Platform Engineer

Celebrating 40+ years!

Theradex Oncology is a full-service CRO specializing in oncology.

The company manages global oncology trials and programs.

The company was founded in 1982 working with the National Cancer Institute, which led to its expansion to working with industry sponsors developing cancer therapeutics.

As a service-based company we support both domestic and international sponsors in the conduct of both early and late phase trials.

Platform Engineer - AWS Certified Professional - Princeton, NJ (Hybrid) - Will consider regionally remote candidates.

We're looking for a highly motivated Platform Engineer to help us build and improve our cloud infrastructure in AWS.

Initially this role will focus highly on DevOps related tasks.

As the team matures, the role will grow to encompass broader platform engineering responsibilities, like IDPs and self-service features for developers.

​ ​ Key Responsibilities ​

The primary responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead upfront technical alignment by conducting architecture and deployment readiness reviews with application teams to ensure requirements, dependencies, and assumptions are clearly understood before implementation and release
• Design platform solutions with operability and supportability as first‑class concerns, including clear success criteria, failure handling, rollback strategies, and defined ownership
• Act as a primary technical communication bridge between application development and infrastructure teams, providing clear, timely updates and ensuring shared understanding including security and compliance throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Proactively identify and surface technical and security risks early in the delivery lifecycle and work with application teams to address them prior to deployment rather than reactively post‑release
• Troubleshoot technical problems, support incident management and provide root cause analysis
• Work closely with IT, Business and Vendor teams
• Assist in modernizing on-prem legacy applications in AWS
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for application builds, testing, and deployment
• Automate application deployment workflows targeting AWS services, with an emphasis on reliability and repeatability