DevOps Engineer

SAGA Diagnostics is a personalized cancer diagnostics and disease monitoring company focused on molecular genetic analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). The company’s mission is to improve precision cancer medicine, provide more accurate treatment monitoring, and improve patient survival using minimally-invasive liquid biopsy cancer testing services. SAGA’s proprietary tests can help patients, oncologists, and drug developers detect actionable mutations, stratify patient groups, and monitor treatment response, residual disease, and disease recurrence at unprecedented sensitivity and scale.

The DevOps Engineer plays a key role in building, maintaining, and improving infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines across SAGA Diagnostics' life sciences environment. This position works with application teams, IT, and QA to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant delivery of software and services. The DevOps Engineer ensures operational reliability while supporting validated systems and enhancing engineering efficiency. 

Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Automation: 
• Write and maintain Terraform/Ansible scripts for provisioning and configuration. 
• Standardize environments across dev, test, and prod.

CI/CD Pipeline Management: 
• Build, deploy, and monitor CI/CD pipelines to support agile delivery practices. 
• Integrate static analysis, testing, and validation steps into workflows. 

Compliance and Monitoring: 
• Ensure systems and workflows align with GxP, HIPAA, and ISO 13485 requirements. 
• Integrate monitoring tools and logs into a central observability stack. 

Collaboration: 
• Work closely with software, infrastructure, and QA teams to support development lifecycle. 
• Participate in cross-functional planning and release coordination. 

Reliability and Operations:
• Support DR and HA infrastructure patterns.
• Assist in patch automation, vulnerability remediation, and operational escalations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• 3–5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure automation roles.
• Experience in regulated environments, especially life sciences, including familiarity with HIPAA, GxP, and ISO 13485.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management (Ansible, Puppet).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Competence in scripting with Bash or Python for automation tasks.
• Familiarity with container orchestration and runtime environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong documentation habits and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, QA, and IT.

• Competitive Compensation and company wide benefits plan

• Opportunities for career advancement and professional development.

• A collaborative and innovative work environment dedicated to improving oncology outcomes.

SAGA Diagnostics is an equal opportunity employer, fully committed to achieving a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces and encourages applicants of every background. The company’s policy regarding equal employment opportunity means that all decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, benefits, wage and salary administration, scheduling, disciplinary action and termination will be made without unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. SAGA Diagnostics is a participant in the E-Verify program, learn more about the program and review our required disclosures here and here .