Remote Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Platform Architect

Unikon IT, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unikon IT, Inc. seeks a Senior Full Stack & Cloud Platform Engineer to help build NextBrain’s cloud-hosted platform. You will design scalable cloud-native applications, establish AWS architecture, and implement security, observability, and CI/CD patterns for enterprise-scale delivery.

The role spans front-end, back-end, APIs and DevOps, with strong focus on Terraform, AWS services, and modern frameworks. Remote, long-term engagement offering deep AWS exposure and platform ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing production applications using Python and/or modern backend technologies.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular or equivalent.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization and enterprise identity management.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain full-stack capabilities for the NextBrain cloud platform.
• Define and evolve the AWS architecture supporting NextBrain applications and services.
• Develop scalable APIs and microservices supporting NextBrain tools, agents, analytics applications and data services.
• Build reusable patterns that simplify onboarding of new applications and analytical tools into NextBrain.
• Implement cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Implement authentication and authorization patterns, including enterprise SSO, IAM, RBAC and application-level access controls.
• Design secure mechanisms for managing application secrets, credentials, configuration and environment variables.
• Establish application observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Improve application reliability, scalability, performance and resilience.
• Partner with Data Engineering and AI/ML team members to operationalize data and AI services.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting and production support.
• Establish technical standards and engineering best practices for the NextBrain cloud platform.

Skills

Python

React

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Unikon IT, Inc. seeks a Senior Full Stack & Cloud Platform Engineer to help build NextBrain’s cloud-hosted platform. You will design scalable cloud-native applications, establish AWS architecture, and implement security, observability, and CI/CD patterns for enterprise-scale delivery.

The role spans front-end, back-end, APIs and DevOps, with strong focus on Terraform, AWS services, and modern frameworks. Remote, long-term engagement offering deep AWS exposure and platform ownership.