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Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our clients to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact, touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at UST.com.\nSummary:\nUST is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and ship features for a cloud-hosted platform. The ideal candidate writes production-quality Python, packages services in containers, and deploys them on AWS using blue/green release strategies, working across the full delivery lifecycle from design through to operation.\nThe Opportunity:\nJob Description\nDesign, develop, and maintain backend services and features, packaging them as containers and running them on AWS ECS and Fargate. You will define infrastructure with Terraform, plan and support blue/green deployments with rollback readiness, and automate build, test, and deployment stages with Harness pipelines. 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