Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Theradex Oncology is a full-service oncology contract research organization supporting domestic and international sponsors in clinical trials and cancer therapeutic development. The Platform Engineer will build and improve AWS cloud infrastructure, initially focusing on DevOps, CI/CD, automation, containerized applications, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security, and compliance while expanding platform engineering capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead upfront technical alignment by conducting architecture and deployment readiness reviews with application teams to ensure requirements, dependencies, and assumptions are clearly understood before implementation and release
- Design platform solutions with operability and supportability as first‑class concerns, including clear success criteria, failure handling, rollback strategies, and defined ownership
- Act as a primary technical communication bridge between application development and infrastructure teams, providing clear, timely updates and ensuring shared understanding including security and compliance throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Proactively identify and surface technical and security risks early in the delivery lifecycle and work with application teams to address them prior to deployment rather than reactively post‑release
- Troubleshoot technical problems, support incident management and provide root cause analysis
- Work closely with IT, Business and Vendor teams
- Assist in modernizing on-prem legacy applications in AWS
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for application builds, testing, and deployment
- Automate application deployment workflows targeting AWS services, with an emphasis on reliability and repeatability
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using AWS ECS Fargate
- Provision, configure and maintain/monitor AWS resources
- Write and maintain Terraform code to manage AWS infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner
- Perform code reviews
- Contribute to policies, standards, and guidelines for Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices
- Apply security best practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Assist with compliance-related tasks such as audit logging, vulnerability scanning and patch management
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar tools
- Develop and maintain platform and system documentation
Skills
- * Active AWS DevOps Engineer Associate or AWS DevOps Solutions Architect Associate Certification required
- * A minimum of 4 years of work experience as a DevOps engineer or in similar roles required
- * AWS – EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch
- * Docker or similar
- * Terraform or similar
- * GitHub and GitHub Actions or similar
- * Programming (preferably Python)
- * Willing to work outside of standard business hours and weekends (when required)
- This position is not eligible for relocation or company provided sponsorship
- * Bachelor's degree preferred
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance (STD/LTD)
- Company matched 401(k)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vacation and sick plans
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee discounts
- Other company provided benefits
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