Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Service Operations, Site Reliability Engineering team within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering division. This team is newly formed and is responsible for managing the fleet of systems owned by its sister teams in the Service Operations zone. We’re looking for Site Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering experts to help us build out the tools and processes necessary for success. Come help us create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all!
The Team:
The Service Operations Site Reliability Engineering team is a newly formed branch of the Network Operations Center. The team sits within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) division which is responsible for delivering high quality and highly available SaaS infrastructure and internal tools. You will be working closely with our internal stakeholders from the R&D and Cloud Infrastructure organizations using modern toolsets to deliver resilient & scalable business solutions. Consistent with SRE practices, a key goal for this team is to measure & reduce toil, not only for ourselves but for the broader NOC & Service Operations organizations.
Job Responsibilities
· Provisioning and ongoing management of physical & virtual Linux machines using tools like Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform, to name a few
· Engage closely with sister teams to assume ownership of various system lifecycle tasks
· Automate away toil and/or create empowerment processes for transitioning high urgency work to the NOC’s rapid response team
· Build automated monitoring & observability using tools such as Prometheus/AlertManager, iCinga, Grafana, etc.
· Participate in all Agile/scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, etc.
· Participate in the team’s on-call rotation (expected to begin late 2024, early 2025)
· Work closely with internal teams to integrate new monitoring & alerts into the NOC using Perl scripting to author custom parsing & mapping rules
· Develop metrics and observability dashboards which can be used to measure and track various success measures for the team & the business
Typical Qualifications
· 5+ years of professional experience delivering SaaS solutions, preferably in a hybrid cloud environment
· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Computer Science / Engineering program
· Proven experience using query languages to deliver observability solutions
· Proficiency working with one or more configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
· Admin-level expertise with a Unix-based operating system
· Proven ops background using cloud-native best practices
· Proven proficiency with one or more scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, etc.)
· Proficiency working with Git & Atlassian suite or similar
· Proficiency working with containerized environments is a plus
· Experience creating technical documentation & standard operating procedures (SOPs)
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
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What We Do
At athenahealth, it’s our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. With a thoughtful balance of humanity and technology, we’re able to uncover meaningful healthcare insights that can help create healthier futures for our families, our communities, and ourselves.
athenahealth partners with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services. We combine insights from our network of more than 160,000 providers and approximately 117 million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform administrative work at scale.
Our cloud-based and on-premises solutions deliver measurable financial and clinical results for healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes. That’s why our top-performing clients are beating industry benchmarks across the board.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
Our vibrant and talented employees spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goals. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where we each feel comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
