The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer optimizes cloud platforms, drives CI/CD enablement, ensures security compliance, mentors junior engineers, and enhances system reliability.
Why join Nextech?
We are a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions.
We’re committed to hiring and retaining talent, which is why we invest in our employees through competitive pay, a generous bonus structure, great healthcare, a comprehensive wellness program, and many other benefits.
If you are a software engineer, finance or accounting professional, customer support specialist, or a business development expert with a passion for healthcare technology (just to name a few), we want to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics are encouraged to apply. If you are a candidate in need of assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact [email protected].
Job Summary
The Senior Platform Engineer drives developer enablement through infrastructure automation, cloud platform optimization, standardized engineering workflows, strong security practices, and mentorship of junior engineers; as a result, improving the reliability, security, and scalability of Nextech products used by our customers.
All activities must be in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA and other regulations, as appropriate.
Essential Functions
- Platform CI/CD Enablement: Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure CI/CD workflows and deployment strategies that enable teams to deliver Nextech products to customers with greater speed, reliability, and confidence.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Excellence: Lead the creation and maintenance of a robust Infrastructure as Code ecosystem that promotes consistency, reusability, ease of use, cost efficiency, and high engineering quality across the platform.
- Security & Compliance by Design: Embed security and compliance controls across cloud platforms, pipelines, networking, and infrastructure, partnering with engineering and security teams to ensure the secure delivery of customer‑facing products.
- Observability & Telemetry: Lead the design and adoption of monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to support proactive performance tuning, improve system visibility, and enhance reliability for customers.
- Production Operations & Reliability: Own platform stability through on call procedures and incident response, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and continuous operational improvement to minimize customer impact and service disruption.
- High Availability & Resilience: Design and support highly available, multi‑region architectures with strong resiliency, recoverability, and disaster recovery (DR) patterns to ensure uninterrupted customer access to Nextech products.
- Automation & Scripting: Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and performance optimization to improve efficiency, consistency, and operational excellence across environments.
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers, modeling engineering best practices, and owning delivery quality across shared platform services.
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate technical decisions clearly to engineering teams and leadership, align platform initiatives with business priorities, and anticipate customer needs to deliver long‑term value.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on cloud technologies (IaaS/SaaS/PaaS)
- 3+ years Azure cloud experience
- 3+ years working with CI/CD tools (preferably Azure DevOps or Github Actions)
- 2+ years cloud networking (WAF, routing, vWAN, etc.)
- Scripting (PowerShell, Python, .NET)
- Terraform for IaC
- Configuration management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
- Strong Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) understanding
- TCP/IP and OSI fluency
- Certificate management
- Experience with infrastructure, network, and application security best practices
- Experience with APM (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic)
- Proven experience in both Windows and Linux environments
- Agile experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field
- At least one cloud-related certification
- Experience defining secure patterns and multi-region scalability
- Familiarity with DR planning
Working Environment/Physical Demands
- 100% Remote
- Activities require a significant amount of work in front of a computer monitor
Total Rewards:
Generous annual bonus opportunity
Generous annual bonus opportunity
401(k) with Employer Match
Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
11 paid holidays
Your Day Your Way - Celebrate a day of cultural or social significance to you
Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account with employer match
Flexible Spending Account
100% Company-Paid Parental leave (After 6 months with the company)
100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
Nextech Luminary Peer Recognition Program
Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment
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