Principal Infrastructure Design Engineer

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

8d•Remote

About The Position

Responsible for leading the engineering of various and complex aspects of cloud hosted infrastructures which include network, compute, storage, platform, global policies, IAM, Security controls, IAC and pipelines. Lead the analysis of current and future requirements to effectively design infrastructure, while determining design feasibility from both technical and economic perspectives. Develop and maintain technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with service partners as needed. Coordinate the compilation and analysis of operational data and directs proof of technology to establish standard for new designs or modifications to existing systems, or processes. As subject matter expert, partner and consult with varied technical, business, project and management staff to identify and plan, assess cloud infrastructure designs, requirements and impacts and resolve complex design problems. Coordinate the planning and development of highly complex engineering designs in support of the implementation AWS Public Cloud Own and maintain technology currency and capacity planning in support of established SLAs. Define governance framework and performance standards. As cross functional, multi-disciplinary infrastructure SME, provide expertise and knowledge in emerging technologies with strategic technology vendors Provide leadership directions within the environment. Proactively provide information and ongoing consultation for IT and business areas as well as vendors directly or indirectly affected by public cloud infrastructures. Lead the detailed infrastructure design of larger and/or more complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners. Provide operational readiness through the engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance and tuning analysis, systems support, incident and problem resolution, and upgrades. Provide detailed guidance and consultation in solutioning more complex and/or high visibility production incidents when required. Maintain appropriate standardized guidelines, work procedures and schedules for solution engineering within the environment to expedite workflow and ultimately improve efficiencies. Build collaborative relationships with the broader architecture community to effectively maintain technical roadmaps and provide input into strategies and standards related to area of specialization. Lead collaboration with vendors on infrastructure designs to ensure the final product is what was architected or designed. Regularly act in a project lead capacity and/or represent the department on enterprise-wide project teams. Organize and lead new technology briefings with IT and Enterprise leadership at varied leadership forums. Provide direction and assistance to less experienced team members and may oversee or coordinate work efforts as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
8+ years of experience in related field.
In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.

Responsibilities

Leading the engineering of various and complex aspects of cloud hosted infrastructures which include network, compute, storage, platform, global policies, IAM, Security controls, IAC and pipelines.
Leading the analysis of current and future requirements to effectively design infrastructure, while determining design feasibility from both technical and economic perspectives.
Developing and maintaining technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with service partners as needed.
Coordinating the compilation and analysis of operational data and directs proof of technology to establish standard for new designs or modifications to existing systems, or processes.
Partnering and consulting with varied technical, business, project and management staff to identify and plan, assess cloud infrastructure designs, requirements and impacts and resolve complex design problems.
Coordinating the planning and development of highly complex engineering designs in support of the implementation AWS Public Cloud
Owning and maintaining technology currency and capacity planning in support of established SLAs.
Defining governance framework and performance standards.
Providing expertise and knowledge in emerging technologies with strategic technology vendors
Providing leadership directions within the environment.
Proactively providing information and ongoing consultation for IT and business areas as well as vendors directly or indirectly affected by public cloud infrastructures.
Leading the detailed infrastructure design of larger and/or more complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners.
Providing operational readiness through the engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance and tuning analysis, systems support, incident and problem resolution, and upgrades.
Providing detailed guidance and consultation in solutioning more complex and/or high visibility production incidents when required.
Maintaining appropriate standardized guidelines, work procedures and schedules for solution engineering within the environment to expedite workflow and ultimately improve efficiencies.
Building collaborative relationships with the broader architecture community to effectively maintain technical roadmaps and provide input into strategies and standards related to area of specialization.
Leading collaboration with vendors on infrastructure designs to ensure the final product is what was architected or designed.
Regularly acting in a project lead capacity and/or represent the department on enterprise-wide project teams.
Organizing and leading new technology briefings with IT and Enterprise leadership at varied leadership forums.
Providing direction and assistance to less experienced team members and may oversee or coordinate work efforts as needed.