Hi, we’re Gravie. Our mission is to improve the way people purchase and access healthcare through innovative, consumer-centric health benefit solutions that people can actually use. Our industry-changing products and services are developed and delivered by a diverse group of unique people. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.
A Little More About The role:
Gravie is looking for an experienced and effective Lead Platform Engineer to support our application infrastructure as we grow. Our ideal candidate is a highly motivated, goal-oriented, team-focused engineer with a passion for automating systems and infrastructure.
You will:
· Lead the architecture design and implementation of Gravie’s cloud platform to automate and speed software development and operations.
· Set cloud architecture standards and drive adherence through the development of platform guardrails, opinionated tooling and monitoring solutions.
· Lead, monitor and report on workload among team of platform engineers.
· Collaborate with development and testing teams to understand needed features and requirements to inform the platform roadmap.
· Oversee and enhance our cybersecurity strategies, ensuring the protection of computer systems, networks, and information with innovative security measures.
· Provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and process improvement.
· Strategically lead the design and implementation of proactive monitoring systems, ensuring optimal health, performance, and security of our cloud infrastructure.
· Manage high availability and disaster recovery systems, procedures, and readiness.
· Ensure the production of comprehensive, high-quality system documentation, setting standards for technical communication within the team.
· Exemplify and champion Gravie’s core values of authenticity, creativity, curiosity, empathy, and outcome orientation, inspiring your team to do the same.
You bring:
· Bachelor's degree in technology field or equivalent.
· Experience leading and mentoring junior engineers
· Experience with cloud infrastructure definition tools such as AWS CloudFormation/CDK and Terraform.
· Experience building service delivery pipelines using a CI/CD system such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CodePipeline.
· Experience with server configuration management software (e.g., Salt, Puppet, Ansible, Chef).
· Proven working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux based environments.
· Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures.
· Solid Cloud experience in a major public cloud provider (AWS, Google, Azure)
· Experience with virtualization and containerization.
· Experience with monitoring systems such as AWS CloudWatch and Datadog.
· Solid Git and programming/scripting skills (e.g. bash shell scripts, Python, Perl, Ruby, Groovy).
· Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
· Excellent organization, documentation, and communication skills.
· Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Extra credit:
· Previous start up company experience
Gravie:
In order to transform health insurance and build a health plan everyone can love, we need talented people doing amazing work. In exchange, we offer a great overall employee experience with opportunities for career growth, meaningful mission-driven work, and an above average total rewards package.
The salary range for this position is $116,250 - $193,750 annually. Numerous factors including, but not limited to, educations, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. will be considered when determining compensation. Stock options may also be awarded as part of the compensation package.
Our unique benefits program is the gravy, i.e., the special sauce that sets our compensation package apart. In addition to standard health and wellness benefits, Gravie’s package includes alternative medicine coverage, flexible PTO, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, paid holidays, a 401k program, cell phone reimbursement, transportation perks, education reimbursement, and 1 week of paid paw-ternity leave.
A Little More About Us:
· We know healthcare. Our company was founded and is still led by industry veterans who have started and grown several market-leading companies in the space.
· We have raised money from top tier investors who share the same long-term vision as we do of building an industry defining company that will endure over the long run. We are well capitalized.
· Our customers like us. Our revenue churn is in the low single digits, in an industry where greater than 20% churn is common.
· Our culture is unique. We tend to be non-hierarchical, merit-driven, opinionated but kind people who thrive working in a high-performance, fast-paced environment. People at Gravie care deeply about making a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve. We may not be the right place for everybody, but if you get energized by doing work every day that focuses on putting consumers at the front of the line, we could be a great place for you. It takes unique people and diverse perspectives to deliver our results. We encourage you to be your authentic self – we like you that way.