Cloud Platform Engineer Google Cloud Platform GCP

Job Description

Reporting to the Manager, Public Cloud Platform Engineering, the Public Cloud Platform Engineer helps build and support platform services for AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role includes communication with internal teams around updates and/or unexpected outages while working with public cloud vendors to help solve those issues. For each new service that will be supported, this role will focus on building automated solutions which can be passed to our Site Reliability Engineering team to build for specific business units. Key areas of impact this role provides are improving speed to market capabilities through public cloud infrastructure, promoting development and operations best practices, innovative solutions, technical problem solving, and precision engineering through communications and proper blueprinting processes. The ideal candidate will foster a collaborative environment by leaning on a public cloud infrastructure background along with IaC experience. Areas of operation include Software, Systems, Network, Security, Cloud (Public / Private / Community / Hybrid), Automation, and Development and Infrastructure Operations. The candidate will primarily focus on engineering automated platform solutions. Engineers in this role will work tightly with DevOps Engineering and Enablement teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams. These results are achieved by:

• Participate in two-week sprints (planning, implementation, demo, retro)
• Build cloud platform solutions based on business need which includes manual creation for understanding of the process, automation of the process, and hand off to internal development and operations team for implementation into the self-service portal.
• Continuous learning and growth to stay current on new developments within Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, education, knowledge, skill and/or abilities required.

• 2+ years in working with public cloud infrastructure solutions (IaaS and PaaS solutions specifically).
• 5+ years working in technical software or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Experience with Git based systems for source control management.
• Large-scale server and network management technology.
• Procedure and policy design, documentation and dissemination.
• Understanding of global network design and inter-networking.
• Security engineering, server and network hardening, auditing and reporting.
• Strong technical, analytical, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior healthcare experience would be a plus.
• BA in a computer-related field preferred but not required.
• Industry certifications based on Public Cloud Infrastructure (e.g., Azure MCSA/MCSE, AWS Solutions Architect).