AI-Native Platform Engineer - DevOps, Security & Compliance | Zenara Health

Overview

Own production platform operations, security, and HIPAA compliance foundations for a healthcare software company handling sensitive patient data. This is a hands-on, full-time platform ownership role, not a narrow DevOps or paperwork role.

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.
• Help free other team members from ad hoc platform and security work.

What you'll need

• 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.
• Ability to prove 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.
• Practical mindset: able to prioritize risks rather than create endless theoretical lists.

Nice to have

• Healthcare technology experience (preferred but not mandatory).
• Healthcare or HIPAA experience.
• Security background, such as cloud security, SOC, or incident response.
• Compliance framework experience, especially HIPAA or SOC 2.
• Azure and AKS production experience.
• Kubernetes at production scale.

Details

• Location: Remote, India.
• Employment type: Full-time, approximately 50 hours per week.
• Working hours: Live collaboration and meetings approximately 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST, overlapping US Pacific Time; attendance in that window is required.
• Production incidents and critical deployments may occasionally require availability outside normal collaboration windows.