Senior Staff Cloud Engineer

HCA Healthcare•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The Senior Staff Cloud Engineer builds relationships with HCA ITG leaders, project managers, enterprise architects, and technical teams to deliver products and services in accordance with industry best practices and HCA policies. The role defines, architects, and enables cloud services and solutions, with a focus on infrastructure as code across a multi-tiered, multi-cloud strategy involving Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. The engineer provides technical leadership and expertise across cloud architecture, implementation, deployment, operations, governance, and migration of complex multi-tier applications. The position also develops and documents enterprise standards and reusable configuration management components, supports high availability and disaster recovery designs, and educates business units and engineering teams on cloud best practices. The role collaborates with security and enterprise architecture, application product teams, privacy teams, business partners, vendors, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 13 years of experience with a core background spanning at least two IT disciplines, such as technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or operations; alternatively, at least 5 years of experience deploying and supporting critical applications on a cloud solution in a senior engineer role for a mid-sized organization or larger.
Knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features, including operating systems, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, and elastic scalability.
Knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes.
Knowledge of cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture.
Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.

Nice To Haves

Architect-level cloud certification in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Experience as a team lead.
Experience with multiple cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

Build relationships with HCA ITG leaders, project managers, enterprise architects, and technical teams to deliver products and services.
Define, architect, and enable cloud services and solutions across a multi-tiered, multi-cloud strategy, with a focus on infrastructure as code.
Provide leadership by researching and explaining decisions, alternatives, trade-offs, and recommendations.
Apply knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation, including operating systems, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, and elastic scalability.
Serve as a subject matter expert and educator on end-to-end cloud architecture, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Maintain knowledge of industry trends, technologies, and cloud solutions; research emerging technologies across cloud and edge environments.
Develop solutions and evaluate architectural alternatives for public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
Define design patterns and solutions for application high availability and disaster recovery.
Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
Ensure solutions meet technical, functional, and non-functional requirements and are delivered within committed time frames.
Diagnose and resolve technical issues, provide workarounds, and escalate issues to service owners when needed.
Work with project sponsors to size and manage project scope and risk.
Provide technical governance and expertise for cloud architecture, deployment, and operations.
Develop, document, and manage enterprise technical standards with the Cloud Center of Excellence for cloud technology use, deployment, support, and governance.
Lead or participate in designing, developing, and testing infrastructure-as-code solutions for IaaS and PaaS on-premises or cloud platforms.
Partner with cloud vendors to provide feedback and influence product roadmaps.
Create installation and configuration guides, design and engineering plans, operational procedures, lessons learned, diagrams, systems administration and setup documentation, and hardware integration test plans and results.
Educate HCA business units and mentor engineers and developers on cloud technology best practices.
Migrate complex, multi-tier applications to public cloud.
Design, optimize, and document cloud platform operations.
Work with customers to develop robust, reusable configuration management components.

Benefits

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine coverage.
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
Paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, based on years of service.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan and flexible spending accounts.
Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
Fertility and family-building benefits and adoption assistance.
Life insurance and supplemental health protection plans.
Auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.