Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

At Zelis we Get Stuff Done. So lets get to it!

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers providers and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers including the top five national health plans regional health plans TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify optimize and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts driving real measurable results for clients.

At Zelis AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo accelerate innovation and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility embrace change and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions exceptional experiences and the future of our industry for our clients customers and our culture.

A Little About You

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences community involvement and the valuable lessons youve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements the knowledge youve gained and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

What Youll Own

• Architecture and operation of large-scale highly available AWS environments

• Reliability and performance of distributed systems supporting production workloads

• Design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform automation

• Evolution of container platforms (ECS EKS)

• Organization-wide DevOps and SRE best practices including SLO-driven engineering

• Cloud cost optimization and governance across multi-account environments

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable fault-tolerant AWS architectures

• Lead implementation of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation

• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid reliable software delivery

• Own Kubernetes (EKS) platform architecture scalability and operational excellence

• Establish and drive observability strategy (metrics logging tracing) using tools like Datadog

• Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reliability standards

• Lead incident response root cause analysis and postmortems

• Optimize infrastructure for cost performance and security compliance

• Mentor engineers and influence platform and architectural decisions across teams

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in DevOps SRE or platform engineering roles

• Deep expertise in AWS architecture and services (EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS EKS/ECS Fargate Lambda CloudFront)

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) ECS and container orchestration

• Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI or similar)

• Strong background in Linux systems networking and distributed systems

• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python Bash or similar)

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog preferred)

• Track record of improving system reliability scalability and performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments

• Background in high-scale systems (large datasets high-throughput applications)

• Database performance tuning experience (PostgreSQL and MSSqlServer preferred)

• Experience in regulated environments (security audit compliance)

What Success Looks Like

• Measurable improvements in system uptime latency and reliability

• Faster safer deployments with reduced failure rates

• Reduced cloud spend through architectural and operational optimizations

• Strong DevOps culture adoption across engineering teams

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

We have offices in Atlanta GA Boston MA Morristown NJ Plano TX St. Louis MO St. Petersburg FL and Hyderabad India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture and all our employees work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership -office work and activities if applicable vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process please email .

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities duties and skills from time to time.