Senior Cloud Engineer

Elevance Health • Mason, OH

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for delivery of end-to-end application, system development and maintenance on complex multi technology platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments.

Requirements

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years related experience
• multi-dimensional platform experience
• expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading multiple small projects and providing troubleshooting support is preferred.
• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, networking or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role preferred.
• 5 years with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, APIGateways, Storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc.
• 5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred.
• 5 years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible and Packer).
• 5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies preferred.
• 3 years of experience with Jenkins, GitLab.
• 1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers/ Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines.
• Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards.
• Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking.
• Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations.
• Automates management of cloud networks (VPC/VNet), Transit Gateways, DNS, Onpremise Connections, Load balancers, Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications.
• Automates management of cloud security controls - NSGs, IAM roles, policies, etc. to comply with Elevance Health standards.
• Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components.
• Leads the ITIL processes - incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross-functional teams.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• May own technical testing to ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed, and system is implemented according to plan.
• Assesses status and supports data information planning.
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
• Will begin to set direction at the project/service level and influences decision-making.
• Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs of the technical solutions.
• Identifies and propose strategies around technical problems affecting team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions.
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues.
• Supports vendor evaluation.

Benefits

• In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
• We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees