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Platform Engineer
<p>We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support the design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of secure, reliable cloud platforms. This role partners with application, infrastructure, business, and vendor teams to prepare solutions for deployment, strengthen operational readiness, and resolve technical issues across the delivery lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings strong DevOps experience, hands-on cloud engineering skills, and a practical approach to automation, observability, and compliance in a healthcare-focused environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Partner with application teams early in the delivery process to review architecture, confirm deployment readiness, and clarify technical dependencies, assumptions, and release expectations.</p><p>• Create platform designs that prioritize resilience, maintainability, and operational support, including rollback planning, failure response, measurable outcomes, and defined ownership.</p><p>• Serve as a central technical liaison across development, infrastructure, security, and compliance stakeholders to keep communication aligned throughout implementation and release activities.</p><p>• Detect technical, operational, and security concerns before deployment and coordinate with teams to mitigate risks before they affect production environments.</p><p>• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and help restore services while driving improvements that reduce recurring issues.</p><p>• Build, enhance, and support CI/CD workflows for code integration, testing, and application deployment using repeatable automation practices.</p><p>• Automate deployment processes and manage cloud-based, containerized workloads, including services running on AWS and AWS Fargate.</p><p>• Provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform and contribute to standards, code review practices, and governance for Infrastructure as Code and delivery pipelines.</p><p>• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable platforms, while maintaining clear technical documentation.</p><p>• Support the modernization of legacy on-premises applications and assist with compliance activities such as audit logging, vulnerability remediation, and patch management</p>
<p>• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related role.</p><p>• AWS DevOps Engineer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification required.</p><p>• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch.</p><p>• Practical knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes.</p><p>• Experience using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools to manage cloud environments.</p><p>• Familiarity with source control and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub and GitHub Actions.</p><p>• Programming or scripting experience, preferably with Python, along with working knowledge of automation and configuration practices.</p>
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  • Princeton, NJ
  • remote
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • 140000 - 165000 USD / Yearly
  • <p>We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support the design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of secure, reliable cloud platforms. This role partners with application, infrastructure, business, and vendor teams to prepare solutions for deployment, strengthen operational readiness, and resolve technical issues across the delivery lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings strong DevOps experience, hands-on cloud engineering skills, and a practical approach to automation, observability, and compliance in a healthcare-focused environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Partner with application teams early in the delivery process to review architecture, confirm deployment readiness, and clarify technical dependencies, assumptions, and release expectations.</p><p>• Create platform designs that prioritize resilience, maintainability, and operational support, including rollback planning, failure response, measurable outcomes, and defined ownership.</p><p>• Serve as a central technical liaison across development, infrastructure, security, and compliance stakeholders to keep communication aligned throughout implementation and release activities.</p><p>• Detect technical, operational, and security concerns before deployment and coordinate with teams to mitigate risks before they affect production environments.</p><p>• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and help restore services while driving improvements that reduce recurring issues.</p><p>• Build, enhance, and support CI/CD workflows for code integration, testing, and application deployment using repeatable automation practices.</p><p>• Automate deployment processes and manage cloud-based, containerized workloads, including services running on AWS and AWS Fargate.</p><p>• Provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform and contribute to standards, code review practices, and governance for Infrastructure as Code and delivery pipelines.</p><p>• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable platforms, while maintaining clear technical documentation.</p><p>• Support the modernization of legacy on-premises applications and assist with compliance activities such as audit logging, vulnerability remediation, and patch management</p>
  • 2026-06-24T00:00:00Z

Platform Engineer Job in Princeton, NJ | Robert Half