Cloud Engineer (Vulnerability, Patching, and Hardening)

Ovation Healthcare • Greensboro, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Welcome to Ovation Healthcare! At Ovation Healthcare (formerly QHR Health), we’ve been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions. The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare’s vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior. We’re looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork. Ovation Healthcare’s corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit www.ovationhc.com . General summary: Performs hands-on vulnerability remediation and hardening activities for cloud workloads and cloud configuration standards. Coordinates patching and image hygiene for cloud-hosted systems, supports closure validation using Qualys Vulnerability Management where applicable, and ensures measurable compliance outcomes.

Requirements

• Four or more years of direct, hands-on cloud engineering experience supporting production workloads.
• Demonstrated experience implementing secure configurations and hardening in cloud environments.
• Working familiarity with Qualys Vulnerability Management workflows and closure validation concepts.
• Reliable high-speed internet connection is required for all remote/hybrid positions.
• Must have access to stable Wi-Fi with sufficient bandwidth to support video conferencing, cloud-based tools, and other online work-related activities.
• A HIPAA-compliant work environment is required, including a secure workspace free from unauthorized access or interruptions, no use of public Wi-Fi unless connected through a secure company-provided VPN, and compliance with all applicable HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Hospital information technology experience strongly preferred; broader healthcare experience preferred.
• Certifications highly desirable: Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Support remediation for cloud workloads including image updates, operating system patch coordination for cloud-hosted servers, and configuration remediation.
• Implement cloud hardening standards including identity and access controls, logging and monitoring configuration, encryption settings, network segmentation controls, and secure configuration baselines.
• Review Qualys Vulnerability Management findings and partner with server administrators to drive closure validation and reporting for cloud-hosted assets.
• Support remediation of cloud misconfigurations identified through security and compliance assessments.
• Maintain metrics for remediation progress, vulnerability aging for cloud assets, and hardening compliance; support service level agreement reporting.
• Document repeatable remediation patterns and contribute to standard build and hardening approaches.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed