About Us

Redica Systems is a SaaS start-up serving more than 200 customers within the life science sector, with a specific focus on Pharmaceuticals and MedTech. Embracing a hybrid model, our workforce is distributed globally, with headquarters in Pleasanton, CA.

Redica's data analytics platform empowers companies to improve product quality and navigate evolving regulations. Using proprietary processes, we harness one of the industry's most comprehensive datasets, sourced from hundreds of health agencies and the Freedom of Information Act.

Our customers use Redica Systems to more effectively and efficiently manage their inspection preparation, monitor their supplier quality, and perform regulatory surveillance.

More information is available at redica.com.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS and experience with Azure to lead our cloud infrastructure, DevOps, automation, observability, reliability, and DevSecOps initiatives. This is a highly hands-on senior-level role responsible for architecting, implementing, troubleshooting, and continuously improving Redica’s infrastructure while providing technical leadership and mentoring across Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Own the architecture, deployment, and operation of AWS production infrastructure, with Azure as a secondary cloud.
Design secure, highly available, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud architectures across compute, networking, storage, databases, security, and platform services.
Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
Design and operate container platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, ECS/Fargate, and Helm; support Azure AKS where appropriate.
Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, deployment, rollback, and release processes; apply GitOps practices where appropriate.
Build production observability using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, CloudTrail, logging, metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing.
Establish reliability metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and operational KPIs; lead incident response, complex production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and improvements that reduce alert fatigue.
Embed security into infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud operations using AWS IAM, KMS, Security Groups, NACLs, CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, and appropriate vulnerability-management controls.
Implement SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning, IaC scanning, cloud security posture management, and security remediation while supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and related compliance requirements.
Own backup and disaster-recovery architecture and testing aligned to defined RTO/RPO requirements, and drive cloud cost optimization through rightsizing, autoscaling, tagging, reserved capacity/Savings Plans, and infrastructure optimization.
Act as a technical authority for Cloud, DevOps, and Infrastructure: lead architecture reviews, define cloud and IaC standards, mentor engineers, partner with Engineering, Security, AI, Product, and QA, and use AI and automation to improve engineering quality, reliability, and efficiency.

About You

Tech Savvy: Demonstrates deep expertise across cloud, infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and platform technologies. Evaluates emerging technologies and AI capabilities critically, implementing those that materially improve performance, scalability, reliability, security, or productivity.
Manages Complexity: Navigates highly complex technical and organizational environments. Balances trade-offs between scalability, reliability, security, speed, quality, and cost while resolving intricate system challenges.
Plans and Aligns: Translates strategic objectives into coordinated infrastructure and platform execution plans across teams or domains. Anticipates risks and ensures sequencing, scope, and investment align with business impact.
Collaborates: Proactively engages across Engineering, Security, Product, QA, AI, and other functions to resolve dependencies, share expertise, and improve delivery outcomes.
Manages Ambiguity: Navigates ambiguous technical and business requirements with confidence, bringing structure and clarity to complex production, infrastructure, and platform decisions.
Strategic Mindset: Connects infrastructure and platform decisions to Redica’s long-term technical and business strategy, anticipating future reliability, security, scalability, and cost requirements.
Engaged: Not only shares our values but also possesses the essential competencies needed to thrive at Redica, as outlined here.

Qualifications

BE/BSC degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles, with Principal-level technical ownership.
AWS & Azure: Expert-level AWS production experience across EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Organizations, KMS, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, AWS Backup, SNS, SQS, and EventBridge; hands-on experience with Azure VMs, VNets, AKS, Storage, Azure Monitor, Entra ID, and Azure Container Registry.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Expert-level Terraform/IaC experience, including reusable module design and strong Python, Bash, or similar scripting skills.
Containers & Delivery: Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Helm, CI/CD, automated release processes, and production deployment practices; GitOps/Argo CD experience is a plus.
Observability, Security & Reliability: Strong experience with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Linux, networking, cloud security, incident management, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and production root-cause analysis.
Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional; Azure certifications; AWS Organizations/multi-account architecture; FinOps; CSPM/CNAPP platforms; and experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR.

Additional Information

We’re looking for a hands-on AWS expert with Principal-level ownership who can architect solutions, build and automate infrastructure, troubleshoot complex production environments, improve security and reliability, optimize cloud costs, and mentor engineers. The ideal candidate is comfortable working end-to-end across AWS architecture, Terraform, EKS/ECS, CI/CD, Grafana/Loki, security, reliability, cost optimization, and technical leadership. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits packages, and a dynamic environment where you can continue to grow your technical impact.

Top Pharma Companies, Food Manufacturers, MedTech Companies, and Service firms from around the globe rely on Redica Systems to mine and process government inspection, enforcement, and registration data to quantify risk signals about their suppliers, identify market opportunities, benchmark against their peers, and prepare for the latest inspection trends. Our data and analytics have been cited by major media outlets such as MSNBC, WSJ, and the Boston Globe.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed and valued. We believe that diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences is essential to our success. We are always looking for talented individuals who can bring unique skills and perspectives to our team.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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