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Hackensack Meridian Health · 3 months ago

Cloud Engineer IV - Digital Technology Services

Edison, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$154K/yr - $154K/yr

8+ years exp

Hackensack Meridian Health is dedicated to improving patient care and fostering a collaborative work environment. The Information Technology (IT) Cloud Engineer IV plays a crucial role in leading the development of the HMH cloud platform, ensuring its reliability and optimization, while providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

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Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance to cloud and other engineers for the design, implementation, and support of new cloud platform architecture and automation technologies. Update and maintain existing cloud and automation systems

HMH subject matter expert for cloud, automation, and end-to-end architecture for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions

Work closely with other teams to develop and promote cloud-native application architectures (microservices, serverless, containers) and application development and operations practices

Maintain overall industry knowledge on the latest trends, technology, etc., and demonstrate forward thinking around how technology can support where the organization is going

Advocate and define the cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems

Design, configure, implement, and support a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code

Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud

Enable DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Cloud Build, and Azure DevOps

Participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance, and support, including but not limited to patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades

Act as a thought partner in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans

Implement production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation; Serve as a point of escalation within the team for production support issues

Provide technical guidance to junior team members

Review product work, including detailed code, from other team members for approval to deploy; provide technical feedback as needed

Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of a workaround solution or escalation to service owners

Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment for cloud platform projects

Create and maintain documentation of architecture solutions, such as whitepapers, reference architectures, implementation diagrams, etc., and relevant systems, procedures, and processes

Deliver technical solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale, and performance and, in turn, enable breakthrough innovations

Drive deep, collaborative architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful, automated deployment in the cloud, providing prescriptive guidance in addressing customer concerns and helping customers make decisions, enabling the use of the Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure platforms

Other duties and/or projects as assigned

Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior

Qualification

Cloud architectureInfrastructure as codeDevOps practicesTerraformCloud servicesAgile methodologiesMicroservices architectureKubernetesContinuous integrationTechnical leadershipAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology

Minimum of 8+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, design, and architecture of virtualized servers/cloud systems

Must have good consultative, communication, team player, and analytical skills for regular interaction between various teams distributed across HMH

Good technical leadership skills and relevant experience working with other highly technical resources through adopting new technologies while also maintaining highly available, mission-critical systems

Possess deep technical knowledge and extensive experience with complex IT environments, including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security, and operations; as well as have a solid understanding of cloud services, cloud native architectures, and application delivery models

Clear verbal and written communication skills to business/technology leaders, architects, developers, & team members

Ability to collaborate effectively with a group of high-performing technical individuals

Hands-on experience with agile, DevOps, and continuous integration/continuous delivery

Demonstrated ability to support cloud architecture recommendations and decisions with research and reasoning

Hands-on experience with Terraform, Github, & configuration management tools (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

Experience with architecting, implementing, and maintaining highly available mission-critical environments for twenty-four-seven (24/7) availability

Experience working in a defined production change control process and a mature security control posture environment

Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability) and DevOps tool chains and processes

Demonstrated history of working within deadlines and under pressure

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification at hire or within twelve (12) months of hire

Preferred

Experience working in a health care or highly regulated environment

Strong understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), object-oriented analysis and design, and client/server systems

Minimum of 10+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, design, and virtualized servers/cloud systems architecture

In-depth knowledge and understanding of container and microservices technologies and related architectures, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Kafka

Passionate about new technologies and architecture

Keeps current with cloud platform and infrastructure space trends while always searching for ways to improve systems as technology evolves, with a steady eye towards extensive regulatory/compliance demands (i.e. Center for Internet Security [CIS], National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPPA] etc)

Google Cloud Platform Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification