Sr. Systems Engineer

American Heart Association • Dallas, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The American Heart Association is hiring a Sr. Systems Engineer for its Business Technology team in Dallas, Texas. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Infrastructure & Operations, this role builds and maintains application infrastructure environments, primarily on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The engineer enables development teams to deploy applications efficiently and reliably through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, automation, and cloud-native solutions.

The position works with development teams, infrastructure engineers, cloud teams, and architects to create scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure that supports business objectives. It also provides operational support and contributes to infrastructure availability, performance, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

The Association describes a work-life harmonization culture and provides access to training and professional development through Heart U and other programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent job experience.
• At least 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Skills in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration.
• Knowledge of networking and security.
• Skills in monitoring and logging, automation and scripting, and version control systems.
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Technical documentation skills.
• Continuous learning mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable application infrastructure across Azure and AWS using Terraform, IaC, and reusable provisioning modules and templates.
• Deploy, configure, and manage cloud services, including compute, storage, databases, networking, load balancing, auto-scaling, content delivery, and container platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS ECS.
• Design and maintain cloud networking and security configurations, including VNets/VPCs, subnets, routing, network security groups, and supporting infrastructure controls.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
• Apply Azure and AWS Well-Architected and cloud adoption principles to infrastructure design, cloud migrations, application modernization, and architectural improvements.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and performance optimization to maintain availability, reliability, and application performance.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, adjusting infrastructure capacity to application demand and operational requirements.
• Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, security patching, and resilience capabilities for critical application environments.
• Partner with application development, Cloud, and architecture teams to define infrastructure requirements, integrate provisioning into deployment pipelines, and implement standardized architectural patterns and best practices.
• Provide operational support, incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call support.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, procedures, and troubleshooting guides, and drive continuous improvements in reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Retirement program with employer match and automatic contribution.
• Employee assistance program, employee wellness program, telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional development, including Employee Resource Groups, a mentoring program, and Heart U online learning resources.
• Paid Time Off (minimum of 16 days per year for new employees, increasing with seniority).
• 12 paid holidays each year.
• Tuition assistance.
• Annual salary planning and incentive programs, based on position type.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior