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Senior DevOps Engineer

Own and evolve the infrastructure for Sword Health's AI Care platform as a Senior DevOps Engineer in a fully remote role.

Location
Remote - US
Compensation
$140k–$220k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

What you'll build

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure
  • Automate and streamline deployment processes
  • Monitor and optimize system performance
  • Collaborate with development, data, and security teams
  • Lead incident response and troubleshooting

Must have

  • Experience with Linux environments
  • Experience with DevOps and GitOps methodologies
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Containerized applications
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Experience with Monitoring Tools
  • Experience with Jenkins

Nice to have

  • Experience/Knowledge with Kafka
  • Experience with PHP
  • Experience provisioning servers and services using AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Good know-how about Cloud Networking
  • Experience/Knowledge with Istio

AI in the day-to-day

Every candidate is assessed against our three-level framework — be ready to share real examples of how AI is already part of how you work.

Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior DevOps Engineer at Sword Health, the individual is responsible for designing and maintaining the infrastructure that supports the company's AI Care platform, ensuring it is scalable and reliable. Key skills include expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code, along with a strong grasp of CI/CD processes. This position is well-suited for experienced professionals who thrive in collaborative environments and have a proactive approach to problem-solving. The role also involves mentoring junior team members and staying current with industry trends.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 11, 2026. Last confirmed on Sword Health's careers page November 2, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
  • Starts above 19% of 84 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $165,000 across 38 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
  • Kubernetes appears in 67.4% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; Elasticsearch appears in 0.5% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior DevOps Engineer role remote?
Yes — Sword Health lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?
Sword Health lists $140,000–$220,000 for this role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Alertmanager, Azure, CI/CD, DNS, DevOps.
What seniority level is this role?
Sword Health targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior DevOps Engineer role at Sword Health.

From the original posting

At Sword, we’re building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential. In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full.

  • Explorer (Level 1) — Uses AI daily to boost personal productivity

Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Sword Health, you'll own and evolve the infrastructure that powers the world's leading AI Care platform. Working across a multi-cloud environment, you'll build and maintain the systems behind our frontends, backends, microservices, and data pipelines - collaborating closely with multiple engineering teams to keep everything reliable, scalable, and fast. You'll also interface with our AI teams as their models move into production, ensuring the infrastructure is ready to support them. If you thrive in cross-team environments and want your infrastructure work to directly impact healthcare at scale - we'd love to hear from you.

To get to know more about our Tech Stack, check here.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure to support Sword Health’s high-demand applications and services.
  • Automate and streamline deployment processes, CI/CD pipelines, and routine maintenance tasks to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure high availability and reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with development, data, and security teams to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure and code changes.
  • Drive security best practices by implementing and managing access control, network security, and compliance-related policies across the infrastructure.
  • Lead incident response and troubleshooting for infrastructure-related issues, ensuring rapid and effective resolution to maintain service continuity.
  • Mentor and guide junior team members, sharing DevOps best practices and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, bringing innovative solutions to Sword Health’s DevOps processes and toolchains.

What you need to have

  • Experience with Linux environments.
  • Experience with DevOps and GitOps methodologies.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Containerized applications (Docker).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Experience with Monitoring Tools (Google Cloud Monitoring/StackDriver, Grafana, Prometheus/AlertManager, NewRelic).
  • Experience with Jenkins.
  • Experience with CI/CD.
  • Team player, Solution-oriented, Proactive attitude with “Get Things Done” mindset.
  • Enthusiast and interested in technologies and innovation.
  • Fluent in English (written and oral).
  • Extra: Experience/Knowledge with Kafka, Prometheus/AlertManager, Grafana, Elasticsearch/ Logstash/ Kibana, Vault, Redis, MySQL, DNS.
  • Usage of AI to debug and develop Infrastructure tooling.
  • Development of AI Agents to automate processes and Infrastructure monitoring and provisioning.
  • Extra: Experience with PHP, Javascript, GoLang.
  • Extra: Experience provisioning servers and services using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Extra: Experience/Knowledge with Istio.
  • Extra: Good know-how about Cloud Networking including VPC Management, Routing, NAT, and overall troubleshooting using TCPdump analysis.

*The range below reflects base, variable, and equity for this role.

Total Compensation Range
$140,000—$220,000 USD

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