Homeoffice Senior Cloud Engineer at Premierinc

Duties: Ensure all workloads are on the correct platform based on product revenue, criticality, performance profile, and cost. Migrate workloads between platforms as needed. Provide resource consumption reporting (for all public/private/cloud container platforms (by application) to TechOps and business teams on a monthly basis. Review and refine reporting for maximum impact. Adapt self-service and manual provisioning interfaces and processes to drive the provisioning of resources on the most business and cost appropriate platforms. Implement controls that ensure individual workload consumption is either approved by business stakeholders or constrained by compute pool resource limits. Support efforts to establish “show back” of all costs associated with internal and external cloud and container platforms. Partner with development team leads and team members to support velocity in continuous integration and delivery process. Maintain awareness of and proficiency in development team CI/CD processes and tools. Ensure software development pipeline, testing, code repository, and issue tracking systems integrate well with cloud and container platform services. Work with Development iteration teams in an agile environment including but not limited to attending/stand ups, product meetings and involvement with sprint tasks. Identify applications on traditional infrastructure that could be re-expressed in cloud environments and develop priorities for migration based on level of effort and cost benefit. Play a key role in the technical deployment for new application initiatives, beginning at the business requirements stage, to determine and deliver technical components necessary to build and deploy the new application. Ensures technical and architectural requirements are incorporated appropriately within new system initiatives. Play a key role in technology evaluation, selection, integration and implementation of new systems architectures, tools and techniques. Attend vendor conferences and presentations to maintain current and develop new business relevant skills. Provide hands-on support for private/public cloud and container-based platforms. Provide 24 hour on call support for incident management and service restoration on a rotational basis. Provision workloads on appropriate compute platforms. Review incident trends and proactively register problems. Plan and implement changes to address risks and inefficiencies. Establish standards, document change procedures, coordinate planned maintenance, and communicate impacts to stakeholders. Trains others in proper procedures for handling issues. Teach and train automation skills utilizing via shell scripts and scheduling tools. Ensures all application and data components can be recovered according to backup retention policies. Develop a baseline understanding of system and component performance and resource utilization trends. Use this information to project growth requirements and plan for future capacity requirements. Develop and maintain as-built documentation, network drawings, network configurations and operating procedures. Partner with security team to document current methods and explore new means to perform vulnerability assessment (VA) in cloud environments. Regularly review all “build” templates to ensure current patch levels, minimum services enabled, and acceptable VA scan results. Ensure all workloads have network isolation from each other through segmentation methods approved by the Network Manager and Security Operations VP. Ensure the Network and Security teams have all possible visibility to network traffic and “net flow” data in cloud & container environments. Drive continuous improvement in patch management processes and vulnerability management policy. Implement role-based access privileges in each platform that ensure user roles have the least possible access needed to perform their business function.

Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus 7 years of experience in related occupations. Requires 7 years of experience in the following: Designing and deploying scalable cloud-based architectures using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, selecting appropriate compute resources (EC2, VMs, Serverless, Containers or similar) based on application needs, scalability, and performance; Cloud Compute Environments Management- Proficient in managing and scaling cloud compute environments (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, ECS, EKS, and AKS or similar), ensuring highly available, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective cloud solutions; CI/CD Pipeline Implementation- Expertise in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodePipeline to streamline development, testing, and deployment processes. Requires 5 years of experience in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform- Expertise in automating cloud infrastructure and workflows using scripting languages (Python, Bash or similar) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Requires 4 years of experience in the following: Cloud Cost Optimization Proficient in cloud cost optimization by using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and third-party tools to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud resource usage; Docker and Containerization- Worked extensively with Docker for creating dev and QA environments, including deploying and managing Docker containers in virtualized platforms, ensuring smooth application life cycle management. Requires 2 years of experience in the following: Cloud Security- Strong expertise in securing cloud environments by implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, encryption, firewalls, security groups, and network isolation (AWS Security Groups, Azure NSGs or similar). Telecommuting is permitted.

40 hours/week. Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply at www.jobpostingtoday.com (Ref. #23508) for consideration.

Premier at a glance:

• Ranked #1 on Charlotte’s Healthiest Employers list for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and 21st Healthiest Employer in America (2023)

• ​Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere® Institute for the 16th year in a row

• Modern Healthcare Best in Business Awards: Consultant - Healthcare Management (2024)

• The only company to be recognized by KLAS twice for Overall Healthcare Management Consulting

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Premier is looking for smart, agile individuals like you to help us transform the healthcare industry. Here you will find critical thinkers who have the freedom to make an impact. Colleagues who share your thirst to learn more and do things better. Teammates committed to improving the health of a nation. See why incredible challenges require incredible people.
 

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