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Pharmacy Data Management, Inc. (PDMI)

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Pharmacy Data Management, Inc. (PDMI), Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

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AWS Cloud Operations Engineer Pharmacy Data Management, Inc. (PDMI) is looking to add an AWS Cloud Operations Engineer to our team! The role involves deploying, managing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and applications in AWS environments, ensuring seamless, secure, and efficient deployment of infrastructure and application code. You will work closely with internal IT and development teams to maintain a highly available and scalable cloud ecosystem.

Why Join Us

Best Employer: PDMI was voted Best Employer in Ohio for the 5th consecutive year in 2025!

Meaningful Work: Contribute to improving healthcare quality and efficiency.

Collaborative Environment: Work with passionate professionals who share your drive.

Exciting Challenges: Every day brings new opportunities to excel.

Flexible Work: Fully remote opportunity with a company that cares.

Responsibilities

Own and manage all production AWS environments across multi‑account Control Tower architecture (Shared, Prod, Dev, and specialized workloads).

Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.

Deploy and operate containerized applications using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) and Amazon ECS/Fargate.

Support microservices architecture, service mesh, sidecars, and container security best practices.

Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS‑native tools (SSM, Lambda, Step Functions).

Manage and optimize core AWS services, including:

Compute: EC2, ASGs, Launch Templates

Networking: VPC, TGW, Security Groups, Route53, VPN/Direct Connect, NAT Gateways, ALB/NLB

Storage: S3, EBS, EFS

Databases: RDS (MySQL, SQL Server), Aurora, DynamoDB

Monitoring & logging: CloudWatch, AWS Config, GuardDuty, Inspector; Datadog for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM

Implement and enforce security, governance, and best practices across IAM, KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager.

Support and troubleshoot production workloads, including performance bottlenecks, networking issues, and container failures.

Work closely with the development team, but maintain ownership of production infrastructure, deployments, and reliability.

Participate in on‑call rotation for production‑critical services.

Utilize Kafka / Confluent Cloud, CI platform integrations, and microservices observability.

What We’re Looking For

3+ years of hands‑on AWS engineering or DevOps experience (production‑grade).

Strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using:

GitHub Actions (required)

AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild / CodeDeploy

Strong experience with EKS (Kubernetes fundamentals, deployments, autoscaling, node groups/Fargate, networking).

Experience with ECS/Fargate, container registries, image lifecycle management, and security.

Hands‑on experience with:

Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation

EC2, VPC, routing, load balancing, security groups

S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager

Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge

RDS/Aurora or DynamoDB

Understanding of multi‑account AWS environments, SSO/Identity, and production governance.

Ability to diagnose complex AWS issues (networking, IAM, CI/CD, K8s failures).

Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell (good to have).

Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with developers while owning production reliability.

Experience with Datadog (Logging, APM, RUM, synthetic tests).

Experience with Confluent Kafka or event‑streaming architectures.

Familiarity with modern IaC patterns (modules, GitOps, reusable pipelines).

Familiarity with GitHub administration, branch protection, runners, or organization‑level DevOps processes.

Experience in healthcare, compliance‑heavy, or regulated environments.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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