AI/Cloud & Java Support Engineer III
Location: Smyrna, Georgia
Country: United States
Category: LIMS
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: May 8, 2026
Job ID: 647272
Job Description
AI/Cloud & Java Application Support Engineer III - (Contract) - Central Time Hours
Global Biotech organization seeks an AI/Cloud & Java Application Support Engineer III for a 6-month remote contract with likely extensions working central time hours. This individual will have a minimum of 8+ years working within complex applications to include analytics platforms and data pipelines, and within a regulatory environment. The ideal candidate will have expertise in creating/training AI models to improve complex troubleshooting, automation, and monitoring of organizational product sets. This person must possess a thorough understanding of infrastructure for integrations encompassing Oracle, AWS, Datadog, JIRA, Confluence, Java Code base, and possibly Kafka, based on need. Advanced technical capabilities to troubleshoot mission critical cloud-based applications and data platforms in a regulated environment using various engineering practices and AI assisted operational tools (AIOps, observability intelligence, and AI Copilots) are also required. Lastly, this requires strong hands-on experience in Java (Spring Framework), Python, and SQL/MySQL, with regulatory experience in HIPAA, PHI, SOC or similar. Opportunity offers a complex contract opportunity to truly influence the operations of a well-known company and a long-term contract that will likely extend.
Benefits
- Ideally $80 - $90/hr. W2 or $90 - $100/hr. 1099 based on consultant seniority and experience.
- A 6-month remote contract with likely extensions.
- The opportunity to work within a well-known genomic organization on meaningful and complex projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar
- Located in the US with the ability to work Central Time hours
- 8+ years of hands-on Application Support, Production Troubleshooting, and Software/Systems Engineering Cloud Environments.
- 8+ years of hands-on Java (Spring Framework), Python, SQL/MySQL
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted, distributed systems within a regulated environment like HIPAA, PHI, SOC, or similar.
- Proven expertise in analyzing complex systems to then drive issue resolution with little guidance.
- Expertise supporting Analytics Platforms, Data Pipelines, or LIMS.
AI Requirements:
- Experience with AI and AIOps to include using AI enabled monitoring, logging and observability tools like anomaly detection, and automated alert correlation.
- Familiarity with AIOps concepts like Noise Reduction, Event Correlation, and Predictive Performance Analysis.
- Comfort working with AI systems as decision support tools.
- Expertise with AI assisted engineering tools to include hands-on AI powered development/troubleshooting tools (code assistants, log analysis, etc.).
- Expertise in evaluating AI-generated output and applying engineering logic to this.
- Prior experience working with Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP
- Expertise using Observability Tooling (metrics, logs, traces), CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows, and Ticketing/ITSM platforms like ServiceNow/Jira.
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