Modmed
Staff Cloud Development Engineer-1
Boca Raton, FL · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
PythonJavaNode.jsNoSQLAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringKafkaComplianceHIPAAEHR/EMRLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- A Culture of Excellence When you join ModMed, you're joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction.
- Job Description Summary: As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead efforts to ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our AWS cloud infrastructure.
- You will be pivotal in defining and implementing best practices for cloud architecture and service utilization across a broad portfolio of applications.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with staff / architect group to produce standardized, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, guardrails and best practices for development teams to deploy safely and quickly to production, with an emphasis on developer self-service
- Lead technical strategy in the following areas:
- Streaming: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like Apache Kafka, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform
- Database: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like AWS Aurora, RDS, and NoSQL, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform
- lead complex migrations, sharding strategies, and performance tuning.
- AWS application development: Serve as the cloud lead for a subset of applications to guide their evolution towards efficient and standardized consumption of public cloud services, especially as it pertains to migration toward microservices running on Kubernetes.
- Implement and refine monitoring solutions using observability tools DataDog, ensuring proactive issue identification and efficient resource utilization.
- Lead the development of reusable IaC modules using tools like Terraform or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.
- Database: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like AWS Aurora, RDS, and NoSQL, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform; lead complex migrations, sharding strategies, and performance tuning.
Nice to have
- Ensure strict adherence to AWS security standards and data protection regulations (SOC2/HIPAA) while balancing cost implications.
- Mentor junior and senior team members, fostering a culture where every engineer is a technical leader in their area of expertise
- Engage in face-to-face architectural white-boarding and cross-functional planning from our Boca Raton headquarters.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 8 years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, software engineering, or a similar role, with a proven track record of solving complex problems in large-scale public cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Extensive experience managing AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53) or similar in another cloud platform
- Deep proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and other cloud-native technologies.
Skills
- Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work
- 2025
Compensation
- 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation.
Benefits
- At ModMed, we believe it's important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
- Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
- Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
- Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.
- Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:
Company info
- Venture-Backed Company of the Year
- We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.
- Ready to modernize medicine with us?
- Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process.
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