Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is a mission-driven technology company that creates transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for clients and partners. The company is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms supporting healthcare applications and services. The role focuses on platform engineering, site reliability, infrastructure automation, identity governance, compliance, observability, and CI/CD automation.
Responsibilities
- Cloud Platform Engineering Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud platforms for healthcare applications
- Build reusable platform services and self-service infrastructure capabilities
- Implement AWS best practices for scalability, reliability, disaster recovery, and security
- Support multi-account AWS environments with centralized governance and controls
- Optimize cloud infrastructure performance and cost utilization
- Establish and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets
- Improve system reliability, availability, and operational efficiency through automation
- Develop runbooks and remediation automation to minimize operational toil. Perform capacity planning, resiliency testing, and disaster recovery exercises
- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Create reusable infrastructure modules and platform templates
- Implement GitOps and automation-driven infrastructure provisioning strategies
- Design and manage AWS IAM policies, roles, permission boundaries, and trust relationships. Implement least-privilege access controls and role-based access management
- Manage AWS Identity Center (SSO), federated authentication, SAML, and OIDC integrations
- Support healthcare regulatory compliance through secure identity governance and compliance audits
- Manage AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and SSM Agent across enterprise environments
- Configure and maintain CloudWatch Agents for infrastructure observability
- Automate patching, software deployment, inventory management and configuration compliance
- Implement operational automation using SSM Automation Documents and Runbooks
- Implement and manage AWS CloudTrail for centralized logging and audit tracking
- Configure AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Audit Manager for governance and compliance monitoring
- Maintain audit trails supporting HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and healthcare compliance requirements
- Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to address audit findings and remediation activities
- Ensure encryption, data protection, and secure access controls for Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Implement enterprise monitoring and observability solutions
- Develop dashboards, s, and operational metrics
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and security events
- Utilize CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK Stack
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment
- Improve deployment reliability and reduce manual intervention through automation
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or SRE environments
- Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code implementation
- Strong experience with IAM governance and cloud security controls
- Hands-on experience with AWS Systems Manager (SSM), CloudWatch Agents, and operational automation
- Experience implementing AWS CloudTrail and audit logging solutions
- Experience supporting regulated healthcare applications handling PHI/PII data
- Strong understanding of healthcare security, compliance, and governance requirements
- Experience with Healthcare Provider, Payer, EMR/EHR, Clinical, or Health Insurance platforms
- Experience supporting HIPAA/HITECH-compliant cloud environments
- Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, and healthcare interoperability frameworks
- Exposure to HITRUST-certified environments
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year
- Full-time, regular employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Paid bereavement leave and jury duty
- Eligibility to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time, regular employees and their dependents residing in the US
- Company-paid basic life insurance for full-time, regular employees
- Company-paid accidental death and disability insurance for full-time, regular employees
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability benefits for full-time, regular employees
- Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits
- Participation in a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Participation in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines
- Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- Full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time temporary employees and their dependents residing in the US
- Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- Part-time employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws
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