Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Carrera Agency is seeking a Senior Developer/DevOps Engineer for a client in the medical device field. This hybrid role involves leading the modernization of a legacy Ruby on Rails application into a secure, cloud-native environment while ensuring compliance in a healthcare setting.
Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of legacy Ruby on Rails applications to containerized solutions (Docker/ECS), optimizing for scalability, high availability, and performance
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible), and comprehensive monitoring and alerting suites
- Enhance deployment practices, incident response protocols, and system access logging
- Maintain optimal cloud resource utilization by right-sizing instances, investigating overspend, and proposing actionable cost-saving recommendations
- Set up, provision, and monitor disaster recovery regions in AWS, including multi-region database deployments
- Support healthcare data interchange initiatives using BOOMI atoms and molecules
- Participate in technical requirements gathering, AWS infrastructure design, and DevOps/CI/CD process design in collaboration with architecture leadership
- Conduct deep code archeology and reverse engineering of the existing Ruby/RoR codebase to identify legacy dependencies, refactor as necessary, and facilitate containerization and CI/CD automation
- Contribute development expertise to support application performance improvements, feature enhancements, and technical debt reduction
- Act as a guardian of AWS infrastructure — manage CVEs, patch windows, and maintain strict HIPAA/HITRUST compliance controls
- Oversee and maintain application and infrastructure security, including managing patch windows, vulnerability assessments, and security standards compliance
- Adhere to all Corporate Compliance guidelines, OIG, government healthcare regulations, and privacy and security standards, including HIPAA requirements
- Treat Protected Health Information (PHI) with the strictest confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA standards
- Collaborate with the Managed Service Provider (MSP), ensuring a productive, aligned, and effective partnership
- Mentor less experienced team members, promoting a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence
- Identify, analyze, and resolve system problems proactively and with urgency
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on Linux/Unix system administration
- Strong shell scripting skills (Bash, and/or Python/Ruby for automation)
- Experience with package management, log analysis, performance tuning, and hardening Linux systems in a regulated or security-conscious environment
- 5+ years of DevOps and/or systems administration experience with deep, hands-on knowledge of EC2, ECS, ECR, RDS (Postgres), Lambda, and multi-account networking
- 5+ years of development background in Ruby/RoR
- Proven experience with continuous integration tools, with a strong preference for GitHub Action expertise
- Mastery of IaC and configuration management via Terraform, CloudFormation, Fargate, Chef and/or comparable tools
- Strong background in managing vulnerabilities, patching schedules, and operating within highly regulated frameworks (HIPAA/HITRUST)
- Knowledge of database management with light DBA skills; Postgres and MySQL experience preferred
- Leadership & Ownership: Takes charge of modernization initiatives, drives them to completion within agreed timelines, and holds themselves accountable for outcomes
- Communication: Communicates effectively across the organization
- Continued Learning: Proactively stays current with emerging technologies, AI tooling, and modern deployment methodologies
- Execution: Strong time management, attention to detail, and analytical mindset; passionate about clean code and modern infrastructure practices
- Culture: Self-starter, motivated, and results-driven
- Experience working with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as a core part of the development workflow
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps Admin Associate, or DevOps Engineer Professional)
Benefits
Company Overview
The Carrera Agency is a talent management agency that specializes in information technology, digital strategy and design. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.thecarreraagency.com/.