DevOps Engineer, Sr. - 100% Remote

About the Company

Lyra Health is a provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally through employer partnerships and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered over 15 million mental health care sessions and published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies focused on clinical outcomes, accessibility, and cost efficiency.

Lyra Health is transforming access to mental health care through Lyra Empower, an AI-powered platform that integrates care and technology solutions. Its care model is supported by research showing improvements in recovery outcomes and reductions in overall healthcare claims costs.

About the Role

Lyra Health is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure while supporting software delivery pipelines. This role focuses on modernizing platform tooling, expanding and improving production Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments, and optimizing managed cloud data services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, and ElastiCache.

The successful candidate will help create a reliable, secure, and efficient infrastructure environment while improving developer experience through automation, reusable platform tools, and self-service delivery capabilities. This is a remote position, and candidates must reside within the United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS using tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu, Python, and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and machine learning teams to maintain and improve cloud infrastructure and developer experience.
• Build, maintain, and abstract internal platform tools, developer templates, and self-service CI/CD pipelines using a software product mindset.
• Automate infrastructure management and operational tasks through scripting.
• Implement cloud security controls, continuous vulnerability remediation, strict IAM policies, and compliance guardrails within platform pipelines.
• Monitor and analyze system and network performance, implementing proactive measures to maintain infrastructure availability and reliability.
• Enforce IAM processes and tools that support compliance with data privacy and protection regulations.
• Work with engineering teams to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Support the modernization and optimization of production EKS environments and managed cloud databases.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure roles, with a strong focus on public cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS is required.
• Experience with several AWS services, including EKS, SageMaker, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, ELB/ALB, MWAA, and Identity Center.
• Demonstrated experience building modular, reusable infrastructure using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience building and maintaining templates and packages with Helm.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Practical experience administering, scaling, and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes (EKS) environments in production.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash for developing automation scripts, tools, and integrations.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern Kubernetes cluster autoscaling strategies, such as Karpenter, and cloud cost optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with developer self-service tools or internal developer portals.
• Experience with logging analysis, performance monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Experience supporting machine learning and data science workloads in cloud environments, including SageMaker integrations and feature stores.

Location and Work Arrangement

• Remote position.
• Candidates must reside within the United States.

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, and disability insurance.
• Access to coaching and therapy services through Lyra for Lyrians.
• Company equity through discretionary restricted stock units.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with up to 3% company matching.
• Monthly technology allowance.
• Well-being perks, activities, surprise gifts, and regular community celebrations.