Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

$78,000 - $128,000/Yr

Highmark Health - Juneau, AK

Full-time - Senior

Juneau, AK

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About the position

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer who will play a pivotal role in advocating for cloud technology and providing the necessary engineering support to drive the organization's next-generation technologies. This senior-level position is responsible for adopting, expanding, maintaining, and optimizing cloud usage across the organization. The incumbent will own the support and engineering of cloud solutions, ensuring they stay current with new cloud offerings to meet corporate objectives effectively. The Senior Cloud Operations Engineer will engineer and implement cloud-based technical architectures, develop migration approaches, and deploy cloud resources while optimizing applications through automation technologies. This role involves defining cloud resource procurement and performance patterns by monitoring usage trends to enhance cloud spending and resource efficiency. The engineer will propose innovative ideas and solutions to lead engineers and management in furthering cloud service utilization and optimization. Additionally, the incumbent will develop automation scripts and repeatable patterns to facilitate application and service teams in deploying software and services into cloud environments. They will conduct research and analysis for new cloud deployment proposals and modifications to existing services, providing sound recommendations for the best course of action. The role also includes Level 3 incident, problem, and change management responsibilities related to cloud operations engineering, along with mentoring and training less senior Cloud Operation Engineers. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Responsibilities

• Engineer & implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, deployment of cloud resources and application optimizations that utilize automation technologies and enable business objectives.
• Define cloud resource procurement and performance patterns through monitoring and tracking of usage and trends to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency.
• Propose ideas, designs, and solutions to lead engineers and management to further cloud service utilization and optimization.
• Develop automation scripts and other repeatable patterns to enable application and service teams to deploy software and services into cloud environments.
• Perform research and analysis required for new cloud deployment proposals, existing cloud service modification, and other new cloud adoption to provide sound recommendations on best course of action.
• Manage Level 3 incident, problem and change management as it pertains to the responsibilities of the cloud operations engineering team.
• Provide general mentorship and periodic training of less senior Cloud Operation Engineers.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Cloud Computing, Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or closely related discipline.
• 5 years of experience with at least two modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell, etc.).
• Experience providing operational support of at least two of the following Cloud Service Providers: Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Oracle.
• Experience producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures through automation tools like Terraform or Ansible and versioning control via GitLab or similar tools.
• Required certification in GCP, AWS, Azure or other Cloud Service Certification.

Nice-to-haves

• 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).
• Preferred certification in Terraform, Ansible or other similar tools.