Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining our cloud-based systems and services on AWS. Works to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our healthcare applications.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud architectures on AWS
• Configure and manage EC2 instances, EBS volumes, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM roles, and other AWS services
• Develop infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
• Automate deployment pipelines and manage CI/CD processes using Jenkins, CodePipeline, etc.
• Optimize cloud costs through proper resource sizing, auto-scaling, reserved instances, and spot fleets
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of applications
• Provide hands-on infrastructure administration, maintenance and operations support
• Diagnose, trouble shoot and correct infrastructure issues
• Works within and adheres to symplr infrastructure architecture, design and security, testing and documentation standards, within the company Change Control policy
• Responsible for adhering to and administering all company infrastructure and business continuity processes
• Writes and maintains documentation related to infrastructure operations, policies and procedures
• Provides technical assistance by responding to inquiries regarding errors, problems, or questions with systems and services
• Handles problem recognition, research, isolation, resolution and follow-up for complex problems escalated from IT Operations
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for production systems

Skills Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Three years of experience managing infrastructure on AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and best practices
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Ruby, or Bash for automation tasks
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of networking concepts, security best practices, and compliance requirements (HIPAA)
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Professional AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator)
• Experience supporting cloud infrastructure in a regulated industry like healthcare or finance
• Hands-on experience with serverless computing frameworks like Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions
• Knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies and experience working in cross-functional teams
• Contributions to open-source projects or community involvement via meetups, blogs, conferences