Sr. DevOps Engineer

Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care that combines clinical services with an AI-powered technology platform. The Sr. DevOps Engineer will design, modernize, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS and managed datastores, while supporting software delivery pipelines. The role will also build developer self-service tooling, automate operations, and strengthen cloud security, reliability, and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement infrastructure using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Python, and Kubernetes onto our AWS cloud platform
• Collaborate closely with the engineering, data science and machine learning teams to continually implement, maintain, and improve our cloud infrastructure and developer experience
• Platform & Tooling Focus: Apply a software product mindset to build, maintain, and abstract internal platform tools, developer templates, and self-service CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure and operations tasks using scripting languages
• Security & Governance: Operationalize cloud security by enforcing continuous vulnerability remediation, strict IAM policies, and compliance guardrails directly within platform pipelines
• Monitor and analyze systems and network performance, and implement proactive measures to ensure the availability and reliability of our infrastructure
• Enforcing IAM processes and tools that ensure compliance with data privacy and protection regulations
• Working alongside engineers to ensure that security vulnerabilities are remediated

Requirements:

• • 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure role heavily focused on public cloud environments (AWS required)
• • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) a must, especially many of the following:
• • EKS, SageMaker, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, ELB/ALB, MWAA, Identity Center
• • Strong IaC Practices: Demonstrated experience building modular, reusable Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure
• • Experience building and maintaining templates and packages with Helm
• • Experience developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD
• • Deep EKS & Container Expertise: Hands-on experience administering, scaling, and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes (EKS) environments in production
• • Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to write automation scripts, tools, and integrations for internal development teams
• • Effective communication and collaboration skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• This is a remote role however candidates must reside within the United States
• • Experience with modern cluster autoscaling strategies (e.g., Karpenter) and cloud cost optimization techniques
• • Familiarity with developer self-service tooling or internal developer portals
• • Proficiency with logging analysis, performance monitoring, and performance tuning
• • Background supporting ML/Data Science workloads in cloud environments (e.g., SageMaker integrations, feature stores)