Sr Eng , Forward Deployed Engineer, RD Soft Eng
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
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Job summary
Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Engineer, Platform Engineering to design, build, automate, secure, and operate cloud-based engineering platforms that enable fast, reliable, and compliant digital product delivery across enterprise technology environments.
The role requires hands-on expertise in platform engineering, cloud platforms, automation, Kubernetes, infrastructure provisioning, and security practices within regulated enterprise settings.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field; Master's preferred.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
- Proficiency with Azure, AWS or GCP cloud platforms and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure automated delivery.
- Automate build, test, deployment, configuration, release, and provisioning processes.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into sprint delivery.
- Continuously improve pipeline reliability, lead time, and deployment frequency.
- Provision, configure, and operate cloud infrastructure using IaC and templates.
- Support containerized workloads, Kubernetes platforms, and secret management.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and service health dashboards.
- Embed security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and compliance into delivery workflows.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices across platform engineering.
Skills
Education
Job description
At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity.
Learn more at jnj.com.
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
R&D Product Development
R&D Software/Systems Engineering
Scientific/Technology
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity.
Platform Engineering, Cloud Platforms, Developer Experience, Infrastructure Automation & Reliability
Hyderabad, India (Hybrid)
Manager / Director, Platform Engineering / ICC
Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Engineer, Platform Engineering to design, build, automate, secure, and operate cloud-based engineering platforms that enable fast, reliable, and compliant digital product delivery across enterprise technology environments.
This role will serve as a senior hands‑on engineering contributor responsible for platform capabilities, infrastructure as code, cloud infrastructure operations, container platforms, developer self‑service, observability, release enablement, and production reliability. The successful candidate will work closely with software engineering, cybersecurity, quality, architecture, and operations teams to improve developer experience, platform resilience, operational controls, and delivery speed.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in platform engineering, cloud platforms, automation, Kubernetes, infrastructure provisioning, developer tooling, monitoring, incident response, secure engineering practices, and production support within regulated enterprise environments.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support secure, repeatable and automated application delivery across development, test, validation, and production environments.
- Automate build, test, deployment, configuration, release, rollback, and environment provisioning processes to reduce manual effort and delivery risk.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into sprint delivery, release planning, branching strategies, and deployment workflows.
- Continuously improve pipeline reliability, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery practices.
- Provision, configure, and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code, reusable templates, and automated governance controls.
- Support containerized workloads, Kubernetes platforms, service configuration, secrets management, networking, storage and runtime reliability.
- Implement scalable cloud patterns for application hosting, integration, data services, identity, backup, disaster recovery, and environment lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to standardize cloud operating models, guardrails, reusable modules and engineering accelerators.
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and service health indicators to improve visibility across applications and infrastructure.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, release validation, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
- Improve availability, performance, scalability, resiliency, backup, recovery, and service continuity across production platforms.
- Define and track operational KPIs such as deployment success rate, incident trends, mean time to recovery, environment stability and system performance.
- Embed security scanning, dependency checks, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, policy enforcement and compliance evidence into automated delivery workflows.
- Partner with cybersecurity, privacy, quality and architecture teams to implement secure software development lifecycle and cloud security practices.
- Maintain audit-ready deployment records, configuration baselines, access controls, change evidence release approvals and validation artifacts where required.
- Drive continuous improvement across automation quality, platform reliability, operational risk, technical debt and cloud cost optimization.
- Work closely with software engineers, QA engineers, product teams, cybersecurity, platform teams and operations teams to improve end-to-end software delivery.
- Create reusable templates, documentation, playbooks, runbooks and self‑service capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational consistency.
- Troubleshoot complex build, deployment, infrastructure, environment, access, networking and performance issues across cloud and enterprise systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote disciplined engineering practices across platform automation, scripting, release management, observability and production support.
- Ensure infrastructure, pipelines, deployments and operational processes comply with applicable enterprise security, privacy, quality accessibility and regulatory requirements.
- Support GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), GDPR, HIPAA, change management and internal J&J technology standards where applicable.
- Maintain traceability for releases, configuration changes, infrastructure updates, deployment approvals, incident records and operational controls.
- Promote secure, reliable and responsible engineering practices across cloud, application, data and AI-enabled technology platforms.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Master's Degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, release engineering, infrastructure automation or software delivery enablement.
- Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated deployments and environment provisioning across enterprise applications.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP, including compute, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, security and managed services.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, scripting, observability platforms, incident management and production support.
- Experience with secure platform engineering practices, automated security scans, vulnerability remediation, access control audit evidence and regulated delivery practices.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences or other regulated industries preferred.
- Backstage / Port / Cortex developer portals
- Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / Jenkins
- Service catalog, software templates, golden paths
- Build and release pipelines
- Release, rollback, and change automation
- Azure / AWS / GCP cloud platforms
- Terraform / OpenTofu / Pulumi / Crossplane
- Bicep / ARM / CloudFormation
- Cloud networking, identity, storage compute
- Configuration, backup, recovery, environment lifecycle
- Docker and container runtime concepts
- Kubernetes / AKS / EKS / GKE
- Helm / Kustomize / GitOps
- Argo CD / Flux continuous delivery
- API gateways service mesh platform operations
- Prometheus / Grafana / ELK / Splunk
- Open Telemetry monitoring, logging, tracing
- Vault / cloud secrets management
- OPA / Kyverno policy-as-code
- Incident problem and change management
- Experience supporting Clinical Development, R&D, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, enterprise data platforms or internal productivity applications in a regulated environment.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, container registries, artifact repositories and observability tooling.
- Experience implementing secure platform controls, policy-as‑code, vulnerability management, secrets management cloud security posture and compliance automation.
- Relevant certifications in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, platform engineering, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering or cloud architecture.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical risks, operational trade-offs, deployment options and reliability improvements to diverse stakeholders.
- Individual contributor role may provide technical guidance to engineers, vendors and product squads on platform engineering practices
Platform Engineering / Cloud Platforms / Clinical IT / ICC Hyderabad
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmitive Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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Agility Jumps, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Product Design, Report Writing, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Scripting Languages, Software Architectures, Software Development Management, Software Engineering Practices, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), System Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Technologically Savvy
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