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Senior individual contributor who leads the cloud platform, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD for the Applications Engineering team, and is technical lead for its AWS environments, pipelines, observability, and secrets/access management. Works with SREs on production reliability and incident response, and is responsible for compliance controls on regulated applications. Stack includes AWS (EC2, EKS/ECS), Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Datadog or Grafana, and Python.
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About N-Power Medicine
N-Power Medicine aims to establish a new paradigm in drug development by reinventing the āhowā and transforming clinical trials through better integration with clinical practice, ensuring broader participation by physicians and patients.Ā We are building an exceptional multi-disciplinary team with diverse expertise spanning healthcare, engineering, technology and regulatory, and with people who share our core value of Empowering Community through generosity, curiosity and humility.Ā We are working with urgency to bring better therapies to patients faster.
Position Overview
N-Power Medicine is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the cloud platform, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD foundation that the Applications Engineering teamās products run on. This team is responsible for the internal applications, orchestration platform, and operational tooling that the rest of the technology organization and Operations depend on, and the cloud platform underneath them.
This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role and the technical lead for the teamās AWS environments, deployment pipelines, observability stack, secrets and access management, and the overall security and compliance posture of the application stack. Cross-functional partnership is central ā with ample collaboration expected with site reliability engineers on the team for production reliability and incident response, and with application engineers on making the path to production fast, safe, and well-instrumented. You will also be a key steward of the controls that keep regulated applications compliant.
This position is remote within the United States.
Role Objectives and Responsibilities
- Lead the design, evolution, and day-to-day operation of the teamās AWS environments, including networking, IAM, compute (EC2, EKS/ECS), storage, and managed services.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practice across the team using Terraform, Helm, and configuration tooling; raise the bar on reusability, modularity, and review.
- Build and maintain the teamās CI/CD pipelines so that engineers can ship to production safely, predictably, and with appropriate gates.
- Operate and evolve the observability stack (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) so that issues are surfaced early and root cause is fast to identify.
- Maintain the security and compliance posture of the application stack, including secrets management, access controls, and audit loggingĀ
- Partner with the Site Reliability Engineer on production reliability, on-call practices, incident response, and post-incident learning.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance to application engineers on deployment patterns, environment management, and platform-aware design.
- Plan and execute environment changes ā provisioning, migrations, upgrades, and decommissioning ā with clear rollback paths.
- Evaluate and introduce new tooling and platform capabilities deliberately, balancing innovation against the teamās small size and operational load.
- Document the platform clearly: architecture diagrams, runbooks, environment inventories, and decision records that survive turnover.
- Coordinate with Data Engineering and AI Engineering on shared platform concerns where the application stack interfaces with the broader NPM data and AI platform.
- Carry pager responsibility for the application stack as part of a small on-call rotation.
Education, Experience, Behavioral Competencies, & Skills
- Bachelorās degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of combined experience in Cloud / DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering, with deep production AWS experience.
- Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform (required), and one or more of CloudFormation or Helm.
- Production experience with container platforms ā Docker plus Kubernetes (EKS preferred) ā including cluster operations, networking, and Helm chart authoring.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent) and artifact management tooling (Artifactory, Nexus, or equivalent).
- Working proficiency in Python and shell scripting for automation, plus comfort reading code in the languages the application team ships in.
- Experience with log aggregation and observability tooling such as Datadog or Grafana, and with defining SLIs / SLOs / SLAs.
- Solid grasp of cloud security practices: IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, audit logging, and patch / vulnerability management.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as the primary cloud / platform engineer on a small team ā deeply hands-on, well-organized, and able to prioritize against pressure.
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain platform decisions and trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers alike.
- Strong sense of ownership and personal accountability; calm under pressure.
- Generous, Curious & Humble.
The following are preferred or nice to have:
- Prior experience supporting a regulated environment (healthcare, life sciences, finance) and the controls that come with it.
- AWS professional-level certification (e.g., DevOps Engineer Professional, Solutions Architect Professional).
- Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Databricks or comparable) at the infrastructure layer.
- Experience supporting application teams through a platform migration or system decommissioning, including 21 CFR Part 11 obligations.
Travel Requirements
This is a remote-eligible role that will require periodic travel to company and team on-site meetings.
Pay Information
The expected salary range for this position is $141,500 and $187,755. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. N-Power Medicine (NPM) offers equity at hire as well as a discretionary annual bonus which may be available based on Company performance. This position is eligible for company benefits.
More About Us
We are a mission-driven, well-funded, rapidly growing company, eager to attract passionate professionals offering a highly attractive compensation package with a balanced and flexible work environment, competitive industry benefits as well as a 401K plan and other great company perks.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Covid-19 Policy - The Company is committed to providing and maintaining a safe workplace, and to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees, families, visitors, and the community. While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary. We currently do not have mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for our employees and contractors, as the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. However, there are certain N-Power Medicine employees and contractors who, based on their role, will be required to continue to follow our 2021 COVID-19 vaccination and other requirements as mandated by N-Power Medicineās partners they serve. We reserve the right to modify or amend our corporate policy at any time.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
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More About Us
We are a mission driven, well -funded, rapidly growing company, eager to attract passionate professionals offering a highly attractive compensation package with a balanced and ļ¬exible workĀ environment,Ā competitiveĀ industryĀ beneļ¬tsĀ asĀ wellĀ asĀ aĀ 401KĀ planĀ and other great company āperks.ā
WeĀ areĀ anĀ EqualĀ OpportunityĀ EmployerĀ andĀ valueĀ diversityĀ atĀ ourĀ company.Ā WeĀ doĀ not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Covid-19 Policy
ā The Company is committed to providing and maintaining a safe workplace, and to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees, families, visitors, and the community. While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary.Ā We currently do not have mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for our employees and contractors, as the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. However, there are certain N-Power Medicine employees and contractors who, based on their role, will be required to continue to follow our 2021 COVID-19 vaccination and other requirements as mandated by N-Power Medicineās partners they serve.Ā We reserve the right to modify or amend our corporate policy at any time.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
If you ļ¬nd this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply today! We promptly review all applications. Highly qualiļ¬ed candidates will be directly contacted by a team member.