Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Platform Engineer secures, maintains, and monitors private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, delivering solutions aligned with business needs. The role troubleshoots cloud and integrated application issues, manages storage, compute, networking, backup, and monitoring, and reviews utilization and performance to identify risks and prevent downtime through automation. The work includes SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions, with technologies such as Azure, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in a related role.
• Understand data security and privacy standards, including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.
• Have experience with infrastructure, platform, application, and security management using engineering-focused approaches.
• Prioritize tasks, influence decisions, and drive risk-reduction strategies.
• Have advanced scripting skills for automation using Terraform, Azure DevOps, SQL, Ansible, PowerShell, shell scripting, or Python.
• Have experience with cloud-native backup solutions and cloud-native monitoring.
• Design, build, and support SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud solutions.
• Manage cloud storage, compute, and networking resources.
• Understand firewalls, proxies, load balancers, and network security groups.
• Be familiar with TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, BGP, TLS, SSH, LDAP, Kerberos, NTP, CIFS, and NFS.
• Troubleshoot and optimize Windows Server and Linux systems, particularly in cloud deployments.
• Understand virtualization and containerization technologies, including AVS, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving integrated applications.
• Assess, diagnose, recommend, and implement process improvements.
• Healthcare IT experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Secure, maintain, and oversee cloud environment health.
• Monitor system performance and availability.
• Conduct utilization reviews and analyze data for trends.
• Establish fault notification processes.
• Implement automated, proactive measures to prevent application downtime.
• Execute cloud projects and manage project tasks.

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Relocation