Operations (Cloud Engineering)

Highmark Health

This job is a strong advocate of cloud technology and engineering support necessary to drive the organization's next-generation technologies. The intermediate level incumbent works to adopt, expand, maintain, and optimize cloud usage across the organization through engineering support of cloud technologies and through automation builds and related technologies. The incumbent owns support and engineering of cloud solutions and must stay current with new cloud offerings to continue to produce expected corporate results.

Engineer & implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, deployment of cloud resources and application optimizations that utilize automation technologies, sound redundant solutions and enable business objectives.

Works to define cloud resource procurement and performance patterns throughmonitoring and tracking of usage and trends to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency.

Proposes ideas, designs, and solutions to senior or lead engineers to further cloud service utilization and optimization.

Develops automation scripts and other repeatable patterns to enable application and service teams to deploy software and services into cloud environments.

Performs research and analysis required for new cloud deployment proposals, existing cloud service modification, and other new cloud adoption to ultimately provide sound recommendations on best course of action.

Level 2 Incident, problem and change management as it pertains to the responsibilities of the cloud operations engineering team.

Develop documentation to support operations process, procedures and implementations.

Bachelor's Degree in Cloud Computing, Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or closely related discipline

3 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell etc.)

~ Experience doing operational support of at least one of the following cloud service providers for an organization:Google Cloud Platform, Azure or Amazon Web Services.

Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures through automation tools like Terraform or Ansible for example and versioning control via GitLab or similar tools.

Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management

Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

GCP, AWS, Azure or other Cloud Service Certification

Ability to speak and write English fluently and idiomatically.

Strong scripting experience along with interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed.

Knowledge of infrastructure concepts, such as OS, Virtualization or Networking

Language (Other than English):

Travel Requirement:

Office-based

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Physical work site required

It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Compliance Requirement : This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.

As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company's Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.

This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.

Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate's qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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