Principal, Cloud Engineer

ModMed; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ModMed is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define the architectural vision for our global AWS cloud, standardize observability, and elevate developer velocity across multiple regions. You will bridge engineering, product, and business goals while driving resilience and secure, scalable infrastructure to support world-class medical software.

You will champion container orchestration, CI/CD modernization, and automated security controls, partnering with SecOps to meet HIPAA and SOC

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in cloud engineering, SRE, or DevOps
• 13–15+ years in SRE/DevOps leadership and cloud architecture
• Deep AWS expertise (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM) and advanced networking
• Experience with production-scale Kubernetes, telemetry, and IaC platforms
• Strong programming in Python, Go, or Bash; ability to drive automation
• Excellent communication for executive alignment and strategic planning
• Experience with security, HIPAA/SOC 2 compliance is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define long-term architectural vision for global AWS cloud environment.
• Architect observability with Datadog and OpenTelemetry for reliability.
• Improve CI/CD and internal developer platform to accelerate release velocity.
• Lead Kubernetes strategy for multi-region deployments and security.
• Embed security guardrails and IaC controls for compliance.
• Perform root-cause analyses and drive resilience improvements.

Skills

Cloud engineering

SRE

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Python

Go

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Engineering or MCA (preferred)

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

About ModMed

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

Cultural Overview

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes.

Accolades

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work 2025
• Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year” 2025
• Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties
• Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We’re Growing Fast

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started. Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary

• Our Mission: To place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform.
• Our Vision: A world where the software ModMed builds increases medical-practice success and improves patient outcomes.
• Core Values: Create customer delight | Save time | Innovate boldly, then make things happen | Align passion with purpose | Think big | Have fun | Do good.

The Role

Technical Visionary for Reliability and Developer Velocity

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at ModMed, you are a primary architect of our technical future. You don't just solve problems; you anticipate the needs of a global healthcare platform years in advance. You will think big to define the standards for reliability, scalability, developer velocity, and security that allow our doctors to provide world-class care without interruption. This is a high-impact technical leadership role where you will innovate boldly, then make things happen, acting as a vital bridge between engineering, product, and business goals. By aligning passion with purpose, you will build a resilient infrastructure that serves as the backbone for modern medicine and consistently creates customer delight.

Primary Responsibilities

• Architectural Strategy & Technical Governance: Define and execute the long-term architectural vision for our global AWS cloud ecosystem. Design high-performance, fault-tolerant, and cost-optimized multi-region topologies capable of scaling elastically to meet massive transaction volumes while enforcing rigorous cloud hygiene (Save time).
• Systemic Observability Ecosystems: Institutionalize “Observability as a Culture” across the enterprise. Architect unified, global telemetry standards using Datadog and OpenTelemetry, transforming raw logs, metrics, and distributed traces into actionable, predictive insights that elevate system reliability across all product engineering groups.
• Developer Platform Evolution & CI/CD Engineering: Revolutionize the corporate CI/CD philosophy and internal developer platform (IDP) strategy. Engineer systemic, highly automated pipeline improvements using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, ACK, CUE, and others to eliminate developer friction, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate the release velocity of hundreds of engineers.
• Enterprise Kubernetes Stewardship: Serve as the ultimate authority on container orchestration, microservices deployment, and service mesh architectures. Drive high-level initiatives to maximize Kubernetes cluster efficiency, auto-scaling dynamics, secure multi-tenancy, and immutable deployment patterns across the entire organization.
• Proactive Infrastructure Security & Compliance: Partner closely with SecOps to architect a zero-trust infrastructure fortress. Embed automated security guardrails and compliance controls into core Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, ensuring seamless, continuous adherence to strict healthcare regulatory standards, including HIPAA and SOC 2 (Do good).
• Enterprise Triage & Resilience Engineering: Act as the premier technical escalation authority for critical, cross-system infrastructure failures. Spearhead complex, multi-layered root-cause analysis, lead deep-dive post-mortems, and champion engineering patterns that turn production incidents into systemic resilience upgrades.

Technical Leadership & Culture Multiplication

• Engineering Force Multiplier: Act as a strategic force multiplier across the engineering ecosystem. Direct high-impact cross-functional initiatives, define and publish enterprise-wide best practices, influence organizational technology roadmaps, and mentor senior and staff-level engineers to foster an inclusive, collaborative culture of technical excellence (Have fun. Do good.).

Role Requirements & Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline with an IT focus.
• Experience: 8+ years of dedicated experience in cloud engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Engineering Tenure: 13-15+ years of distinguished experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Architecture, or DevOps Platform Engineering, with a definitive track record of scaling high-concurrency, enterprise cloud environments.
• AWS Architectural Authority: Deep, authoritative mastery of the AWS ecosystem (including EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and advanced networking features) with proven experience executing massive scalability strategies and sophisticated cloud spend optimization structures.
• Advanced Platform Stack: Professional‑grade expertise architecting and managing production-scale Kubernetes environments, comprehensive Datadog telemetry architectures, and modular Infrastructure-as-Code platforms utilizing Terraform or Terragrunt at scale.
• Strategic Engineering & Tooling: Expert-level software engineering capability in Python, Go, or Bash to construct intelligent automation engines, internal CLI tools, and infrastructure platforms that systematically eliminate operational toil.
• Executive-Level Influence: Exceptional communication and advisory skills, with a proven ability to translate complex, low-level technical trade-offs into clear strategic visions for executive leadership while remaining capable of conducting a rigorous, line-by-line code and architecture review.
• Mission Dedication: A strong desire to apply elite technical expertise toward modernizing healthcare infrastructure, protecting patient data integrity, and solving complex societal-scale challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's in Engineering or MCA.
• Industry Credentials: Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or relevant advanced Specialty certifications (Security, Advanced Networking).
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Direct experience managing high-throughput, event-driven streaming architectures (e.g., Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis) or high-scale data warehouse solutions (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Snowflake).
• Community & Thought Leadership: A history of contributing to foundational open-source cloud-native projects, authoring technical white papers, or speaking at premier industry tech conferences (e.g., AWS re:Invent, KubeCon).

ModMed Core Behavioral Competencies

• Agility: Embraces change as a growth opportunity; learns from successes and failures and adapts to new challenges.
• Results Driven: Consistently achieves quality results, overcomes