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Vizient

Healthcare performance improvement and supply chain

Senior DevOps and Reliability Engineer

Full-Time
$102.4k - $179k+ Incentive eligible
Senior
Bachelor's
Chicago, IL, USA+1 moreMore locations: Irving, TX, USA
Remote
DevOps & InfrastructureSite Reliability Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
  • At least 7 years of software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience is required.
  • Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting Azure/AWS cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
  • Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security controls, secrets management, and infrastructure governance practices.
  • Experience implementing and supporting observability platforms, including monitoring, logging, dashboards, runbooks, and alerting solutions.
  • Experience with Dynatrace or comparable enterprise application performance monitoring and observability platforms.
  • Experience troubleshooting production systems and participating in incident management and operational support processes.
  • Experience developing automation solutions using scripting or programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, JFrog, or similar delivery and artifact-management tools.
  • Experience working within Agile software development environments and supporting multiple engineering teams simultaneously.
  • Experience with cloud-cost management, resource sizing, capacity planning, autoscaling, workload optimization, and FinOps.
  • Experience implementing AI-native software development or AI-enabled engineering operating models.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a shared engineering resource supporting multiple software development teams across the organization.
  • Partner with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Security, and Architecture teams to establish and maintain cloud infrastructure standards, operational practices, and platform capabilities.
  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code technologies, including Pulumi.
  • Build and maintain reusable infrastructure templates, deployment patterns, automation frameworks, and platform services that improve developer productivity and operational consistency.
  • Support AWS cloud environments, including networking, security, identity and access management, monitoring, and operational governance.
  • Provide operational support and troubleshooting for cloud environments, deployment pipelines, infrastructure components, and production services.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex infrastructure, deployment, and operational issues requiring elevated cloud permissions and platform expertise.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes to support efficient and reliable software delivery.
  • Configure and support observability solutions, including application performance monitoring, centralized logging, dashboards, alerting, and operational reporting.
  • Implement and maintain Dynatrace monitoring, dashboards, alerting configurations, and operational visibility standards across applications and services.
  • Participate in incident response activities, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Develop and maintain operational runbooks, support documentation, platform standards, and engineering best practices.
  • Identify and remediate technical debt, infrastructure risks, operational gaps, and recurring reliability issues.
  • Collaborate with Security teams to support vulnerability remediation, compliance initiatives, access governance, and secure cloud operations.
  • Assist engineering teams with production readiness reviews, deployment planning, infrastructure design, and operational maturity initiatives.
  • Promote Site Reliability Engineering practices, operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, AI-enabled, and operational technologies that improve platform reliability, engineering efficiency, and service quality.
  • Mentor software engineers on cloud technologies, observability, infrastructure automation, operational best practices, and deployment strategies.
  • Apply AI-assisted practices across the software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, code review, deployment, monitoring, incident response, remediation, and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, API-driven systems, and cloud-native application patterns.
  • Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, operational excellence frameworks, and service ownership practices.
  • Azure/AWS certifications, DevOps certifications, or equivalent industry certifications.

About the company

Vizient, Inc. helps healthcare providers improve performance and lower costs. It serves academic medical centers, health systems, community and rural hospitals, and ambulatory care groups by delivering knowledge, solutions, and expertise through members. The company’s main products are in supply chain management, clinical and operational performance improvement, and strategic consulting. It uses data analytics and industry insights to help members optimize operations, increase efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. Revenue comes from membership fees, consulting services, and performance improvement programs, and the company expands capabilities through acquisitions such as Intalere to better serve its member base.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$2B

Headquarters

Irving, Texas

Founded

1977

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What believers are saying

  • Empierus adds IT spend management just as 2026 IT inflation hits 5.66%.
  • Q3 2025 renewals included UNC Health, Duke-adjacent networks, and Hawaii Pacific Health.
  • Vizient's Winter 2026 outlook warns indirect spend inflation remains structurally elevated through 2027.

What critics are saying

  • Premier and HealthTrust attack Vizient's core GPO contracts as hospitals consolidate in 2026.
  • Endure's 2026 antitrust fight shows suppliers keep challenging Vizient's contracting power.
  • Hospitals can insource analytics and direct sourcing, shrinking Vizient's relevance and fees quickly.

What makes Vizient unique

  • Vizient serves more than two-thirds of U.S. acute care providers as member-owned infrastructure.
  • Its $156 billion contract portfolio creates unmatched purchasing leverage and pricing data.
  • Empierus, Kaufman Hall, and Syntellis deepen analytics, IT contracting, and advisory breadth.

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Benefits

  • Five weeks (25 days) of PTO
  • Nine paid company holidays & one floating holiday
  • Four weeks to work from anywhere in the U.S.
  • High-deductible health plans
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Health savings account with company contribution
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Headspace wellness app
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 5 percent
  • Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Short-term illness and long-term disability coverage
  • Tuition assistance program

Company News

Business Wire
Jun 15th, 2026
Vizient Acquires Empierus to Expand IT Spend Management and Cost Optimization Capabilities

The acquisition builds on Vizient’s continued investment in specialized expertise across indirect spend categories.

FinancialContent
Jun 11th, 2026
Vizient acquires Empierus to boost IT spend management for healthcare organisations

Vizient has acquired Empierus, a healthcare-focused advisory firm specialising in information technology contracting and cost optimisation. The acquisition strengthens Vizient's capabilities in managing indirect spend categories as healthcare organisations face mounting financial pressures, particularly in technology-related areas. With healthcare organisations spending over $55 billion annually on IT across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and digital transformation, the acquisition aims to help clients bring more technology spend under contract and reduce avoidable costs. Empierus delivered over $36 million in savings for Vizient clients in 2025 through an established partnership. Empierus employees will join Vizient's team of over 250 experts across indirect spend and purchased services categories. Existing client relationships and contracts will remain unchanged.

Associated Press
Apr 20th, 2026
Vizient unveils integrated supply chain platform to strengthen healthcare purchasing governance and performance

Vizient is showcasing integrated supply chain capabilities at the Spring IDN Summit in Orlando, designed to help health systems strengthen trust across purchasing, analytics and strategic partnerships. The capabilities include Procure-to-Pay, the only ISO 9001 certified healthcare solution managing the full purchasing process from order through payment; Procedural Analytics, which links pricing and patient data to identify variation and connect supply chain decisions to patient outcomes; and the Vizient Partnership Program, packaging analytics, contracting, purchasing and advisory services to improve enterprise non-labour spend. The healthcare performance improvement company serves over two-thirds of the nation's acute care providers. Its contract portfolio represents $156 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Business Wire
Jun 26th, 2024
Vizient to Acquire Kaufman Hall, Expanding Advisory Expertise for Healthcare Industry

Vizient announced that it has exercised its option to acquire the remaining interest in Kaufman Hall, a strategic advisor to the healthcare industry.

Business Wire
Oct 31st, 2023
Vizient Announces Acquisition of PrefTech OR, a Next-generation Physician Preference Card Management Technology

Vizient announces it has acquired PrefTech OR's next-generation, cloud-based preference card management software for healthcare providers.