Lead DevOps Engineer

**Company Description** Amwell digitally empowers payers, providers and innovators, enabling an ecosystem of care that spans across in-person, virtual and automated care. Amwell provides a leading hybrid care enablement platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, payers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care. Amwell believes that hybrid care delivery will transform healthcare. The company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all digital health needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living. With nearly two decades of experience, Amwell powers the hybrid care of more than 55 health plans, which collectively represent more than 90 million covered lives, and many of the nation’s largest health systems, representing over 2,000 hospitals, have access to Amwell solutions. **Brief Overview**: We are seeking a dynamic Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead our migration project to Elastic Cloud and ensure the operational readiness of our ELK infrastructure. This role involves performing necessary upgrades, updating index templates, agents, helm charts, and observability pipelines to maintain optimal performance. Key responsibilities include assessing current observability needs, identifying gaps, and developing actionable plans to enhance our systems. The Lead DevOps will actively participate in and occasionally lead sprint cycle ceremonies, ensuring that the team’s work aligns with organizational goals. **Core Responsibilities**: - Lead the migration project to Elastic Cloud - Maintain operational readiness and performance of ELK infrastructure - Perform upgrades as required - Updating index templates, agents, helm charts, observability pipelines as required - Assess Observability needs against current implementations; identify gaps and create actionable plans to address them. - Participate in and occasionally lead sprint cycle team ceremonies and ensure planned work is aligned with goals and priorities - Provide mentoring to team members - Ensure strict compliance with regulations such as HIPAA and PCI **Qualifications**: - 5+ years experience configuring, deploying and maintaining ELK stacks - Experience indexing medium to large datasets - Solid understanding of observability principles and components - Experience with development and deployment to AWS - Experience with infrastructure-as-code (terraform, hcl) - Deep understanding of system performance optimization, scalability, architecture, and design concepts Experience managing containers using Docker/Kubernetes - Experience leading remote teams across multiple regions and time zones - Proficiency with SCM (Git) - Experience with OpenTelemetry agents, SDKs and standards - Experience with Elastic Profiling Agent - Passionate about providing greater transparency to health and status of Amwell systems - Keenly empathetic to the day-to-day experience of software development teams Clear, effective, transparent communication - Capable of delivering and accepting empathetic, constructive criticism with reports, peers, leadership and stakeholders - Conscious of the developers need for speed of delivery and Amwell’s need for governance and cost management **Job Level:P4** **Working at Amwell**: Amwell is changing how care is delivered through online and mobile technology. We strive to make the hard work of healthcare look easy. In order to make this a reality, we look for people with a fast-paced, mission-driven mentality. We’re a culture that prides itself on quality, efficiency, smarts, initiative, creative thinking, and a strong work ethic. Our Core Values include One Team, Customer First, and Deliver Awesome. Customer First and Deliver Awesome are all about our product and services and how we strive to serve. As part of One Team, we operate the Amwell Cares program, which brings needed assistance to our communities, whether that be free healthcare for the underserved or for people affected by natural disasters, support for equality, honoring doctors and nurses, or annual Amwell-matched donations to food banks. Amwell aims to be a force for good for our employees, our clients, and our communities. Amwell cares deeply about and supports Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. These initiatives are highlighted and reflected within our Three DE&I Pillars - our Workplace, our Workforce and our Community. **Amwell **is a "virtual first" workplace, which means you can work from anywhere, coming together physically for ideation, collaboration and client meetings. We enable our employees with the tools, resources and opportunities to do their jobs effectively wherever they are **Additional Benefits** - Flexible Personal Time Off (Vacation time) - 401K match - Competitive healthcare, dental and vision insurance plans - Birthing parents at Amwell enjoy up to 18 weeks of paid maternity leave - Non-birthing pa