Azure Healthcare Cloud Engineer

Optimum Healthcare IT provides healthcare-focused information technology services. The Azure Healthcare Cloud Engineer will design, implement, and manage Azure public cloud solutions for healthcare customers, including mission-critical EHR workloads. The role partners with clients, leadership, and sales teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures and migrations.

Responsibilities:

• Support healthcare organizations with their adoption of Azure’s public cloud including complex areas like EHR, data analytics, AI, ML, and containers
• Work with clients to understand their requirements and engineer suitable solutions
• Work with the Sales team to articulate key benefits of Hosting and Cloud technology to clients
• Keep up to date on technology innovation within Azure’s many services
• Engineer, deploy & maintain Cloud solutions including a variety of services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
• Lead customer design efforts to ensure technology appropriately meets business needs
• Ensure proper integration between a customer’s software applications and infrastructure architecture
• Ensure solutions are maintained for high availability, scalability, security, and supportability
• Oversee information systems security safeguards for these cloud solutions
• Develop detailed implementation plans for implementing cloud solutions including establishing key milestones and finalizing budget/scope
• Assist with executing system validation and preparing the organization for transition
• Creation of Infrastructure-as-Code to automate client deployments and increase repeatability
• Contributing to the creation of Statement of Work (SOW) documents

Requirements:

• Healthcare IT experience required!
• 6+ years of experience in a solutions architect or similar role; 4+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures
• 2+ years of healthcare IT related experience
• Degree in any related field or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of cloud computing technology and infrastructure as well as experience designing and migrating applications to the cloud
• Experience with Healthcare Applications and enterprise EHRs
• Experience supporting both Microsoft and Open-Source operating systems
• Understanding of hybrid cloud environments
• Hands on experience with establishing net new/green field cloud environments
• Experience with the full life cycle of a cloud migration
• Experience with architecture and automation of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as Service capabilities including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, data services etc
• Advanced skills diagnosing and resolving issues independently and as part of a team
• Experience with Continuous Deployment, Automation, Chef, Puppet, with Open-Source tools (e.g., Jenkins) and Azure DevOps
• Understanding of cloud-based data analytics solutions
• Azure Architect certifications are a major plus!
• A passion for leveraging technology
• Experience using, deploying, or operating Epic (roles like ECSA, ODBA, etc.)
• Experience with other Clouds like AWS and GCP
• Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud networking architecture
• Experience with SaaS/Cloud protection solutions (e.g., CASB)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database systems
• Information systems security certification (e.g. Security +, CISSP)
• Experience with consulting engagements
• Kubernetes/AKS experience
• HPC experience
• AI/ML Experience