DevOps Engineer at K Health

Kyiv, UA

K Health is a venture-backed, fast-growing start-up with a mission to use the power of shared knowledge to get everyone access to higher quality, more affordable health care. We’re looking for mission-driven individuals to join our growing team and help us eliminate healthcare inequalities and build a better, healthier future for us all. 

Named to the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, K Health is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build the smartest digital healthcare platform in existence. Our data-driven app brings together the knowledge of thousands of doctors and the anonymous medical records of millions of people to help diagnose and treat what’s wrong. We offer a free symptom checker and 24/7 access to doctors to ask questions, refill prescriptions, get care for your kids, and more. Right from your phone—no insurance needed.  

Since we were founded in 2016, K Health has raised over $270M in VC funding. Our recent valuation brought us to Unicorn status. Our current partners include the Mayo Clinic Platform, Anthem, and Maccabi Health Services.

As a DevOps at K Health, you will be responsible for keeping the production system up and running as well as improving the automation, scalability, and performance of the system. You will participate in the design, build, release and manage highly available, scalable, robust and antifragile services. You will design, build and manage CI/CD pipelines. You will support and consult other teams and groups, suggest architecture improvements, and recommend process improvements.

Our technology stack:

• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• GraphDB
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• BigQuery
• Apache Airflow
• React Native

Responsibilities:

• Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation; suggest novel approaches to problems and drive the team to continually think outside of the box.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Ensure critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.
• Work with R&D teams to plan a CI/CD process to deliver predictable builds of measurable quality, to characterize and optimize the overall system performance

Personal Requirements:

• Experience with deploying, running and operating complex, high available and large-scale web applications on Amazon Web Services/Google Cloud Platform or similar.
• Good understanding of reliability engineering.
• Good understanding of monitoring, observability and analysis principles.
• Good understanding of scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture patterns.
• Deep understanding of Linux OS internals and troubleshooting.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration.
• Good understanding of deployment strategies.
• Good understanding of security-related technologies and concepts.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.
• Experience with “infrastructure as code” tooling.
• Good understanding and experience with databases.