IT Senior Cloud Engineer - Remote

Mayo Clinic is a top-ranked healthcare provider dedicated to patient care and employee development. They are seeking a Senior IT Cloud Engineer to shape their multi-cloud strategy, focusing on designing and building cloud control plane solutions while leading engineering teams and mentoring talent.

Responsibilities:

• Control Plane Architecture: Design and implement cloud control plane solutions, including orchestration frameworks, governance layers, and automation pipelines
• Integrated Developer Platform (IDP): Build components that enable developer self-service, automated workflows, and streamlined experiences
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Develop and maintain Terraform modules and automation workflows for consistent, secure deployments
• Automation & APIs: Create APIs and automation tools for resource management and governance
• Security & Compliance: Embed policy-as-code, enforce guardrails, and maintain RBAC compliance
• Monitoring & Observability: Integrate cloud-native services with centralized logging and alerting platforms
• Leadership: Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years' demonstrated technical experience and 1 year of demonstrated leadership experience, or Associate's degree with 7 years' experience and 1 year of demonstrated leadership experience, or HS/GED with 9 years of experience and 1 years' of demonstrated leadership experience in a large, complex organization like Mayo Clinic may be considered in lieu of the degree
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple environments including cloud and on-premise, and multiple operating systems
• Functional understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies
• Working knowledge of the practical application of engineering and technology including applying principles, techniques, procedures, hardware and tools to the design and production of various products and services
• Working knowledge of data center design best practices
• Knowledge of and ability to apply DevOps principles and ways of working
• Ability to develop and deliver requirements, concepts of operations, use cases, demonstrations, and presentations to both one-to-one and in small groups
• Knowledge of approaches, tools, and techniques for anticipating, recognizing, managing, and resolving technical (hardware, software, application, or operational) problems
• Ability to effectively communicate with and present to senior management and executive stakeholders (e.g., IT Leadership)
• Certification in cloud engineering is required
• Proven experience designing and building cloud control plane solutions, including orchestration and scalability best practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Strong Terraform and IaC skills; scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience
• Familiarity with Spacelift
• Experience building Integrated Developer Platforms (IDP)
• Exposure to Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Vault, and CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Background in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare)