Senior Infrastructure Engineer, AWS

🕒 April 24

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uMed

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11 - 50 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

🔬 Science

💰 $4.8M Seed Round on 2020-12

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Science

uMed is a company that specializes in building consented patient cohorts to accelerate research and generate insights that improve patient outcomes. Their ACCESS Research Platform is embedded across a global network of healthcare institutions, allowing researchers to access custom patient data from remote electronic health records, clinical outcomes, and patient-generated data. uMed collaborates with healthcare providers, life science researchers, and companies to address evidence gaps in research, improve treatment development, and make research more accessible. Their platform supports evidence collection and helps answer new research questions through deeply characterized patient data, ensuring privacy and transparency for all stakeholders involved.

📋 Description

• About usuMed is a healthtech and data platform transforming clinical research through real-world and patient-generated data. Our platform enables rapid, decentralized research and high-quality data generation across a global healthcare network. • As we scale our next-generation data platform, we are investing in strong infrastructure foundations to support secure, reliable, and compliant data and application workflows. • Role OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) to take ownership of our cloud and hybrid infrastructure. • This role is responsible for designing, securing, and operating our AWS environment, managing access and identity across teams, and supporting integration with third-party and on-premise systems (e.g., TPP). • A key part of this role is reducing operational overhead by improving infrastructure design, access models, and system standardization. You will play a critical role in moving us from reactive infrastructure management to a scalable, well-governed platform. • You will act as the primary owner of infrastructure-related decisions and best practices across the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• AWS Infrastructure Ownership • - Own and manage uMed’s AWS environment across dev, staging, and production • - Design and maintain VPCs, networking, and environment isolation • - Manage core services including EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, and Redshift • - Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or equivalent) • - Manage cloud-hosted databases (e.g., RDS), including provisioning, access control, backup/restore, and security configuration • Access & Identity Management (High Priority) • - Design and manage IAM roles, policies, and permission models • - Provision secure access for internal teams, external collaborators, and offshore teams • - Enable secure connectivity via: • - IAM / AWS Identity Center • - Role-based access • - Bastion hosts / tunnel servers where required • - Improve and standardize access models and patterns to reduce manual provisioning • Hybrid & Third-Party System Management • - Lead setup and ongoing management of third-party/on-premise systems (e.g., TPP Hub/Reporting Unit) • - Provision and manage VM-based environments (Linux/Windows) • - Configure networking and connectivity (VPNs, IP whitelisting, firewall rules) • - Troubleshoot and resolve issues across AWS and vendor-managed systems • - Work directly with external vendors to support deployment and maintenance • - Document setup, dependencies, and recovery processes • - Provide occasional support for issues in third-party systems deployed in external environments (e.g., GP practice systems), including troubleshooting installation or connectivity issues in collaboration with end users and vendors • Reliability, Backup & Disaster Recovery • - Define and implement backup strategies across all critical systems • - Own disaster recovery planning (RTO/RPO), execution, and testing • - Regularly test restore and failover processes • - Improve system resilience and reduce operational risk • Monitoring, Security & Compliance • - Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, DataDog) • - Ensure infrastructure aligns with security best practices and ISO 27001 requirements • - Maintain auditability of access and system activity (CloudTrail, logging) • - Support vulnerability management and incident readiness • Infrastructure Hygiene & Cost Management • - Identify and remove unused or underutilized resources • - Implement tagging, cost allocation, and cost optimization practices • - Maintain a clean, well-structured AWS environment • Platform & Automation Improvements • - Automate provisioning and operational workflows • - Reduce manual and repetitive infrastructure tasks • - Improve system design to minimize incidents and operational overhead • Required Experience • - 5+ years of experience in infrastructure / DevOps roles • - Strong hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, ECS/Fargate, S3, RDS, Redshift) • - Proven experience managing multi-account AWS environments • - Experience designing and managing secure, auditable access to AWS resources, including data platforms • - Strong understanding of networking (VPCs, VPNs, routing, security groups) • - Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) • - Experience with backup, restore, and disaster recovery planning and testing • - Strong Linux and scripting skills (Bash/Python) • - Experience with monitoring tools (DataDog, CloudWatch) • - Comfortable troubleshooting issues in external or user-managed environments where infrastructure is not directly controlled** • **Desirable Experience:** • - Experience integrating with on-premise or third-party systems • - Experience working in regulated environments (ISO 27001, HIPAA, GxP) • - Exposure to Windows-based environments (for hybrid/vendor systems)

🏖️ Benefits

• - Private Health Insurance to keep you covered • - Pension Plan to help you secure your future • - Plenty of Paid Time Off for your well-deserved breaks • - Work From Home equipment budget for a comfortable working space • - Flexible Benefits platform tailored to your needs • - Enjoy your Birthday Day Off on us! • - Eye-test vouchers for Specsavers to look after your eyesight • - Coworking policy – catch up with the team as regularly as once a week