DevOps Cloud Engineer

Employment Type Full time; Monday-Friday, 8 am-5pm (every other Friday off)
Must be a resident of the state of Idaho or Utah
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Reports To: CTO

Job Description: DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Position Summary
We are seeking a skilled DevOps / Systems Administrator to help maintain, secure, and evolve
our cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role supports two core
application environments:

This position is responsible for infrastructure reliability, security, performance, operational
maturity, and effective collaboration with internal development teams and external infrastructure
service partners. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across traditional VM-based
environments and modern containerized cloud-native systems, with a strong security mindset
and a practical approach to availability, maintainability, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure and Operations

Security and Compliance
Legacy platform: PHP application running on virtual machines with Apache and MySQL
Modern platform: JavaScript / FHIR-based application using PostgreSQL and Kubernetes

Administer, maintain, and improve GCP-based infrastructure for both legacy and modern
application stacks
Manage compute, networking, storage, IAM, secrets, logging, monitoring, backup, and
disaster recovery capabilities
Maintain and optimize VM-based application environments, including Apache, PHP, MySQL,
Linux systems, and supporting services
Support and operate Kubernetes-based environments for modern applications, including
cluster health, deployments, scaling, ingress, observability, and platform stability
Maintain CI/CD and operational workflows that support reliable application delivery across
environments
Monitor system health, performance, availability, and capacity, and proactively address risks
and bottlenecks
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation planning

Help design, implement, and enforce security best practices across infrastructure,
platforms, and operational processes

Collaboration and Platform Support

Required Qualifications
Harden systems and services, manage patching processes, and reduce infrastructure risk
exposure
Maintain secure IAM, access controls, secrets handling, certificate management, and
network segmentation
Partner with development teams and service providers to improve secure deployment
patterns and operational controls
Support audit, compliance, vulnerability remediation, logging, and evidence-gathering
processes as needed
Continuously evaluate infrastructure and application architecture for security improvements

Work closely with software development teams to support application delivery,
troubleshooting, performance, and operational readiness
Serve as a bridge between engineering, operations, security, and external infrastructure
partners
Coordinate with third-party service providers, cloud partners, and infrastructure vendors on
implementation, troubleshooting, and operational improvements
Contribute to infrastructure standards, documentation, runbooks, and operational processes
Help guide architecture decisions with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, and
supportability

Strong hands-on experience administering production systems in Google Cloud Platform
Experience supporting Linux-based web application environments
Strong experience with one or more of the following:
Apache / PHP / MySQL on VMs
Kubernetes-based application platforms
PostgreSQL administration in application environments
Experience with cloud networking, firewalls, IAM, service accounts, DNS, TLS/certificates,
load balancing, and backup/recovery
Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles and operational hardening
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response
Experience working directly with software engineers and technical vendors / service
partners
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills

This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add to or change the duties and responsibilities at any time.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $86,250.00 - $174,680.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote