Cloud Engineer IV

Premera is committed to being a workplace where people feel empowered to grow, innovate, and lead with purpose. By investing in our employees and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous development, we’re able to better serve our customers. It’s this commitment that has earned us recognition as one of the best companies to work for.
* Advise and act as a resource for complex systems projects, evaluate requirements, and ensure work aligns with overall systems strategy and direction.
* Proactively conceptualize and champion high-value business solutions in anticipation of customers’ needs; implement new cloud solutions.
* Maintain regular contact with customer departments (cross-org) throughout the development lifecycle to ensure cloud infrastructure is efficiently utilized.
* Provide mentorship, orientation, guidance, best practices, techniques, documentation, and training to junior/advanced engineers for all relevant cloud technologies.
* Navigate the appropriate maintenance schedules for system upgrades and safely decommission/retire outdated systems.
* Design, implement, and support the company's internal AI services.
* Consult and support AI Engineers.
* Develop and build automation for new systems solutions for complex, integrated systems, develop standards and requirements for system alignment and incorporate best practices, and review and provide feedback on solutions developed by outside teams for implications on other systems.
* Implement cloud infrastructure/platform solutions, including enabling enterprise cloud services, network configurations, compute/storage, and other services.
* Define, drive, and implement available cloud services for customers that demonstrate alignment with business goals.
* Identify trends and requirements for future system operational and functional needs to determine support requirements as well as purchasing efforts.
* Serve as an advanced technical resource for moderate to complex system projects, evaluate requirements, and ensure work aligns with overall project plan.
* Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of cloud infrastructure to meet future customer demands and to perform efficiently under varying loads.
* Develop integration tools for existing on-prem systems migrating to cloud services (e.g., equivalent services) including identifying dependencies and tools for seamless interoperability.
* Implement various full-stack deployment capabilities that leverage automation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment pipelines for cloud and infrastructure services (e.g., virtual machines, storage solutions, services, databases, network, etc.).
* Leverage automation to configure cloud services to meet specific needs of the enterprise and reduce cognitive load including service optimization, performance, templates, capacity, cost efficiency, and security.
* Prepare modules with complex integration considerations for production and design and build automated deployment pipelines to the cloud platform for continuous and proactive maintenance, monitoring/alerting of service performance for cloud operations to stay current and identify and address potential standard or interoperability issues before impacting business operations.
* Lead design and development of processes and tools to improve long-term performance and capacity of cloud systems, review implications of multiple inter-related processes, and identify opportunities to optimize performance, capacity, and increase automation.
* Design, build, and implement secure and compliant cloud solutions via automation (Dev Sec Ops /Sec Dev Ops ) including reusable components, configuring complex, integrated solutions to protect cloud infrastructure and customer data (e.g., firewalls, encryption, identity and access management, intrusion detection, cloud governance, etc.).
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or (4) years of work experience.* (6) years of applicable systems engineering or related experience.
* Advanced skill in cloud design and operations including system optimizations: automation, scaling, right-sizing, resiliency, availability, multi-region.
* Advanced skill in…