[Hiring] Principal DevOps Architect @REALTIME SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LLC

Role Description

The Principal DevOps Architect is the senior technical authority for the cloud platform that runs RealTime’s global, multi-tenant clinical-trial services, and drives RealTime’s adoption of infrastructure as code and AI tooling. This is a hands-on individual-contributor architect role rather than a people-management role.

• Design the platform architecture.
• Set the standards and reference implementations other teams build on.
• Write Terraform, build pipelines, and stand up the AI platform yourself.
• Define how reliability is measured against SLOs.
• Influence products, software, and QA through architecture and example.
• Keep the environment HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 audit-ready.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/platform engineering delivering CI/CD, REST API deployment, containerization, IaaS/PaaS, data pipelines, and application observability.
• Proven technical authority across teams.
• Demonstrated experience driving adoption of a new practice or platform.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications on AWS.
• Experience running containerized workloads on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting using cloud-native tooling and OpenTelemetry.
• Linux system administration, Unix scripting, and automation.
• 2+ years in one or more PHP, MySQL, and SQL is a plus.
• Experience working in a HIPAA / HITECH / HITRUST / PHI / PII or PCI DSS environment.

Requirements

• Own the platform architecture and technical roadmap for infrastructure, deployment, observability, and the AI platform.
• Set the engineering standards, patterns, and golden paths for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and AI tooling.
• Act as hands-on technical authority and mentor to engineers across teams.
• Drive RealTime’s move to infrastructure as code and AI tooling.
• Manage all cloud infrastructure as code in Terraform.
• Enforce policy-as-code for infrastructure changes.
• Design and deploy AWS infrastructure for performance, availability, recoverability, and security.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications on AWS.
• Lead the SLI/SLO/SLA program and manage error budgets.
• Provision and operate the AI/ML platform.
• Operate and evidence the platform controls required for SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA continuously.
• Coordinate with product, development, support, operations, and QA.

Benefits

• The company sponsors health insurance, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off.
• 10 paid Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Work Anniversary Bonus.
• Participation in the Employee of the Quarter Program.
• Monthly $100 Connectivity Stipend Reimbursement.
• RealTime matches employee 401K contributions at 100% of the first 3% invested and 50% of the next 2% invested.