Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Preferred location: Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX. Please note: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for delivery of end-to-end application, system development and maintenance on complex multi technology platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments.

How you will make an impact:

• 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.

Minimum requirements: Requires a 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, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred skills, capabilities & experiences:

• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading multiple small projects and providing troubleshooting support is 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.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $127,600 to $191,400. Locations: Illinois. In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve. We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws. Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.