Platform Architect (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote in the United Kingdom or Romania

Company

hirify.global develops software for end-to-end management of blood, plasma, tissue, stem cell, and cell and gene therapy operations for blood centers, healthcare organizations, laboratories, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and related service providers.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the architecture of cloud platforms and managed services, translating business, customer, security, regulatory, and operational requirements into technical designs.
• Lead the design of platform capabilities, customer solutions, integrations, migrations, and major platform changes with a focus on secure, scalable, resilient, supportable, observable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Create architecture diagrams, solution designs, standards, technical roadmaps, implementation guidance, and architectural decisions.
• Participate directly in engineering delivery, including infrastructure-as-code, automation, platform components, prototypes, and production solutions.
• Review solutions, identify technical risks and dependencies, support non-functional activities and incident investigations, and guide engineers through complex design decisions.
• Work with engineering, security, quality, product, project teams, and customers; explain solutions, present architectural decisions, evaluate technologies, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating cloud platforms, preferably AWS, in regulated, business-critical, or highly available environments.
• Strong hands-on platform, cloud, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience, including willingness to undertake engineering-focused delivery.
• Experience defining solution architectures, technical designs, standards, and technology roadmaps, and leading complex cloud solutions, migrations, integrations, or platform changes.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, container platforms, CI/CD, configuration management, and automation using technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Significant experience with Kubernetes and Docker; Kubernetes experience, ideally EKS, is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, Linux/Unix, distributed systems, microservices, identity and access management, security, monitoring, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including availability, performance, backup, and operational requirements.
• Understanding of the complete software and platform lifecycle, including architecture, engineering, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation, balance long-term architecture with practical delivery, evaluate options, troubleshoot problems, and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including direct customer interaction and the ability to explain complex subjects to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Flexibility and adaptability, with a positive attitude toward management and customer requests and the ability to respond to changing business goals.
• Fluent written and verbal English. A bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, is required.

Nice to have

• Relevant AWS or architecture certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from the United Kingdom or Romania.
• Hands-on involvement across architecture, customer engagement, engineering, and delivery; the role may focus entirely on engineering during some periods.
• Opportunities to promote standardisation, reuse, automation, strong engineering practices, and innovation.
• Work on software supporting blood, plasma, tissue, stem cell, and cell and gene therapy organisations.