Platform Engineering Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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CenExel

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

CenExel is a U. S. -based clinical research site network operating multiple Centers of Excellence nationwide that run and support clinical trials to advance new therapies. The company partners with life science and pharmaceutical sponsors to manage participant recruitment, trial operations, and data collection, emphasizing patient experience, quality, and scientific rigor. CenExel also offers a mobile app to connect patients with trials and participates in multisite research collaborations to accelerate drug development.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the CTO • Own the full lifecycle of shared platform and software-delivery capabilities from discovery and prioritization through implementation, adoption, operations, and continuous improvement • Build trusted partnerships with engineering teams and translate recurring workflow friction into shared capabilities and measurable improvements • Develop and manage an outcome-driven roadmap spanning delivery tooling, cloud foundations, reusable services, reliability, and developer experience • Make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions for a small team • Create reusable, self-service capabilities with appropriate controls embedded in tools, workflows, and automation • Own CI/CD, release automation, deployment and rollback capabilities, shared testing platforms, and source-code repository and branching standards • Define code-review expectations and implement automated quality gates, including branch protection, static analysis, dependency and security scanning, build validation, and automated testing • Own cloud platform foundations, infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, secrets and artifact management, shared integration infrastructure, and reusable technical services • Establish SRE practices including observability, service-level objectives, on-call coverage, incident response, problem management, and resilience planning • Partner with Engineering, IT Operations, Security, and Quality to embed controls and validation evidence into delivery pipelines and establish ownership and escalation paths • Provide backup leadership during critical infrastructure incidents with IT Operations • Establish performance baselines and track deployment, change, pipeline, testing, adoption, and developer-experience metrics • Use performance data, incident trends, and developer feedback to reduce build times, unreliable tests, deployment friction, and recurring manual work • Partner with engineering leaders to improve maintainability, address technical debt, and strengthen application reliability • Evaluate, pilot, validate, govern, and implement AI-assisted engineering and operations tools • Reduce vendor and key-person dependencies through automation, documentation, cross-training, and knowledge transfer • Lead through influence in an established, regulated organization while supporting FDA regulations, ICH, GCP, SOPs, protocols, and company policies • Assume other duties and responsibilities as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related technical field—or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience • Relevant cloud, DevOps, or SRE certifications are valued but not required • Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability engineering (SRE), including relevant leadership experience • Demonstrated success building shared capabilities that achieved strong adoption across engineering teams and measurably improved delivery performance and system reliability • Experience working in established or regulated organizations • Practical, adaptable approach suited to a small team environment • Experience with Microsoft products including Azure, Azure DevOps, Dynamics, etc. • Must be based in the United States • Able to serve as a hands-on player-coach, leading one or two platform and SRE engineers in India while contributing directly to technical design and implementation • Indoor, office environment; sitting, typing, standing, and walking required • Occasional lifting of up to 20 pounds • Reporting to work as scheduled is essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation • Health Insurance • Dental • Vision • LTD • STD • Life Ins • 401k • Benefits package for full-time employees after 30 days of employment • Approximately 10% travel to support site engagement across the network