About the role

  • Senior Cloud Engineer at Elevance Health responsible for cloud application delivery and infrastructure management. Collaborating across teams to maintain scalable, secure cloud solutions with a focus on compliance and operational excellence.

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

Requirements

  • Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
  • Minimum of 5 years related experience; multi-dimensional platform experience
  • Expert level experience with business and technical applications
  • Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading multiple small projects 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

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package
  • incentive and recognition programs
  • equity stock purchase
  • 401k contribution
  • merit increases
  • paid holidays
  • Paid Time Off
  • medical benefits
  • dental benefits
  • vision benefits
  • short and long term disability benefits
  • stock purchase plan
  • life insurance
  • wellness programs
  • financial education resources

Job title

Senior Cloud Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$127,600 - $191,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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