Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Technatomy Corporation is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for various agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs. They are seeking a Cloud Engineer to develop AWS-based microservices and event-driven platforms that enhance appointment scheduling and workflow functions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AWS cloud-native microservices supporting RPC-based appointment, scheduling, and workflow capabilities
- Develop and maintain Kafka/MSK event producers and consumers that support reliable, event-driven data flows
- Implement event-routing patterns, including topic segmentation, schema versioning, replay strategies, retry logic, and dead-letter handling
- Build and integrate secure WebSocket-based streaming services that provide real-time user interface updates without page refresh
- Develop APIs and integration components that support interoperability with external healthcare and VA enterprise systems
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform, Packer, or comparable tools
- Deploy, configure, and support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments
- Implement and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboard capabilities using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and AWS-native services
- Apply secure engineering practices, including IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and Zero Trust principles
- Troubleshoot application, integration, and platform issues and support performance tuning, resiliency testing, and incident resolution
- Produce technical documentation, configuration guidance, and operational runbooks for developed services
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, design reviews, code reviews, sprint planning, and cross-functional technical discussions
Skills
- 2–4 years of experience in cloud engineering, software development, platform engineering, or a related technical role
- Practical knowledge of AWS fundamentals and cloud-native application development in secure enterprise environments
- Experience developing APIs, microservices, or distributed applications using one or more modern programming languages
- Exposure to Kafka, AWS MSK, or another enterprise messaging platform and a working understanding of event-driven architecture
- Understanding of producer/consumer patterns, event schemas, retry processing, replay, and resilient integration design
- Familiarity with Docker, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD delivery practices
- Foundational knowledge of Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, or the demonstrated ability to learn them quickly
- Familiarity with application logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis in distributed environments
- Understanding of cloud security concepts, including IAM, secrets management, encryption, and least privilege
- Strong analytical, documentation, and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and operations teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- This position requires U.S. citizenship or Green card
- Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs, another Federal agency, or a regulated enterprise environment
- Experience with Appian or integration between cloud-native services and low-code workflow platforms
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, CloudWatch, or similar technologies
- Understanding of healthcare interoperability, appointment scheduling, or other mission-critical workflow systems
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