Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system committed to reimagining healthcare. They are seeking a DevOps Cloud Engineer to provide technical expertise in establishing and optimizing a continuous build and release environment, as well as to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise and leadership in establishing and optimizing a continuous build and release environment to accelerate software delivery
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (YAML scripting), Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, Vault, and Terraform Enterprise
- Develop, test, and maintain build and deployment automation scripts to streamline and standardize release processes
- Author, optimize, and troubleshoot GitHub Actions workflows in YAML to support multi-environment build, test, and deployment operations
- Design, develop, and implement tools, services, workflows, and processes to ensure highly available and efficient DevOps pipelines
- Participate in code, design, and product reviews to uphold quality standards and encourage best practices
- Build, configure, and administer instances and services across cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure) for development, testing, and production workloads
- Script, test, and deploy new versions of applications, databases, and infrastructure components in the cloud
- Establish and maintain infrastructure monitoring and management processes using automation frameworks
- Troubleshoot and debug issues within GCP or other cloud infrastructure
- Apply Agile principles to plan, track, and deliver work using Jira or similar tools
- Analyze complex problems, recommend solutions, and implement improvements leveraging deep technical and theoretical expertise
- Define and implement strategies for networking, servers, platforms, and security that support enterprise systems
- Manage cloud infrastructure provisioning, cost optimization, and capacity planning
Requirements:
- Provide technical expertise and leadership in establishing and optimizing a continuous build and release environment to accelerate software delivery
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (YAML scripting), Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, Vault, and Terraform Enterprise
- Develop, test, and maintain build and deployment automation scripts to streamline and standardize release processes
- Author, optimize, and troubleshoot GitHub Actions workflows in YAML to support multi-environment build, test, and deployment operations
- Design, develop, and implement tools, services, workflows, and processes to ensure highly available and efficient DevOps pipelines
- Participate in code, design, and product reviews to uphold quality standards and encourage best practices
- Build, configure, and administer instances and services across cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure) for development, testing, and production workloads
- Script, test, and deploy new versions of applications, databases, and infrastructure components in the cloud
- Establish and maintain infrastructure monitoring and management processes using automation frameworks
- Troubleshoot and debug issues within GCP or other cloud infrastructure
- Apply Agile principles to plan, track, and deliver work using Jira or similar tools
- Analyze complex problems, recommend solutions, and implement improvements leveraging deep technical and theoretical expertise
- Define and implement strategies for networking, servers, platforms, and security that support enterprise systems
- Manage cloud infrastructure provisioning, cost optimization, and capacity planning
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required
- Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (including advanced YAML scripting), Jenkins, and JFrog Artifactory
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or Azure) and cloud-native services
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and deployment tasks
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or collaboratively
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira
- Serve customers as a key point of contact
- Manage customer expectations and ensures prompt and complete customer service
- Form productive networks with internal and external customers and the vendor community
- Produce project plans, RFP's, and RFI's
- Customize presentations to the interests of the audience
- Conduct diagnosis of most business problems
- Design, direct and perform analyses to resolve complex first-time project issues including analysis of technical and economic feasibility of proposed system solutions
- Design projects with broad implications requiring systems integration of one or more technical platforms
- Lead design sessions by presenting logical statements of business problems and designs
- Participate in the design of technical requirements for the application/solution
- Serve as a staff resource and mentor regarding understanding of architectural systems