Hybrid Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

at Elevance Health

• Job title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $127,600 - $191,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, DNS, Firewalls, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Packer, Python, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Elevance Health responsible for multi-technology platform development and cloud environments. Collaborating with teams to define infrastructure and delivery timelines with a focus on security and compliance.

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 and a minimum of 5 years related experience; multi-dimensional platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications
• 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.
• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading multiple small projects and providing troubleshooting support is preferred.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution