Specialist Application Engineer
Waystar, Inc

Job Info

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While our DevOps engineers are involved in multiple things throughout the Technology organization, primarily they are responsible for working with the Technology teams to design, build, and implement amazing environmental automation. Love thinking about infrastructure as code? Get jazzed about automation? Want to get deep in the weeds with the latest mix of on-premise and cloud automation technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Looker, load balancers, and firewalls? Want to help us as we move Waystar toward containerized deployments? Come join our DevOps team, where you will help in these areas, while troubleshooting and resolving technical issues on tools that help your fellow Engineers be more efficient.

What you'll be doing:

• Participation in systems design and architecture for ourinternal automation platform
  
• Performance analysis and tuning, specifically ina.NET/MSSQL environment
  
• Development and support of tools and APIs that enable automated deployments, load balancer configuration, and containerization
  

• Automation of systems management tasks
  
• Automation of system and application monitoring and alerting
  
• Operationalization ofnew technologies introduced into the environment
  
• Develops and maintains open and fluid communication with Management
  
• Develops and maintains a positive relationshipwith other team members
  

• Assists in the creation and/or approving of technical specifications
  
• Assists in identifying areas in the application that need to be refactored
  
• Works with the various departments and team members to design and/or implement various new enhancements to the existing applications.This includes, but is not limitedto, SQL table design, SQL stored procedure design, and process design in the designated programming language
  
• Tracks any changes required by such development using internal tools, and communicates to the QA Team any abnormalities required to push the changes from development through the various stages to production
  
• Identifies and informs theManager, Application Engineeringof areas of the applicationthat can be improved by refactoring, optimization, or other improved technology solutions
  

• Notifies theManager, Application Engineeringof any problems that negatively impact applications, and works to implement a solution
  
• Communicates and works with theManager, Application Engineeringto reassign any items that cannot be addressed in a timely fashion
  
• Provides estimates for project tasks using an internal project tool, and updates the estimates if they increase or decrease
  
• Provides support toWaystarengineers and product releases
  
• Additional duties as assigned
  

What we're looking for:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  

• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment & welcome change
  
• Highly self-motivatedteam player
  
• Ability to work both in team and solo environments
  
• Willing to share knowledge with others while being humble enough to admit what you don't know
  
• Experience building highly-scalable software solutionsusing C# /.Netand MS SQL
  

• Bachelorsdegree in related field or equivalent work experience
  
• Ability to demonstrate creative thinking, advanced problem-solving,and troubleshootingskills
  
• Eager to learn new technologiesand totake personal responsibility&ownership for technical projects
  

• N-Tierand SaaS development experience isa plus
  
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and Internet protocolsis a plus
  
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes/Docker/Rancher) isa plus
  

• Familiaritywithload balancers, firewalls,Windowsand Linuxservers, and/or SAN storageis a plus
  
• Experience with Azure DevOps is a plus
  

Waystarprovides cloud-based technology that simplifies and unifies healthcare payments.Together, our technology, data and client support streamline workflows and improve financials for our clients, so that they can focus on their patients. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic and fun.

Waystar products have won Best in KLAS® or Category Leader every year since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visitwaystar.comor follow@Waystaron Twitter.

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