D.A.W. Systems, Inc. is a leader in healthcare technology, dedicated to empowering healthcare professionals, hospice, and hospitals with innovative solutions. Our flagship product, ScriptSure, is an award-winning E-Prescribing application that has earned the industry’s White Coat Award for many years. Trusted by providers nationwide, ScriptSure streamlines electronic prescribing processes and improves patient care. We believe in fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where creativity thrives, and employees are encouraged to explore new technologies. We are a remote-first company, with a distributed team across the United States.
We are seeking a passionate and self-motivated Senior DevOps Manager to join our team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in maintaining and enhancing ScriptSure, ensuring it continues to set the standard for E-Prescribing excellence.
Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS | Terraform
Are you a DevOps professional passionate about cloud automation, database performance, and infrastructure scalability? Do you thrive in environments where optimizing SQL queries, fine-tuning AWS Aurora, and leveraging Terraform for robust infrastructure-as-code are daily challenges? If so, we want you to join our innovative team!
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, MySQL Aurora, and Datadog. In this role, you’ll architect and optimize cloud-native infrastructures, focusing heavily on database performance, monitoring, cost efficiency, and automation. You’ll be instrumental in driving best practices for scalability, reliability, and security across our cloud ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform with a focus on
scalability, resilience, and security.
- Optimize MySQL Aurora databases — from schema design to advanced query tuning and performance troubleshooting.
- Implement proactive monitoring and alerting using Datadog, ensuring system health, database efficiency, and rapid incident response.
- Develop and automate CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, integrating infrastructure, application deployments, and database migrations.
- Lead SQL performance audits, indexing strategies, and query optimization initiatives to ensure peak database performance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to embed infrastructure and database best practices into the development lifecycle.
- Monitor AWS billing and implement cost-optimization strategies across compute,
storage, and database services.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and database issues in production environments.
- Stay ahead of evolving cloud technologies, advocating for continuous improvement and modernization
What You Bring:
- 7+ years of DevOps / Cloud Engineering experience with a strong emphasis on AWS
environments.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in AWS services, especially RDS/Aurora (MySQL), EC2, S3,
Lambda, IAM, VPC, ECS, and CloudFormation.
- Proven Terraform mastery for building and managing production-grade infrastructure.
- Advanced experience in SQL performance tuning, query optimization, and managing large-scale Aurora MySQL clusters.
- Strong proficiency with Datadog for infrastructure and database monitoring, alerting, anddashboards.
- Expertise in automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, networking, and high-availability architectures.
- AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) required; additional Terraform and MySQL certifications are a strong plus.
- Experience with cost management and rightsizing resources in AWS.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.
Why You’ll Love Working With Us:
- High-Impact Projects: Drive mission-critical initiatives optimizing cloud infrastructure and databases.
- Tech-Forward Culture: Work with modern DevOps tools and best practices in a
collaborative environment.
- Flexible Work: Choose between fully remote or hybrid work models.
- Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary, and comprehensive benefits.
- Innovative Team: Join a group of passionate engineers who value knowledge sharing and technical excellence.
Who You Are:
The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter who:
- Demonstrates initiative and takes ownership of tasks.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and adapts quickly to new challenges.
- Is eager to learn and passionate about making a meaningful impact.
- Enjoys exploring innovative solutions and has a hands-on approach to problem-solving.
Your Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- Proven experience (7+ years)
- Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design methodologies.
- Expertise in React and its core technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Expertise in backend development leveraging Node.js, Express, and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB).
- Fluent with version control systems, particularly GitLab, for code management and collaboration.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Ability to self-manage priorities and tasks in a remote working environment.
Differentiators (but not required):
- Experience in Healthcare EMR and ERX industry and applications.
- Experience in building, managing, and handling data with PHI (HIPAA Compliance).
- Expertise in software security and data protection methodologies.
- Expertise in data modeling, storage, and scalability using SQL (mySQL/Aurora).
- Expertise leveraging AI/ML technologies for advanced text search, natural language processing, and data retrieval.
- Experience writing unit-tests with Jest.
Employee Benefits:
- Remote Work available
- Vacation: 2-Weeks + Company Holidays + 2 personal + 2 sick days
- Medical/Vision Insurance (eligible after 90 days) - Insurance Stipend option available
- Dental Insurance (eligible after 90 days) - Insurance Stipend available
- 401k: Match up to 3% (eligible after 12 months)
- Bonus Potential Depending on Performance
- Excellent Work/Life Balance
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $90,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Compensation Package:
- Performance bonus
- Profit sharing
- Yearly pay
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Latham, NY 12110
