Cloud Operation Engineer

at Highmark Health in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

This job is a strong advocate of cloud technology and engineering support necessary to drive the organization’s next-generation technologies. The intermediate level incumbent works to adopt, expand, maintain, and optimize cloud usage across the organization through engineering support of cloud technologies and through automation builds and related technologies. The incumbent owns support and engineering of cloud solutions and must stay current with new cloud offerings to continue to produce expected corporate results.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Engineer & implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, deployment of cloud resources and application optimizations that utilize automation technologies, sound redundant solutions and enable business objectives.

+ Works to define cloud resource procurement and performance patterns throughmonitoring and tracking of usage and trends to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency.

+ Proposes ideas, designs, and solutions to senior or lead engineers to further cloud service utilization and optimization.

+ Develops automation scripts and other repeatable patterns to enable application and service teams to deploy software and services into cloud environments.

+ Performs research and analysis required for new cloud deployment proposals, existing cloud service modification, and other new cloud adoption to ultimately provide sound recommendations on best course of action.

+ Level 2 Incident, problem and change management as it pertains to the responsibilities of the cloud operations engineering team.

+ Develop documentation to support operations process, procedures and implementations.

+ Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Cloud Computing, Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or closely related discipline

Substitutions

+ None

EXPERIENCE

Required

+ 3 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell etc.)

+ Experience doing operational support of at least one of the following cloud service providers for an organization:Google Cloud Platform, Azure or Amazon Web Services.

Preferred

+ Experience producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable

+ Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution arc