Associate Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid/Remote, reporting into offices in Pennsylvania or North Carolina; hybrid workers attend the office 2 days per week.

Salary: Competitive salary.

Company

hirify.global's d-wise business designs, deploys, and supports validated AWS cloud infrastructure for life-sciences and clinical-trial organizations, including the Accel statistical computing environment.

What you will do

• Support deployment and onboarding of client environments using existing infrastructure-as-code templates, Terraform modules, and deployment pipelines.
• Monitor infrastructure health and pipelines, troubleshoot provisioning errors, and escalate complex issues to senior platform engineers.
• Apply approved infrastructure changes and support AWS administration, governance, audit evidence collection, and operational reporting.
• Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, technical documentation, configuration records, and change-validation materials.
• Support disaster recovery planning and testing, client data migrations, migration rehearsals, cutovers, and post-migration validation.
• Assist with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Active Directory integration, access management, and identity-related platform administration.

Requirements

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in computer science, cloud computing, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Initial experience in IT operations, cloud administration, systems administration, technical support, or related internship or academic projects.
• Foundational knowledge of AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, security groups, and basic cloud networking.
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts and ability to run and interpret Terraform commands for existing configurations.
• Familiarity with Git and basic CI/CD concepts, including branching, pull requests, and automated pipelines.
• Foundational knowledge of enterprise storage concepts, including NFS, SMB/CIFS, snapshots, backups, and replication.
• Basic understanding of identity and access management, Active Directory, and role-based access control.
• Basic scripting ability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder engagement, documentation, and operational-record skills; ability to follow defined change-control and validation processes in a regulated, audit-driven environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position with flexible hybrid or remote/home working and a one-off remote-working allowance.
• Development opportunities covering personal and technical growth within a solutions-focused global business.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, long-term disability, and short-term disability insurance.
• 401K matching plan, flexible spending account, health savings account, and 15 days of vacation plus public holidays and a buy-and-sell scheme.

Hiring process

• Submit an application; the Talent team will follow up with qualified candidates.