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Senior Cloud Engineer

USP
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
Rockville, Maryland, United States

Who is USP?

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world’s leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.

At USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds—regardless of background—to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

Brief Job Overview

Design, build, and maintain secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on AWS ensuring high availability and scalability.
Design, architect, and lead the integration and installation of new technologies with regards to AWS and AWS integrations. Design, build and optimize DevOps pipelines including multiple quality gates and quick feedback loops. Collaborate with application development teams to transform traditional web
applications into container-based environments using Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service/Fargate.
Act as a technical lead on a variety of projects, delivering high quality, in an agile environment. Develop KPIs, establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics to track pipeline performance. Keep abreast with the rapid changes in technology and recommend suitable technology improvements. Monitor applications and troubleshoot any production issues.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, and four (4) years of related work experience.
Must have four (4) years of experience with/in:
 Building AWS infrastructure and DevOpsX;
 AWS foundational services, and ECS/Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, Code Commit, Batch, Lamda, Code
Deploy, CloudFront, Athena, or Glue;
 CI/CD and Agile tool sets including Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Jenkins;
 Linux administration and networking;
 Containerization skills using Docker;
 Maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform;
 Programming/scripting languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, HTML, or CSS;
 Cloud computing and integration methods; and
 Testing tools such as Sonarqube and CircleCI

Telecommuting is permitted up to two (2) days per week.
To apply, please email resume to Sundar Nagarajan at Sundar.Nagarajan@usp.org and reference: MD0030

 Supervisory Responsibilities

None, this is an individual contributor role.

40 hrs/week, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Salary: $150,448.00/yr. Standard company benefits