Senior Cloud Engineer

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at ;br>
Job Function:
Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:
Platform/Cloud Engineering

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic Cloud team, located in Raritan, New Jersey to support our public cloud infrastructure for Johnson & Johnson globally.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. That's why for more than 135 years, we have aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. Learn more at

Every day, our more than 130,000 employees globally are building a world where complex diseases are prevented and cured, treatments are smarter and less invasive-and solutions are personal.

Role Overview

The Senior Cloud Engineer role is part of Johnson & Johnson public cloud organization. In this role you will be part of a dev/sec/ops team with responsibilities focusing on designing, implementing, and managing cloud solutions that support our business applications. The role will collaborate closely with business application owners and technical product owners to ensure optimum performance, security, and scalability of our cloud infrastructure.

The Senior Cloud Engineer will also have opportunities to create technical solutions, software designs, security policies and operational optimizations. The candidate should be passionate about developing cloud infrastructure patterns, associated security and compliance guardrails, and automations to meet application hosting requirements. Driving the maturity of the AWS service, the Senior Engineer is responsible for creating reference architectures, solution designs, roadmaps, backlog management and value realization of projects and capabilities. This role will actively engage with server, database and application teams as well as AWS external specialists and forums to remain current on industry trends. The AWS Cloud Engineering team uses a combination of cloud-native services and custom-built software to deliver and support cloud capacities.

As a trusted leader in the Cloud Engineering team, your role will be uniquely positioned to work collaboratively with strategic external partners, global leaders and executives across the business and technology to passionately understand our technology needs, define and shape public cloud automation to align with technology needs and improve the overall reliability and performance of services offered.

The role is for an individual with strong technical background in public cloud, architecture, software engineering, product development, microservices, Python REST API based automations, CI/CD deployment pipelines, and multi-cloud solutions in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The qualified candidate should be an agile team player who is able to lead and participate on cross-functional teams, gain alignment and drive decision making with CLOUDx and application teams.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Consult, Architect, Design and implement public cloud solutions

• Provide engineering support for existing cloud infrastructures, ensuring reliability and performance.

• Collaborate with business applications owners to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.

• Work closely with technical product owners to inform strategic decisions regarding cloud architecture.

• Partner with application teams and drive resolution of sophisticated technical problems across infrastructure and application stack.

• Optimize and automate cloud operations and deployment practices.

• Monitor cloud environments and provide recommendations for improvements.

• Ensure security best practices are incorporated into cloud architecture.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and cloud technologies.

• Setup and drive projects crafted to reduce operating expenses and improve efficiencies

• Lead real-time troubleshooting sessions and manage DevOps issues and product enhancements

• Actively participate in all squad ceremonies; leads and optimizes the flow of value using various tools and reporting cadence

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• A minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with AWS or Azure engineering focusing cloud-native serverless services.

• 2+ years hands-on development experience in Python REST APIs

• 3+ years experience in programing and scripting languages.

• Must have experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and deployments like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager

• 3+ years system monitoring and observability platforms with cloud services

• Experience in supporting a global operations footprint and serving in the capacity of a Level 3 point of technical escalation and lead subject matter expert

• Excellent communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable public speaker and addressing small audiences.

• Self-starter with positive relationship abilities and customer service skills

• Technology thought leadership in the latest advances in the market, trends, and modern technology frameworks (e.g. Agile, DevOps)

• Strong understanding of platform thinking and global experience delivering global platforms while tailoring for regional/local markets

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center () or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$115,000 to $197,800

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington - up to 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below.