Staff Cloud Engineer

WELCOME to Aetion! We are a global leader in science-driven technology using real-world evidence to provide innovative healthcare solutions. Our Discover and Substantiate applications, powered by the Aetion Evidence Platform, are used to evaluate the safety, effectiveness and value of medications, delivering better outcomes to patients, medical professionals, and clients. We’ve partnered with top biopharma companies and are backed by leading venture capital firms to help increase our medical research and expand our product line. Aetion is headquartered in the US and has expanded throughout Europe with a Research and Development Hub in Barcelona.

Aetion and Aetion’s leadership are recipients of several prestigious awards:

Parity.org’s 2024 List of Best Companies for Equal Advancement Opportunities
Digital Health New York’s 2024 New York Digital Health 100
Newsweek's World's Best Digital Health Companies of 2024

Come join us!

PERKS of being an A-Teamer:

25 vacation days
Daily in-office lunch stipend (and a fully stocked kitchen)
Sabbatical opportunity after five years of employment
Commitment to professional development opportunities
Employee-led initiatives including annual company-wide innovation day & DEI resource groups
Comprehensive private health coverage w/ out-of-network reimbursements options
Peer & company recognition programs
Monthly educational lunch & learns

DESCRIPTION:

As a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be a critical and senior member of Aetion's engineering organization, instrumental in writing the next chapter of our ability to innovate and operate with efficiency and maturity. This role focuses on building and evolving the platform that powers Aetion's analytical capabilities while leading engineering projects that mature our infrastructure, security, observability, and automation.You'll design developer platforms, manage cloud infrastructure, ensure security and compliance in regulated healthcare environments, and scale data platform infrastructure handling petabyte-scale healthcare datasets.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The duties of this job include, but are not limited to...

Design and implement self-service platforms that eliminate toil for product engineering teams
Develop platform APIs and CLIs that make complex infrastructure operations simple
Architect and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS tenants
Implement comprehensive observability solutions providing metrics that matter
Design disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for healthcare-critical workloads
Implement policy-as-code frameworks ensuring HIPAA and SOC2 compliance
Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning and governance
Scale big data processing infrastructure handling petabyte-scale healthcare datasets
Design and maintain security incident response systems and automated threat mitigation

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education & Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineer, Systems Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
5+ years building Platform Engineering or SRE solutions with strong knowledge of cloud architecture
5+ years of experience building and shipping software products

Technical Expertise

Expert-level Kubernetes experience with 5+ years containerized workloads
Production experience with AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM)
Infrastructure as Code expertise - 5+ years with Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or similar
Programming proficiency - 5+ years in Python, Java, or similar languages, plus Unix shell scripting
CI/CD platform design and implementation (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Concord)
Observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
Database experience with SQL databases, big data platforms, and supporting big data pipelines
Linux Systems - In-depth experience solving complex issues on Linux systems and/or within the JVM
Proven experience with security engineering, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and implementing comprehensive compliance programs
Understanding of healthcare/fintech regulatory requirements
Lean and agile experience working in small, fast-moving teams

Nice to have

Healthcare/fintech experience working in regulated environments
Other cloud provider experience (e.g. Azure, GCP)
Java application debugging, tracing, and profiling

Strong proficiency in written and verbal English communication is essential.Aetion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Aetion is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.

Life at Aetion

Aetion offers the world's most advanced and fastest growing real-world evidence platform, accelerating the development and impact of treatments. With its patented rapid-cycle analytics technology, the Aetion platform uses the everyday clinical and financial interactions of health care to unlock essential evidence about treatment effectiveness and value. Founded by Harvard Medical School faculty members and a pioneer in big data, Aetion helps biopharma and payers and, most importantly, patients thrive in the era of value-based care. Visit aetion.com and learn how Aetion, together with its biopharma and payer customers, is advancing the global adoption of real-world evidence for critical health care decisions.

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