Role overview

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Requirements and responsibilities

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Platform Reliability & Operations

  • Own the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of Claritas Rx's AWS-hosted SaaS platform, with accountability for SLA/SLO commitments made to customers.

Platform Reliability & Operations

  • Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) across all production services; use error budgets to drive engineering prioritization conversations.

Platform Reliability & Operations

  • Lead incident response and on-call operations: triage, coordinate resolution, communicate to stakeholders, and conduct thorough post-incident reviews with actionable corrective actions.

Platform Reliability & Operations

  • Drive a proactive reliability culture — identifying risks before they become incidents through load testing, chaos engineering, and systematic failure mode analysis.

Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

  • Architect, build, and maintain AWS cloud-native infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK, Terraform, or equivalent), ensuring environments are reproducible, auditable, and secure.

Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

  • Oversee and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to enable rapid, safe, and consistent delivery of application and infrastructure changes across environments.

Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

  • Manage and optimize core AWS services including ECS, EC2, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, SQS, EventBridge, Cognito, Secrets Manager, and CloudFront.

Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

  • Ensure robust observability across the stack — centralizing logs, metrics, traces, and alerts using CloudWatch, Sentry, and related tooling — so the team can detect and respond to issues quickly.

Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

  • Manage platform capacity planning, cost optimization, and cloud spend governance.

Security, Compliance & Data Protection

  • Ensure all infrastructure design and operational practices meet HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST requirements, given the PHI our platform processes.

Security, Compliance & Data Protection

  • Partner with the Security function on vulnerability management, infrastructure hardening, secrets management, and access control.

Security, Compliance & Data Protection

  • Maintain and regularly test disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, including defined RTO/RPO targets for all production systems.

Security, Compliance & Data Protection

  • Support audit readiness and evidence collection for compliance certifications.

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a blended team of full-time SREs/DevOps engineers and offshore contractors, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

  • Manage distributed team dynamics effectively — establishing clear communication rhythms, documentation standards, and handoff protocols to ensure offshore resources are productive and well-integrated.

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

  • Conduct regular 1:1s, set clear goals and development plans for direct reports, and advocate for your team's growth and recognition.

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

  • Build and maintain a healthy on-call rotation with appropriate tooling, runbooks, and escalation paths to protect team sustainability.

Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Collaborate with Software Engineering teams to embed reliability practices into the SDLC — including production readiness reviews, deployment standards, and shared observability tooling.

Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Work with Product Management and Engineering leadership to balance feature delivery velocity against operational risk and technical debt.

Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Contribute to architecture decisions across the platform, providing an operational and reliability perspective on new services and major technical changes.

Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Champion automation-first thinking: eliminate toil through tooling, scripting, and process improvement wherever possible.

Our Stack

  • Cloud: AWS (ECS, EC2, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, SQS, EventBridge, Cognito, Secrets Manager, CloudFront, WAF)

Our Stack

  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (primary); familiarity with Terraform/OpenTofu a plus

Our Stack

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Our Stack

  • Application Platform: NestJS/TypeScript (backend), React/TypeScript (frontend), PostgreSQL, Turborepo, pnpm

Our Stack

  • Data Platform: AWS Glue, Lake Formation, PySpark, Kinesis (data streaming), Python-based ELT pipelines

Our Stack

  • Observability & Monitoring: CloudWatch (logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards), Sentry, OpenFeature (feature flags), Tableau

Our Stack

  • Languages in Use Across Engineering: TypeScript, Python, SQL; Golang familiarity a plus

Our Stack

  • Work Management: Jira

Our Stack

  • Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, HITRUST

Required Skills:

  • 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years in a people management or team lead capacity.
  • Deep, hands-on AWS expertise — you understand how to architect, operate, and optimize cloud-native workloads at the service level, not just at a conceptual level.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (AWS CDK, Terraform, or equivalent); you treat infrastructure like software.
  • Demonstrated experience owning SLOs, incident management, and on-call operations in a commercial SaaS environment.
  • Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and developer productivity tooling, with a strong understanding of deployment safety (canary releases, feature flags, rollback strategies).
  • Solid working knowledge of security and compliance requirements relevant to regulated data environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
  • Proven ability to lead and develop a team, including working effectively with offshore or distributed contractors across time zones.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills — you can explain infrastructure risk and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where priorities evolve and initiative is expected.
  • Role is primarily remote with occasional travel requirements.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in a healthcare technology or digital health environment with direct exposure to HIPAA-regulated PHI.
  • Familiarity with the application stack in use at Claritas Rx (TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, React).
  • Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools (including Claude) to improve operational workflows, accelerate runbook development, or automate incident triage.
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
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