Lead DevOps Engineer

Cohere Health is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the team responsible for building, scaling, and securing the infrastructure that powers its platform. The role sets technical direction, contributes hands-on, and partners with engineering, security, and data teams to ensure reliable, secure, scalable infrastructure in a regulated healthcare environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers — setting technical direction, running sprint planning, and driving delivery against quarterly goals
• Design, deploy, and maintain highly scalable, secure production infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines — establishing consistent deployment standards and security gates across engineering teams
• Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern, managed platforms and decommission outdated systems
• Drive our observability strategy — building out monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call routing across all services
• Own networking and access management — ensuring secure, well-documented, least-privilege access across all environments
• Embed security into the DevOps lifecycle — vulnerability scanning, code and infrastructure analysis, and remediation workflows with clear SLAs
• Establish a FinOps practice — driving cloud cost optimization, right-sizing workloads, and reporting spend to leadership
• Serve as the primary escalation point for infrastructure incidents and lead postmortems with preventive follow-through
• Ensure infrastructure meets healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements

Requirements:

• 8+ years working in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with experience mentoring or leading other engineers
• Deep hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure at scale — compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management
• Track record of building and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with security practices and compliance frameworks, including vulnerability scanning, cloud security posture management, and audit logging
• Experience standing up and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain production reliability
• Comfortable writing code in at least one scripting or systems language, and managing infrastructure through code
• Strong communicator who can shift between deep technical work, team leadership, and translating infrastructure decisions for non-technical partners
• experience in a regulated industry (especially healthcare), container orchestration, AI-driven automation for infrastructure, or cloud platform certifications