Remote Sr. Devops Engineer

About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
About the Role:

We’re looking for an exceptional Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a Lyra Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, as well as supporting our software delivery pipelines. We care deeply about making a difference in people’s lives, and we hope you do too!

You will focus heavily on modernizing our platform tooling, evolving our production Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) footprint, and optimizing our managed cloud datastores (AWS RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache). If you love creating frictionless experiences for developers and automating core infrastructure, this role is for you.

This is a remote role however candidates must reside within the United States.

Responsibilities

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  Design and implement infrastructure using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Python, and Kubernetes onto our AWS cloud platform.

  
  


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  Collaborate closely with the engineering, data science and machine learning teams to continually implement, maintain, and improve our cloud infrastructure and developer experience.

  
  


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  Platform & Tooling Focus: Apply a software product mindset to build, maintain, and abstract internal platform tools, developer templates, and self-service CI/CD pipelines.

  
  


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  Automate infrastructure and operations tasks using scripting languages.

  
  


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  Security & Governance: Operationalize cloud security by enforcing continuous vulnerability remediation, strict IAM policies, and compliance guardrails directly within platform pipelines.

  
  


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  Monitor and analyze systems and network performance, and implement proactive measures to ensure the availability and reliability of our infrastructure.

  
  


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  Enforcing IAM processes and tools that ensure compliance with data privacy and protection regulations.

  
  


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  Working alongside engineers to ensure that security vulnerabilities are remediated.

  
  

Qualifications

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  5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure role heavily focused on public cloud environments (AWS required).

  
  


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  Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) a must, especially many of the following:

  
  
  
  
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    EKS, SageMaker, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, ELB/ALB, MWAA, Identity Center

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  Strong IaC Practices: Demonstrated experience building modular, reusable Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure.

  
  


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  Experience building and maintaining templates and packages with Helm.

  
  


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  Experience developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD.

  
  


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  Deep EKS & Container Expertise: Hands-on experience administering, scaling, and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes (EKS) environments in production.

  
  


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  Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to write automation scripts, tools, and integrations for internal development teams.

  
  


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  Effective communication and collaboration skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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  Experience with modern cluster autoscaling strategies (e.G., Karpenter) and cloud cost optimization techniques.

  
  


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  Familiarity with developer self-service tooling or internal developer portals

  
  


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  Proficiency with logging analysis, performance monitoring, and performance tuning.

  
  


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  Background supporting ML/Data Science workloads in cloud environments (e.G., SageMaker integrations, feature stores).

  
  

$128,000 - $176,000 a monthAs a full-time Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will be employed by Lyra Health, Inc. The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $128,000 to $176,000 a year. The base range is determined by role and level, and placement within the range will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

Annual salary is only one part of an employee’s total compensation package at Lyra. We also offer generous benefits that include:

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  Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)

  
  


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  Lyra for Lyrians;
  coaching and therapy services

  
  


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  Equity in the company through discretionary restricted stock units

  
  


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  Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays

  
  


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  Paid parental leave

  
  


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  401K with up to 3% matching

  
  


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  Monthly tech allowance

  
  


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  We like to spread joy throughout the year with well-being perks and activities, surprise swag, regular community celebration…and more!

  
  

We can’t wait to meet you.

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