Senior Cloud Engineer

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

To support our rapid growth, the Enterprise Software Cloud Engineering team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to elevate our production operations and observability. You’ll work with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Java, Python, Ruby, and databases like MongoDB, Postgres, Oracle.

In this role, you will primarily:

• Support and enhance our CI/CD pipelines and release processes for zero-downtime deployments.
• Lead infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Rafay, Opsera.
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments (AWS/GCP), ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
• Partner with development teams to implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions (e.g., New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).
• Improve operational excellence through cost optimization, reliability, and sustainable incident response.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define SLIs/SLOs and enhance system observability.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps best practices across the team.
• This role needs a 2 hour overlap with the US team in Pacific Hours. Candidates should be open to flexible work timings.

You enjoy an agile, fast paced and highly technical environment. You are a self-driven person, do not need to be micromanaged, can wear multiple hats and drive tasks and projects to the finish line. You are effective in communicating technical and non-technical information across team boundaries.

You are dedicated to engineering excellence yet pragmatic enough to balance quality principles, regulatory compliance and business needs. Your troubleshooting skills are excellent, and you enjoy a good daily challenge in supporting rapid growth and a diverse set of end user needs. You have the ability to maintain day to day support while running various key projects that move the business forward by automating and creating new tools that facilitate management of the environment.

In addition, you bring

8+ years of industry experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.

• Deep experience with public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), including networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
• Extensive experience managing on-premise systems, including VMware infrastructure, Linux environments, and shell scripting
• Strong hands-on knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Proficient in CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and version control (Git).
• Automation experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).

Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go. Strong Linux administration experience (RHEL, CentOS).

• Experience supporting and scaling production systems and participating in on-call rotations.
• Solid understanding of system monitoring, logging, and tracing.