Senior Cloud Engineer

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Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for delivery of end-to-end application, system development and maintenance on a complex multi-technology platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments.

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Preferred

Location:

Chicago, IL;
Atlanta, GA;
Dallas, TX

• 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 proposes 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.

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years related experience; multi-dimensional platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading multiple small projects and providing troubleshooting support is preferred.
• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, networking or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role preferred.
• 5 years of experience with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, APIGateways, Storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc.
• 5 years with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred.
• 5 years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible and Packer).
• 5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages.
• Experience with Agile and Dev Ops methodologies preferred.
• 3 years of experience with Jenkins, Git Lab.
• 1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers/ Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions.

Non-Management Exempt

1st Shift (United States of America)

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