Development Operations Engineer
Sacramento, CA
Full Time
Information Technology
Experienced
Department: Information Technology | Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Travel: None
Salary: $122,574 - $140,000
"Our purpose is strong, our impact is lasting, join us on the journey"
Western Health Advantage
Build the Infrastructure That Enables Speed, Stability, and Secure Identity Management
Western Health Advantage is seeking a skilled Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer to help design, deploy, and maintain the systems that power our software platforms, with a strong emphasis on OKTA-based identity and access management solutions. In this role, you will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on expertise to support CI/CD pipelines, secure authentication and authorization frameworks, hybrid infrastructure, and release management—ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure deployments across environments.
This position is ideal for a DevOps professional who enjoys automating complex systems, strengthening identity and security capabilities, and continuously improving how software is built, tested, and released in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What You’ll Do
As a Development Operations Engineer, you will play a critical role in improving developer productivity, system reliability, and deployment efficiency. Your responsibilities will include:
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a technically strong DevOps Engineer with deep hands-on experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable and scalable systems.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Why Join Western Health Advantage?
At Western Health Advantage, our DevOps team plays a critical role in ensuring our systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. You’ll work in a collaborative IT environment where your expertise directly supports innovation, operational excellence, and the teams who depend on the platforms you build.
Physical Requirements
This role is primarily office-based with minimal physical demands. While performing job duties, the employee may occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach, or use hands to handle objects. The employee may occasionally lift or move up to 10 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.
Travel: None
Salary: $122,574 - $140,000
"Our purpose is strong, our impact is lasting, join us on the journey"
Western Health Advantage
Build the Infrastructure That Enables Speed, Stability, and Secure Identity Management
Western Health Advantage is seeking a skilled Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer to help design, deploy, and maintain the systems that power our software platforms, with a strong emphasis on OKTA-based identity and access management solutions. In this role, you will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on expertise to support CI/CD pipelines, secure authentication and authorization frameworks, hybrid infrastructure, and release management—ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure deployments across environments.
This position is ideal for a DevOps professional who enjoys automating complex systems, strengthening identity and security capabilities, and continuously improving how software is built, tested, and released in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What You’ll Do
As a Development Operations Engineer, you will play a critical role in improving developer productivity, system reliability, and deployment efficiency. Your responsibilities will include:
- Building and maintaining OKTA solutions for multi-cohort, multi-entitlement identity management environments
- Implementing API gateway solutions, including routing and rate limiting
- Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, tooling, and user interfaces to support scalable, high-frequency deployments with minimal downtime
- Leveraging commercial and open-source tools to manage deployments across test, production, and customer-facing environments
- Driving Release Management strategy, framework design, and execution across Agile and Waterfall projects, including release calendars and zero-downtime initiatives
- Evaluating and improving version control and configuration management tools to enable parallel development and real-time change impact analysis
- Developing and maintaining DevOps standards, guidelines, best practices, and procedures (DevOps Playbook)
- Defining and implementing test automation and continuous testing strategies that support test-driven development (TDD) across multiple platforms
- Defining and supporting test environment management strategies and tooling to efficiently provision and manage environments
- Partnering with Infrastructure teams to automate scaling and server resource management in support of CI/CD and zero-downtime goals
- Collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Monitoring industry trends and emerging tools to continuously improve DevOps practices
- Participating in required after-hours activities, such as scheduled server patching
- Supporting special projects and performing additional duties as assigned
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a technically strong DevOps Engineer with deep hands-on experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable and scalable systems.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Science or a related discipline
- 5 years of IT experience, including at least 3 years of hands-on DevOps implementation
- 3 years of experience with Okta development and administration
- Experience implementing solutions in multi-layered hybrid environments
- Experience designing, implementing, and managing Release Management processes across business- and customer-facing environments
- Experience architecting, designing, and implementing CI/CD frameworks in both legacy and modern environments
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems (including Ubuntu) and at least one scripting language such as Python, Shell, Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nginx, HAProxy, ELK stack, or similar SDLC tools
- Experience using Git and Git-based source control tools (e.g., Bitbucket)
- Strong understanding of engineering best practices for building high-performance, reliable, and scalable web services
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace
Preferred Qualifications
- IIS and Windows Server experience
- Experience working with microservices architectures and modern web technologies (Docker, REST, Node.js, React, JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, Git, Big Data architectures)
- Previous experience in the healthcare industry, particularly within an HMO environment
Why Join Western Health Advantage?
At Western Health Advantage, our DevOps team plays a critical role in ensuring our systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. You’ll work in a collaborative IT environment where your expertise directly supports innovation, operational excellence, and the teams who depend on the platforms you build.
Physical Requirements
This role is primarily office-based with minimal physical demands. While performing job duties, the employee may occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach, or use hands to handle objects. The employee may occasionally lift or move up to 10 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.
Western Health Advantage is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants for employment on the basis of merit and without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, military or veteran status, or any other basis made unlawful by federal or state law.
Western Health Advantage values and supports the unique talents and strengths that each employee brings to our organization. Collaborating with the best and the brightest means a dynamic, fulfilling work experience for you — and excellent customer service for our members.
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