Senior DevOps Engineer

About Ada Health

At Ada, we envision a world where everyone gets the healthcare they need. Yet, millions remain undiagnosed and untreated due to the complexity of identifying rare and underrecognized conditions, even when effective treatments exist. We’re changing that. Powered by leading AI and built by a team of physicians and clinical scientists, Ada helps people get answers faster, identifying those at risk and guiding them to the right care. Every successful journey makes us smarter and able to help more people. If you’re passionate about transforming healthcare and ensuring no one goes undiagnosed, join us and be part of what’s next.

About the Senior DevOps Engineer Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. Reporting into our Head of Infrastructure, you will work on different topics to help people/teams across Ada to proactively improve the ability to deliver, maintain and support products related to infrastructure, such as: Kubernetes clusters, databases, cache stores, buckets, CDN etc. This is a remote position based in Canada. Due to collaboration with colleagues based across Europe, applicants should be able to perform their core working hours in the Eastern Time Zone or Atlantic Time Zone with adjusted schedules to ensure effective partnerships with European teams.

What you’ll do

• Extend and improve our container-based infrastructure, running in Kubernetes and continue to automate away manual processes.
• Partner with your colleagues from engineering to embrace the idea of self-service tooling, making the best way the easiest way.
• Contribute to resilient CI/CD pipelines/processes to make sure that our engineering team is able to deploy features faster while being compliant to regulations.
• You’ll enable a high quality and fast IT environment for services and resources for engineering and/or data teams to run their Java, Kotlin and Python services, backed by MongoDB, Redis and/or PostgreSQL within Kubernetes clusters.
• Extend and maintain our automated monitoring and alerting systems.
• Train Developers on Infrastructure and Automation topics.

What you’ll bring

• A strong background in automated provisioning of Google Cloud Platform environments is essential, ideally you will also have experience with Azure.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Istio, Helm and cert-manager - these are all essential.
• Proven experience in distributed systems debugging.
• A deep understanding of the intrinsic link between infrastructure and the software delivery lifecycle, while maintaining a system thinking view of the business.
• An automation-first, AI-aware approach to operating and scaling systems.
• Focus on Security Engineering and InfoSec.
• Prior experience with Jenkins, Honeycomb, Sumologic, Cloudflare, AWS Docker, Terraform and mTLS systems would be beneficial.
• An awareness of ISO 27001, HIPPA, GDPR and MDR would be ideal.
• You understand the importance of distributed tracing and systems thinking expressed in metrics, visualized through graphics to make meaning intuitive.
• You have expertise in agile environments (Scrum or Kanban) as well as in following principles in continuous delivery.

What’s awaiting you at Ada

• Flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work/life balance
• 20 days vacation, plus public holidays to unplug, rest and recharge
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Support to set up your home office space, with the option for a co-working space subscription for our remote employees
• Parental benefits
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you look after your emotional wellbeing and deal with life’s challenges
• Online Academy for learning and development opportunities

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• CI/CD
• Automation
• Istio
• Helm
• Distributed Systems
• Security Engineering
• Monitoring & Alerting
• Terraform