Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

• Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines
• Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards
• Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking
• Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations
• Automates management of cloud networks (VPC/VNet), Transit Gateways, DNS, Onpremise Connections, Load balancers, Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications
• Automates management of cloud security controls
• NSGs, IAM roles, policies, etc. to comply with Elevance Health standards
• Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components
• Leads the ITIL processes
• incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary
• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings
• Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross-functional teams
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• May own technical testing to ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed, and system is implemented according to plan
• Assesses status and supports data information planning
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system
• Will begin to set direction at the project/service level and influences decision-making
• Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs of the technical solutions
• Identifies and propose strategies around technical problems affecting team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues
• Supports vendor evaluation

Requirements

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
• Minimum of 5 years related experience; multi-dimensional platform experience
• Expert level experience with business and technical applications
• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading multiple small projects preferred
• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, networking or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role preferred
• 5 years with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, APIGateways, Storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc.
• 5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred
• 5 years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible and Packer)
• 5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies preferred
• 3 years of experience with Jenkins, GitLab
• 1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers/ Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Packer
• Python
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution
• merit increases
• paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• medical benefits
• dental benefits
• vision benefits
• short and long term disability benefits
• stock purchase plan
• life insurance
• wellness programs
• financial education resources