Platform Engineer

Theradex Oncology; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance (STD/LTD)

Company matched 401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Generous vacation/sick plans

Job summary

Theradex Oncology in Princeton, NJ is looking for a highly motivated Platform Engineer. This role emphasizes building and improving cloud infrastructure in AWS, focusing on DevOps tasks initially while growing into broader platform engineering responsibilities.

The position offers a salary range of $140,000 - $165,000 and comprehensive benefits including medical coverage, 401(k), and flexible work schedules. Candidates must have AWS certifications and relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of work experience as a DevOps engineer or in similar roles required.
• AWS DevOps Engineer Associate or similar certification is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Lead upfront technical alignment by conducting architecture and deployment readiness reviews.
• Design platform solutions ensuring operability and supportability.
• Provide clear communication between application development and infrastructure teams.
• Identify and address technical and security risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Automate application deployment workflows targeting AWS services.

Skills

AWS – EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch

Docker or similar

Terraform or similar

GitHub and GitHub Actions or similar

Programming (preferably Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

AWS DevOps Engineer Associate or AWS DevOps Solutions Architect Associate required

Tools

AWS services

Terraform

Datadog or similar tools

Job description

Who We Are

Theradex Oncology is a full‑service CRO specializing in oncology. The company manages global oncology trials and programs. The company was founded in 1982 working with the National Cancer Institute, which led to its expansion to working with industry sponsors developing cancer therapeutics. As a service‑based company we support both domestic and international sponsors in the conduct of both early and late phase trials.

What You'll Do

Platform Engineer - AWS Certified Professional - Princeton, NJ (Hybrid) - Will consider regionally remote candidates

We're looking for a highly motivated Platform Engineer to help us build and improve our cloud infrastructure in AWS. Initially this role will focus highly on DevOps related tasks. As the team matures, the role will grow to encompass broader platform engineering responsibilities, like IDPs and self‑service features for developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead upfront technical alignment by conducting architecture and deployment readiness reviews with application teams to ensure requirements, dependencies, and assumptions are clearly understood before implementation and release.
• Design platform solutions with operability and supportability as first‑class concerns, including clear success criteria, failure handling, rollback strategies, and defined ownership.
• Act as a primary technical communication bridge between application development and infrastructure teams, providing clear, timely updates and ensuring shared understanding including security and compliance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Proactively identify and surface technical and security risks early in the delivery lifecycle and work with application teams to address them prior to deployment rather than reactively post‑release.
• Troubleshoot technical problems, support incident management and provide root cause analysis.
• Work closely with IT, Business and Vendor teams.
• Assist in modernizing on‑prem legacy applications in AWS.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for application builds, testing, and deployment.
• Automate application deployment workflows targeting AWS services, with an emphasis on reliability and repeatability.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using AWS ECS Fargate.
• Provision, configure and maintain/monitor AWS resources.
• Write and maintain Terraform code to manage AWS infrastructure in a repeatable, version‑controlled manner.
• Perform code reviews.
• Contribute to policies, standards, and guidelines for Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Assist with compliance‑related tasks such as audit logging, vulnerability scanning and patch management.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Develop and maintain platform and system documentation.

What You Need

Education & Certification

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• AWS DevOps Engineer Associate or AWS DevOps Solutions Architect Associate required

Prior Experience

• A minimum of 4 years of work experience as a DevOps engineer or in similar roles required

Skills and Competencies

• AWS – EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Docker or similar
• Terraform or similar
• GitHub and GitHub Actions or similar
• Programming (preferably Python)

Additional Requirements

• Willing to work outside of standard business hours and weekends (when required)

What We Offer

At Theradex we offer a supportive culture that puts people first. Our employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance, disability insurance (STD/LTD), company matched 401(k), very competitive tuition reimbursement, generous vacation/sick plans, flexible work schedules, employee discounts and other company provided benefits. The annual base salary for this position ranges from $140,000 - $165,000. The actual salary offer will be based on a number of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and competencies for the role.

This position is not eligible for relocation or company provided sponsorship.

Theradex is an Equal Opportunity Employer.