Staff Cloud Engineer

Aetion; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading company in healthcare technology is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer in Barcelona. The role involves designing and managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance and security while utilizing advanced technologies like Kubernetes and AWS. Join a dynamic team dedicated to innovation and development in a collaborative environment.

Servicios

25 vacation days

Daily in-office lunch stipend

Sabbatical opportunity after five years

Commitment to professional development

Comprehensive private health coverage

Peer & company recognition programs

Monthly educational lunch & learns

Formación

• 7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or similar fields.
• 5+ years building Platform Engineering or SRE solutions.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience required.

Responsabilidades

• Design self-service platforms for product engineering teams.
• Architect and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Security engineering

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Herramientas

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Descripción del empleo

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.