Staff Cloud Development Engineer-1

Modernizing Medicine, Inc; Boca Raton (FL); In loco; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

LRP Media Group in Boca Raton, FL is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer to lead the scalability and reliability of their AWS cloud infrastructure. This position involves mentoring junior team members, collaborating on secure cloud infrastructure, and implementing monitoring solutions. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, a minimum of 8 years in Cloud Engineering, and extensive AWS experience. The role requires a presence at the Boca Raton office three days a week, fostering teamwork and technical leadership.

Competenze

• Minimum 8 years in Cloud Engineering or similar role.
• Proven track record in large-scale public cloud environments.
• Experience managing AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

Mansioni

• Lead efforts to ensure scalability and reliability of AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate on secure and standardized cloud infrastructure.
• Implement monitoring solutions using observability tools.
• Mentor junior and senior team members.

Conoscenze

AWS services management

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Apache Kafka

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Strumenti

DataDog

Terraform

Helm

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description Summary

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead efforts to ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our AWS cloud infrastructure. This role is designed for high‑level individual contributors who will lead one of three specialized domains: Data Streaming (Kafka), Database Architecture, or AWS Applications Development. Your technical leadership is needed to ensure ModMed’s cloud foundation is secure and scalable.

This position requires a consistent presence in our Boca Raton, FL office (3 days/week) to foster collaboration and mentorship.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with staff/architect group to produce standardized, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, guardrails and best practices for development teams to deploy safely and quickly to production, with an emphasis on developer self‑service.

• Lead technical strategy in the following areas:

  • Streaming: Architect, build and operate high‑throughput event‑driven systems using technologies like Apache Kafka, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform.

  • Database: Architect, build and operate high‑throughput event‑driven systems using technologies like AWS Aurora, RDS, and NoSQL, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform; lead complex migrations, sharding strategies, and performance tuning.

  • AWS application development: Serve as the cloud lead for a subset of applications to guide their evolution toward efficient and standardized consumption of public cloud services, especially as it pertains to migration toward microservices running on Kubernetes.

• Implement and refine monitoring solutions using observability tools DataDog, ensuring proactive issue identification and efficient resource utilization.

• Lead the development of reusable IaC modules using tools like Terraform or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.

• Ensure strict adherence to AWS security standards and data protection regulations (SOC2/HIPAA) while balancing cost implications.

• Mentor junior and senior team members, fostering a culture where every engineer is a technical leader in their area of expertise.

• Engage in face‑to‑face architectural white‑boarding and cross‑functional planning from our Boca Raton headquarters.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

• Minimum 8 years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, software engineering, or a similar role, with a proven track record of solving complex problems in large‑scale public cloud environments (AWS preferred).

• Extensive experience managing AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53) or similar in another cloud platform.

• Deep proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and other cloud‑native technologies.

• Proficiency in a high‑level language (Python, Java, Node, Go, or others) preferred.

• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes at scale.

• Demonstrated mastery in at least one specialized area (Distributed Streaming, Relational/Non‑relational Databases, or application development in AWS).

• Able to participate in an occasional on‑call rotation to address high‑priority production issues.