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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with Healthcare | Remote | W2 Only

Chicago, IL

We are seeking a proactive and technically skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support production operations of a mission-critical healthcare ecosystem. This role ensures reliability, availability, and operational excellence of healthcare applications, scheduled workloads, and third-party integrations.

The ideal candidate will handle production incident management, Tidal support, troubleshooting healthcare applications, automation scripting, minor enhancements, and inbound/outbound data exchange with vendors. The engineer will collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, database, and business teams to ensure uninterrupted healthcare services.

Key Responsibilities

Production Support

  • Provide production support for healthcare applications

  • Monitor environments and respond to incidents per SLA

  • Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions

  • Participate in on-call rotations and major incident management

  • Ensure high availability and operational stability

Tidal & Batch Processing

  • Monitor scheduled Tidal jobs/workflows

  • Investigate and resolve job failures

  • Restart, rerun, or modify executions per SOPs

  • Analyze dependencies and downstream impacts

  • Coordinate with application/infrastructure teams

  • Recommend automation and self-healing improvements

  • Support batch processing applications

Application & Incident Management

  • ServiceNow incident triage

  • Splunk and Dynatrace analysis

  • Troubleshoot GuidingCare, clinical apps, care management platforms, and integrations

  • Perform configuration validation, performance analysis, and functional verification

Automation & Enhancements

  • Maintain/update scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL)

  • Develop automation to reduce manual work

  • Improve monitoring and alerting

  • Support CI/CD operational automation

  • Perform minor code changes, bug fixes, and configuration updates

  • Participate in deployments and validate production fixes

File Transfer & Integrations

  • Monitor file transfers and troubleshoot failures

  • Validate file integrity

  • Manage SFTP/FTPS connections

  • Coordinate with third-party vendors

  • Ensure timely healthcare data delivery

  • Support HIPAA-compliant data exchange

Monitoring & Reliability

  • Monitor applications using enterprise tools

  • Investigate alerts proactively

  • Perform health checks

  • Drive continuous reliability improvements

  • Identify recurring issues and recommend permanent fixes

Documentation

  • Maintain SOPs and knowledge articles

  • Document RCA findings and operational procedures

Required Technical Skills

  • Healthcare application support experience

  • Knowledge of healthcare workflows and HIPAA compliance

  • Healthcare integrations experience

  • Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

  • Job scheduling, batch processing, workflow automation

  • Linux & Windows Server

  • Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash/Shell

  • Azure Cloud (preferred)

  • Storage & networking fundamentals

Monitoring Tools (any):

  • Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure Monitor, App Insights

Databases:

  • SQL Server, Oracle

  • Basic query optimization, stored procedures

File Transfer:

  • SFTP, FTPS, file encryption, secure integrations

Version Control:

  • Git / Azure DevOps / GitHub

Preferred Skills

  • ServiceNow

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • REST API troubleshooting

  • Healthcare payer/provider applications

  • AIOps / Agentic AI familiarity

Soft Skills

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

  • Excellent incident management

  • Ability to work under pressure

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management

  • Customer-focused mindset

  • Continuous improvement attitude

  • Strong documentation skills

  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Experience

  • Experience supporting mission-critical healthcare applications (preferred)

  • Agentic AI-driven production operations

  • Auto-remediation and self-healing solutions

  • Azure Logic Apps, Functions, Automation Accounts

  • Healthcare EDI transactions & integrations

  • Experience with GuidingCare or similar platforms