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Senior DevOps Engineer

PayZen - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-16

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PayZen is a venture-backed healthtech company on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. The company's products improve access and affordability for patients while reducing cash flow and administrative complexity for medical providers. PayZen is trusted by a growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and is backed by leading VCs including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the infrastructure strategy, focusing on automation, stability, and performance across cloud environments. You will drive best practices in CI/CD, configuration management, and monitoring. You will report to the Director of DevOps and collaborate closely with the Engineering team. Key responsibilities include: - Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker across AWS and GCP - Develop and maintain robust Configuration Management solutions using Terraform for consistent environment provisioning - Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid, reliable, and automated software releases - Administer and troubleshoot Linux operating systems - Implement and optimize observability practices using monitoring tools like Prometheus for logging, tracing, and alerting - Automate repetitive tasks and system operations using Bash and Python - Collaborate with development, data, and security teams to ensure infrastructure supports product requirements and compliance standards - Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure service reliability and incident response This role is based in San Francisco headquarters with in-office days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role - Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration, specifically Kubernetes (design, deployment, and troubleshooting) and Docker - Strong proficiency in managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) - Extensive experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic) - 2-3 years of experience with cloud platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure - Solid understanding of Web Servers, Networking, Load Balancers, Nginx - Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or equivalent

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