[Remote] Senior Software Engineer/Cloud Engineer - fully remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alphanumeric Systems is hiring a Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer to support a global leader in medical and pharmaceutical innovation. The role focuses on architecting and building reliable, scalable, secure cloud-native applications while developing cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. The engineer will collaborate across teams, contribute to Agile development and CI/CD practices, and translate loosely defined requirements into technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications
- Translate business and technical requirements into well-designed software solutions and technical specifications
- Develop and maintain production-quality software within modern cloud environments
- Design solutions across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS), with GCP strongly preferred
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
- Partner with product teams, software engineers, cloud engineers, and internal and external stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
- Apply software engineering best practices to system design, implementation, testing, security, reliability, and scalability
- Support modern CI/CD and automated deployment practices
- Participate in Agile development activities, technical design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving
- Champion secure engineering practices and contribute to continuous improvement across the engineering organization
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; Master's or PhD welcomed
- Approximately 8-10+ years of relevant software/cloud engineering experience or equivalent experience
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience is required
- Experience developing production applications, backend services, APIs, microservices, or other cloud-native software solutions
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- Experience working within an Agile software development environment
- Ability to independently architect and build solutions from loosely defined business or technical requirements
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Hands-on Rust programming experience
- Experience with Python, Go, or other modern software development languages
- Kubernetes and containerization experience
- Cloud infrastructure engineering experience
- Experience developing cloud-native applications and microservices
- Pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience
- Eastern Time Zone preferred
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - strongly preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement, with the Eastern Time Zone preferred
- A collaborative engineering environment where technical quality, security, curiosity, and continuous improvement are highly valued
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