Quest Diagnostics
Posted 1w ago

Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

Quest Diagnostics
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
RemoteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • managing infrastructure
  • managing releases
  • monitoring services
Requirements
  • Requires 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering
  • AWS cloud experience
  • Cybersecurity knowledge, CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Scripting, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Technical tools mentioned
Amazon Web Services (AWS)AWS LambdaAmazon DynamoDBAmazon API GatewayAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Amazon CognitoAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Amazon S3Amazon EventBridgeOAuth 2.0JSON Web Token (JWT)PKCEmutual TLSGitHub ActionsAWS CodePipelineArgo CDSASTDASTWAFAmazon CloudWatchAWS X-RayDatadogGrafanaBashPythonNode.jsSplunkMicrosoft SentinelCloudWatch Logs InsightsOWASPCIS BenchmarksNIST 800-53SOC 2

Job description

  • Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes 
  • Release Management: Take releases, own process and relevant improvements, and drive to success; 
  • Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time 

Responsibilities

Application Operations

  • Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:
    • Lambdas
    • DynamoDB
    • API Gateway
    • SNS
    • SQS
    • SES
    • Cognito
    • IAM
    • S3
    • EventBridge

 

Cybersecurity 

  • Distill findings from security team and address any actions
  • Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
  • Create actionable list of items
  • Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
  • Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans

 

Reporting & Observability

  • Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
  • Configuration of notification mechanisms

Qualifications

Required Work Experience: 

  • 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)

 

Knowledge: 

  • Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
  • Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
  • Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls

 

Skills: 

  • Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
  • Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
  • Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
  • Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
  • Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

 

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: 

  • HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
  • AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
  • Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
  • FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture

 

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

About Company

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About Quest Diagnostics

Provides clinical laboratory diagnostic testing and health information services.