Highmark Health - Providence, RI
posted 4 months ago
The Cloud Operation Engineer at Highmark Health is a pivotal role that champions cloud technology and engineering support essential for advancing the organization's next-generation technologies. This intermediate-level position is responsible for adopting, expanding, maintaining, and optimizing cloud usage across the organization. The incumbent will provide engineering support for cloud technologies and automation builds, ensuring that the organization can leverage cloud solutions effectively. Staying current with new cloud offerings is crucial to meet corporate objectives and deliver expected results. In this role, the engineer will be tasked with engineering and implementing cloud-based technical architectures, migration strategies, and deployment of cloud resources. They will also focus on application optimizations that utilize automation technologies and sound redundant solutions to meet business objectives. A significant part of the job involves defining cloud resource procurement and performance patterns by monitoring and tracking usage trends to optimize cloud spending and resource efficiency. The Cloud Operation Engineer will propose innovative ideas, designs, and solutions to senior or lead engineers to enhance cloud service utilization and optimization. They will develop automation scripts and repeatable patterns to facilitate application and service teams in deploying software and services into cloud environments. Additionally, the role includes conducting research and analysis for new cloud deployment proposals and existing service modifications, ultimately providing sound recommendations for the best course of action. The engineer will also handle Level 2 incident, problem, and change management related to cloud operations, develop documentation to support operational processes, and perform other duties as assigned.