Senior Platform Engineer
HealthEdge3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$110k - $117k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS and Azure infrastructure platforms and Infrastructure as Code automation across multi-account/subscription and multi-region environments.
- Create reusable, versioned, auditable infrastructure modules and convert Terraform, CloudFormation, and Bicep/ARM templates to the corporate IaC standard.
- Design cross-account and cross-subscription identity, access, least-privilege, policy, and tagging governance patterns.
- Build self-service tooling, templates, reference patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and automation for safe, reproducible infrastructure deployments.
- Use Python and Bash automation plus SaltStack or Ansible to reduce manual operational work and enforce standards.
- Own multi-month infrastructure projects end to end, document cloud best practices, and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing.
- Build and operate observability deployment tooling for metrics, dashboards, alerting, and cloud-native monitoring services.
- Participate in L3 on-call escalation, troubleshoot incidents, conduct root cause analysis and retrospectives, and improve runbooks and platform automation.
- Encode FedRAMP, HIPAA, and SOC 2 security controls into IaC and policy-as-code and partner with SecOps on identity, access, and audit evidence.
- Support FinOps initiatives by diagnosing cost anomalies and balancing cost, performance, and utilization.
- Use and evaluate GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor for IaC development, scripting, troubleshooting, and documentation while validating generated output.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with deep AWS or Azure expertise and working knowledge of the other.
- Strong AWS CDK experience in Python.
- Experience owning and delivering infrastructure projects end to end.
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation or Bicep/ARM in addition to AWS CDK.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or an equivalent tool.
- Experience designing AWS IAM and Azure Entra ID/RBAC patterns, including cross-account or cross-subscription access and least-privilege enforcement.
- Experience with containerized cloud-native environments and Kubernetes, including EKS and/or AKS.
- Configuration management experience with SaltStack, or Ansible, Chef, or Puppet with willingness to learn SaltStack.
- Strong scripting skills with Python required and Bash or PowerShell preferred.
- Experience integrating security tooling into development and deployment cycles.
- Experience resolving escalated L3 infrastructure incidents and communicating technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include observability automation, mentoring or technical leadership, regulated-environment experience, FinOps and cost governance experience, AWS or Azure certifications, and healthcare technology experience.
Benefits
- Remote US position with a hybrid or remote work environment and work across multiple time zones.
- Full-time, permanent, exempt employment.
- Travel may be required based on company needs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Candidates may be required to complete a pre-employment criminal background check.
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About HealthEdge
HealthEdge builds enterprise software for health insurers, including core claims administration, payment integrity, care management, and member engagement products delivered as SaaS. Its customers are health plans seeking to modernize operations and connect payers, providers, and members. The company is privately held, headquartered in Boston, and operates as part of Bain Capital’s portfolio.