Site Reliability Engineer

About Avalon Healthcare Solutions:

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the nation’s leader in diagnostic intelligence, uniquely focused on transforming the role of diagnostic testing across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proprietary Diagnostic Insights Platform delivers evidence-based policies, curated lab networks, and real-time analytics that simplify complex diagnostics, accelerate innovation adoption, and optimize diagnostic investments.

Supporting over 30 health plans and 90+ million members nationwide, Avalon partners with payers and providers to ensure diagnostic testing is performed appropriately, efficiently, and at the right time. Our flexible solutions span routine and genetic testing management, automated adherence, and end-to-end diagnostics support—driving measurable value, reduced waste, and improved clinical outcomes.

With unmatched scientific rigor, deep clinical expertise, and a performance-based model, Avalon is redefining how diagnostics power personalized care and healthcare value.
Learn more at www.avalonhcs.com.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

Avalon Healthcare Solutions, and its affiliates, is an equal opportunity employer. This position description is subject to change at any time. As determined by the company based upon business needs, an employee in this position may be required to perform duties and take responsibility for work other than as described in this document.

About the Site Reliability Engineer Position:

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for helping secure, automate, and scale our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you’ll manage Palo Alto firewalls, engineer secure network environments in AWS, and apply SRE practices to ensure reliability, visibility, and automation across the platform.

This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel will be required to Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.

Site Reliability Engineer – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Configure/manage networks, firewalls, policies, NAT, VPN
• Engineer secure AWS architectures (VPCs, routing, Transit Gateway, WAF, API Gateways).
• Implement and govern AWS Security Groups and access policies.
• Automate infrastructure through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop dashboards/alerting in Grafana, OpenSearch, CloudWatch.
• Troubleshoot security/network incidents; lead root cause and remediation.
• Manage AWS services such as Opensearch, ElastiCache, Aurora and EC2/ECS/fargate

Site Reliability Engineer – Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years in network security, cloud engineering, or SRE.
• Bachelor Degree in IT or related field
• Strong experience with Palo Alto firewalls & AWS network security.
• Hands-on Terraform knowledge; ability to build scalable modules.
• Proficiency with observability tools (Grafana, OpenSearch).
• Proficiency with AWS container runtime environments ECS, fargate and lambda.
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting across cloud + network stacks.

Site Reliability Engineer – Preferred Certifications:

• Palo Alto PCNSE or PCNSA
• AWS Security
• Solutions Architect
• Advanced Networking