Location: Remote (U.S.)
Type: Full-time

About You

You're a hands-on DevOps expert who thrives at the intersection of automation, reliability, and scalable cloud infrastructure. You excel at building and maintaining resilient systems that keep product development moving quickly without compromising on security, reliability, or compliance.

You have experience supporting distributed engineering teams, and you know how to design deployment processes that just work. You’re passionate about leveraging automation and infrastructure-as-code to enable rapid iteration while upholding high standards of operational excellence. And you’re energized by working in an organization where engineering decisions directly accelerate progress in healthcare and clinical research.

What You'll Do

Own Azure Cloud Infrastructure

• Manage and optimize our Azure-based environments (compute, networking, security, storage, Kubernetes)
• Design and maintain production-grade infrastructure that scales with demand and uptime requirements
• Implement cost-efficient resource provisioning and monitoring

Build & Evolve Deployment Automation

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
• Drive automation across development, testing, and deployment workflows
• Manage containerization and orchestration (Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service, Helm)
• Ensure fast, reliable deployments across dev, QA, staging, and production environments
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies and automated rollback mechanisms

Enhance Reliability & Observability

• Own monitoring, logging, and alerting for proactive issue resolution (Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
• Continuously improve application availability, performance, and response time

Support Security, Compliance & Governance

• Partner with compliance teams to implement required controls for clinical data environments
• Support audits, vulnerability assessments, and environment access policies

Enable the Engineering Team

• Deliver tooling and automation that reduce friction for developers
• Provide clear documentation and guidance that improves developer experience
• Collaborate cross-functionally across time zones including U.S. and offshore teams

What You Have

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years DevOps, Cloud, or SRE experience in production environments
• Hands-on expertise with Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD automation
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, load balancing, and secrets management
• Experience tuning performance and optimizing infrastructure costs
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure and model deployment workflows in production environments
• Demonstrated success operating in fast-moving environments with high accountability
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  
  

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform or Azure Bicep)
• Experience with projects involving high speed data processing, large databases, performance
• Prior experience supporting distributed offshore engineering teams
• Experience supporting compliance requirements (HIPAA, GxP, ISO, or similar)
• Knowledge of regulated healthcare or life sciences industries

Why You'll Love It

You'll be at the forefront of transforming how clinical trials are conducted worldwide, directly contributing to bringing life-saving therapies to patients faster. Your data architecture and insights will power Ryght's AI platform that creates “AI Site Twins” of every clinical trial site globally, helping pharmaceutical companies identify the best research sites and streamline trial processes that traditionally take months into workflows that happen in days. This isn't just about building great data infrastructure; it's about being part of a mission where friction can disappear, drugs can be approved faster, and lives can be saved. Working with prestigious biotechs, pharma, and CROs, you'll see your work scale across a network that's revolutionizing a $140 billion industry.

At Ryght, a fast-growing startup, you'll have unparalleled opportunities for growth and impact. You'll help define our data practices from the ground up, working closely with leadership to shape both technical strategy and company direction. With our rapid expansion and ambitious vision, there's significant potential for career advancement as we scale our team and platform.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology including AI/ML initiatives
• Professional development opportunities and conference attendance
• Flexible work arrangements and strong work-life balance
• Collaborative and innovative work environment