Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS + Kubernetes)

Join a team revolutionizing mental healthcare.🧠

At Mentalyc, we are redefining the future of mental health care by merging the power of AI with clinical expertise. Our vision is to make therapy more effective, efficient, and truly measurable through insightful, data-driven interventions. Our mission is to build an AI-based platform that fully automates note-taking in therapy, creating an anonymized data set to help uncover the most effective therapeutic methods.

We believe in elevating mental health care, one note at a time. As a team, we are driven by curiosity, care, and collaboration. We push boundaries, embrace new ideas, and trust in each other and the process. We strive to inspire, innovate, and explore, all while ensuring data privacy and supporting therapists so they can focus on what matters most—delivering quality care.

If you share our passion for making a positive impact on mental healthcare and are excited to be part of a groundbreaking team, we invite you to join us at Mentalyc.

What We Offer:

• Creative and Dynamic Environment: Join an innovative, fast-growing, mission-driven startup dedicated to transforming mental health technology.
• Strategic Leadership Opportunities: Take ownership of scaling our infrastructure with potential growth into senior leadership roles as our team expands.
• Flexibility: Enjoy the benefits of a fully remote, diverse, and international team with flexible working hours to support a healthy work-life balance.
• High Impact Role: Play a key role in enhancing our platform’s infrastructure, ensuring seamless scalability and stability, and driving strategic growth.
• Collaborative Culture: Be part of a supportive team that values collaboration, diverse perspectives, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and scale the core infrastructure on AWS to support a rapidly growing user base.
• Maintain, improve, and be fully responsible for SOC2 compliance, ensuring standards are consistently met across all infrastructure components.
• Integrate DevOps practices into the development lifecycle, driving automation with CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
• Optimize the performance of our Kubernetes cluster and related services.
• Drive improvements to AI services to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Own system architecture and strategic planning, collaborating with Product Managers and business leaders to align technical strategy with business goals.

Requirements:

• Proven track record of scaling and optimizing large-scale, high-availability applications in dynamic, fast-growth environments, with a focus on compliance and security.
• Extensive experience building scalable AWS infrastructure with services such as EC2, S3, Cloudfront, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, ECR, and RDBS.
• Mastery of DevOps tools and best practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Full responsibility for deploying and optimizing server infrastructure, ideally on NodeJS.
• Experience setting up observability dashboards and alerting for proactive monitoring.
• Proven experience optimizing costs, improving performance, and ensuring system reliability.
• Previous experience setting up or maintaining SOC2 compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Nice to Have:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
• Experience with MlOps and model performance optimization.
• Familiarity with other security and compliance standards beyond SOC2 (eg. ISO27001)
• Experience with transcription services and technologies.

Personal Qualities:

• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking to tackle complex challenges effectively.
• Exceptional communication skills to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams.
• Highly organized and structured in your approach, maintaining precision and consistency in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive and self-motivated, taking initiative to exceed expectations with minimal supervision.
• Passion for continuous learning and improvement, with a willingness to explore new technologies and methodologies.
• Embraces challenges and thrives under pressure, with a drive to achieve ambitious goals.

Have questions or would like to know more before applying?

Reach us at: [email protected]