Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

1. General Information

2. Detailed Information

2.1 PURPOSE OF ROLE

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.

2.2 WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• 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

2.3 WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

Focus

• 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

Other Technical Skills (Essential)

• 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

Preferred

• 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

2.4 Benefits:

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k with Company Match)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Free Breakfast and Lunch 5 days a Week
• Wellness Resources

This job description is not exhaustive and may vary depending on the needs of the business.