Staff Network Cloud Engineer

$128,600 - $128,600/Yr

Inovalon - Bowie, MD

Full-time - Senior

Bowie, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building. Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare's greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve. The Staff Network Engineer - Cloud position will focus on defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for Inovalon's commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake. This role requires a good understanding of Network, Gateway, and Firewall infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. The right candidate will have proven experience in commercial on-prem and cloud Network design, DevOps, and the knowledge and interpersonal skills to help guide teams to improve their site-reliability. This position will split time between developing commercial cloud governance and standards, defining and implementing platform-level features, and supporting application engineering teams with application design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and enforce governance and standards for commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake.
• Apply commercial cloud best practices to design, develop, and implement AWS, Azure, and GCP platform-level features.
• Design, build, and administer ASA FTD firewalls as well as on-prem ACI infrastructure.
• Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Collaborate with application engineering teams to create, monitor, and troubleshoot system infrastructure.
• Be an expert in service reliability, sustainability, and efficiency, collaborating with product, application engineering, and security teams to ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements.
• Investigate, design, and implement best-in-industry, innovative technologies that will expand Inovalon's infrastructure through robust, scalable solutions.
• Champion the enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy.
• Develop and execute designs for complex systems backed by excellence, confidence, and thorough engineering analysis.
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage the Network and Firewall infrastructure to drive automation, improvement, and performance.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon's policies, procedures, and mission statement.
• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon's Operating Policies and Procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10+ years experience as a Network Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, services, and infrastructure operations of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or Snowflake.
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Terraform, or similar.
• Scripting experience with Terraform, Linux Shell, PowerShell, Python, or others.
• Expert troubleshooter with a drive to solve difficult problems with scalable, elegant, and maintainable solutions.
• A penchant for thinking outside the box to solve complex and interesting problems.
• Impeccable creative and communication skills.
• 8+ years of experience with Networking, complex computing platforms, and/or cutting-edge technologies involving virtualization, distribution, and high-performance Networks.
• Manage stressful situations with calm, courtesy, and confidence.

Nice-to-haves

• Extensive scripting experience strongly desired.