Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

eMed•Miami, FL

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer in Cloud at eMed, you will play a central role in designing, building, and maintaining the platform that empowers our application developers. You’ll work on critical systems that ensure reliability, security, and scalability—enabling product teams to deliver rapidly and safely. We are seeking someone who can focus on the developer experience, supporting our developers to easily achieve their objectives by exposing platform capabilities in a simple, transparent and effective manner, appropriate for a small Cloud Engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who can partner with application engineers to understand their needs and find effective solutions whilst understanding, meeting and helping to improve our engineering standards.

Requirements

Bachelors in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or commensurate experience.
5+ years of proven experience in software development, cloud systems, scalable architectures.
Good understanding of the needs of an application developer and being able to partner with the application developer; a plus is experience as an application developer.
Ability to foster relationships with engineers and engineering teams
Experience iteratively building out and / or introducing platform tooling with fast customer (application developers) feedback loops
Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure in a major public cloud environment (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking, IAM, compute, and storage services.
Proficiency operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster lifecycle management, autoscaling, and observability.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools, managing infrastructure in a modular, reusable, and automated way.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated software delivery.
Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and lead delivery of reliable cloud solutions

Nice To Haves

Background in software engineering
Experience with AWS and related services (e.g. VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda)
Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms
Solid understanding of systems reliability, incident response, and platform security principles
Experience working in regulated environments (e.g. healthcare or finance), with exposure to compliance and data security
Exposure to cost monitoring and optimisation in AWS environments
Experience in infrastructure audits, threat modelling, or hardening cloud security controls

Responsibilities

Foster links with application developers to understand their needs and issues.
Design, build, and operate platform tooling that creates a seamless developer experience.
Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles
Operate and improve our production Kubernetes environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and maintainability
Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions), driving automation and reliability across the software delivery lifecycle
Improve platform observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems, contributing to incident response and prevention
Work closely with engineers across teams to support infrastructure needs, unblock delivery, and embed platform best practices
Contribute to infrastructure design reviews, documentation, and internal tooling to support developer productivity
Participate in and contribute to in-person, daily stand-ups and cross-team meetings
Share knowledge and mentor other engineers to raise cloud competency across the team
Stay current with cloud technologies and contribute to platform improvement proposals