AI-Native Platform Engineer - DevOps, Security & Compliance

Zenara Health is a technology-oriented mental healthcare organization building clinical software for behavioral-health clinics. We work with sensitive healthcare data, so reliability, security, access control, backups, and compliance are core to our product.

We are looking for a hands-on AI-Native Platform Engineer to own DevOps, production reliability, security operations, and compliance foundations.

Working Hours & Commitment

• Collaboration Window: All meetings and live collaboration happen between approximately 6:00 PM and 12:00 AM IST (overlapping US Pacific Time). Attendance during this window is required.
• Commitment: Approximately 50 hours per week.
• Industry: Healthcare technology experience preferred, but not mandatory.

What You'll Do

• Own production platform operations: deployments, monitoring, alerts, updates, and reliability.
• Own backups and regularly prove restores work.
• Manage access control, secrets, cloud configuration, and security checks.
• Organize HIPAA-related policies, controls, audit evidence, and customer security documentation.
• Identify, prioritize, and close platform and security gaps.
• Build a daily security and compliance agent that sweeps systems and reports findings.
• Work weekly with a senior security and compliance consultant.
• Create runbooks, checklists, and automation for repeatable operational work.
• Support incident response, recovery, and prevention.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience keeping startup systems and platforms running.
• Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, backups, and recovery experience.
• Experience with access control, secrets management, cloud configuration, and security basics.
• Proven ability to verify backups restore and systems recover.
• Ability to code and automate routine platform or security tasks.
• Comfort using AI agents to build automation and operational workflows.
• Calm judgment during incidents and production issues.
• Strong ownership and documentation habits.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure AKS / Kubernetes, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Monitor / OpenTelemetry, AWS
• IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, Helm, CI pipelines
• Databases & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Applications: TypeScript, Node.js, Hono, React
• Healthcare: Medplum / FHIR, HIPAA data standards

What "AI-Native Platform Engineering" Means for This Role

• Use agents to inspect configurations, draft runbooks, and automate checks.
• Build recurring security and compliance sweeps.
• Use AI to accelerate infrastructure review without blindly trusting it.
• Create workflows that surface risks before humans remember to check.
• Automate operational evidence gathering while keeping permissions and secrets tightly controlled.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare or HIPAA experience.
• Security background (cloud security, SOC, incident response).
• Compliance framework experience, especially HIPAA or SOC 2.
• Production experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes at scale.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 Days: Review current setup, agree on top platform/security gaps, demonstrate a backup restore and deployment rollback, and produce a prioritized improvement list.
• First 90 Days: Establish monitoring and alerting, close top security gaps, run the first version of the daily security/compliance agent, and organize compliance evidence.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on demonstrated ability and experience
• Fully remote work setup
• Equipment allowance
• Direct access to the founder and Head of Engineering
• Guidance from a senior security expert