModMed is hiring a driven Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our positive, passionate, and high-performing team focused on keeping our cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient. This role focuses on automation, performance, and reliability, helping us streamline operations and build smarter cloud-native solutions that enable developer self-service within a fast-paced Healthcare IT company that is truly Modernizing Medicine!

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS infrastructure to ensure security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Improve monitoring & observability using DataDog for proactive issue detection.
• Empower developers by standardizing and commoditizing infrastructure, making it available via self-service methods like GitOps, APIs, UIs, etc.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Github and AWS services for smooth deployments.
• Lead containerization efforts with Kubernetes to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Optimize cloud performance by tuning resources for better speed and cost savings.
• Troubleshoot complex issues quickly across AWS environments.
• Implement security best practices to meet compliance and data protection standards.
• Stay up-to-date on cloud technologies and recommend improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Work cross-functionally to build AWS-based solutions that meet business needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud/Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong AWS expertise, including security, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Hands-on experience with DataDog, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
• Proficiency in automation & scripting (Python, Bash).
• Solid grasp of networking, cloud security, and CI/CD best practices.
• Proven leadership & mentoring skills to guide teams through complex challenges.
• Excellent communication skills-able to explain technical concepts clearly.