Infrastructure & Middleware Engineer
Requisition ID
547553
Category
Information Technology
Location
United States - NJ, Iselin
Location: Hybrid
Medidata follows a hybrid office policy in which employees who are hired for an in-person position are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week in accordance with Company policy.
About our Company:
Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than thirty six thousand trials and 11 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million users trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. Discover more at www.medidata.com.
About the Team:
The Infrastructure & Middleware Engineer is the operational backbone of Clinical Informatics Services. In this role, your primary focus is DevOps excellence: automating infrastructure provisioning, ensuring high availability, and optimizing deployment pipelines.
You will champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and ensure our teams can deploy software efficiently and reliably.
Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design and management of AWS resources using Terraform, ensuring all environments are reproducible and version-controlled.
- CI/CD & Release Engineering: Own the automated build and release pipelines, optimizing them for speed and reliability to support rapid development cycles.
- System Monitoring & Observability: Build comprehensive Grafana dashboards and alert systems to monitor infrastructure health, focusing on proactive issue detection rather than reactive fixing.
- Container Orchestration: Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters and Dockerized applications, ensuring efficient resource utilization and uptime.
- Automation Scripting: Automate manual operational tasks (backups, patching, log rotation).
- Middleware Development: Develop and maintain Python-based middleware services as needed to ensure data flows correctly between internal components.
- Database Reliability: ensure the stability, security, and performance of data storage systems (MongoDB, RDS), handling backups and disaster recovery planning.
Qualifications:
- DevOps Mindset: You view operations as a software problem, preferring code-based solutions (IaC) over manual configuration.
- Operational Stability: You prioritize uptime, security, and scalability above all else.
- Python Proficiency: You are comfortable writing production-level Python code, not just for scripts, but for backend services when required.
- Root Cause Analysis: You excel at debugging complex infrastructure incidents, analyzing logs, and implementing long-term fixes.
- Mid-Level Autonomy: You can independently scope and execute infrastructure projects (e.g., "Migrate this service to Kubernetes") with minimal hand-holding.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience:
- 3–5 years of professional experience in DevOps practice
- 2+ years of specific experience with Terraform in a production AWS environment.
- 3+ years of Python scripting and development experience.
- Technical Stack Proficiency:
- Core DevOps: Terraform (Must Have), Github Actions, AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch.
- Languages: Python (Required).
- Databases: MongoDB, SQL, or similar technologies
As with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the NYC Metro Area is $96,000-$128,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the California Bay Area is $101,250-$135,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in the Boston Metro Area is $94,500-126,000.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in Texas or Ohio is $84,375-$112,500.
The salary range for positions that will be physically based in all other locations within the United States is $85,500-$114,000.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; flexible paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.
Note: Please be on the lookout for job scams. Medidata recruiters will never ask applicants for monetary compensation, credit card, or banking details.
Equal Employment Opportunity:In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Medidata are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Medidata is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Medidata will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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