Architect III - Cloud, DevOps, and SRE

CareSource; Dayton (OH); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

CareSource in Dayton, OH seeks an Architect III to design and implement cloud, DevOps, and SRE solutions. You will collaborate with IT teams to deliver critical outcomes for Digital Solutions and help scale our digital platform nationally.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud strategy, automation, and reliability. A bachelor’s degree and 10+ years in related fields, preferably in healthcare IT, are expected, with exposure to Terraform, Azure, and modern observability stacks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required; 10+ years in IT roles such as App Dev, SRE, Cloud Architecture.
• Experience designing/implementing architectures in large enterprise environments, preferably healthcare IT.
• Cloud, DevOps, and SRE disciplines across multi-team environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Cloud/DevOps/SRE teams to enable Digital Solutions delivery.
• Promote architecture principles and standards across IT and cloud platforms.
• Define and implement automated deployment, rollback, and observability practices.
• Lead reliability initiatives, capacity planning, and performance metrics for Digital platforms.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

Github Actions

Azure Cloud

Dynatrace

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Summary

The Architect III - Cloud, DevOps, and SRE is responsible for partnering with many internal CareSource IT teams to design and implement critical outcomes in the Cloud, DevOps, and SRE domains intended to be leveraged by the Digital Solutions delivery teams. Additionally, expected to play a key role in defining and delivering strategies to help our Digital platform scale at a national level.

Essential Functions

• Partnerships Driving strong partnerships with our internal Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Site Reliability Engineering organizations aimed at enabling the Digital Solutions delivery teams. Demonstrate strong collaboration with Business & Product Leaders, IT Leaders, and individual teams within the IT organization.
• Cloud Architecture & Strategy Partner with peers within all Information Technology groups to promote architecture principles, standards, methods, and strategic direction for the enterprise. Work closely with internal cloud experts to harden implementations of cloud services utilized by specific Digital projects. Collaborate with Cloud Engineering/Platform team to build out cloud infrastructure templates for common service use cases leveraging Terraform. Design and implement infrastructure and related tooling/processes to support blue/green style deployments.
• DevOps Practices & Strategies Work with internal DevOps team to coordinate on CareSource standards. Follow standards to deliver necessary enhancements to existing pipelines and process automations. Define and implement automated rollback strategies with Digital application owners. Create valuable integrations between Agile product tool and VCS system to facilitate automated release documentation.
• Site Reliability Engineering Lead the alignment, strategy, and delivery of context-based Site Reliability Engineering to meet the individual needs of our Digital products. Lead efforts to continuously improve/enhance Digital Platform reliability, scalability, and performance & report valuable metrics to leadership. Collaborate with SRE teams to implement appropriate alerting, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in the areas of Application Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems/Automation Engineering, or Cloud Application Architecture experience required. Direct experience in designing/implementing technically diverse application and infrastructure architectures within large-scale enterprise environments is required, preferably in healthcare IT. Experience in many disciplines/areas of IT & Application Delivery including Cloud-based Application Design, Architecture, and Development, Event/Message Streaming Technologies, Monitoring & Observability Tooling/Practices, Relational & Non-Relational Databases, Frontend & Backend Development Practices/Patterns, Infrastructure Code, DevOps Practices, IT Service Management Principles, IT Controls Best Practices in a Regulated/Sensitive Environment, Test Automation workflows & tools.

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills

Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. Strong interpersonal skills including excellent written and verbal communication skills; listening and critical thinking; presentation skills, facilitation skills. Ability to establish effective working relationships with stakeholders at all different levels. Ability to lead technical evaluations and conduct research & development in emerging technologies. Ability to contribute code to get new initiatives off the ground. Ability to jump in with a development team and contribute code when technical expertise is needed.

Tech Stack Experience (not exhaustive)

Terraform Enterprise, Github Actions (similar CI/CD platform), Azure Cloud, Dynatrace, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes

Licensure and Certification

Architecture-level certifications from any major cloud providers, Azure Cloud certifications preferred.

Working Conditions

General office environment; may be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time

Compensation Range

$135,600.00 - $237,400.00 CareSource takes into consideration a combination of a candidate’s education, training, and experience as well as the position’s scope and complexity, the discretion and latitude required for the role, and other external and internal data when establishing a salary level. In addition to base compensation, you may qualify for a bonus tied to company and individual performance. We are highly invested in every employee’s total well-being and offer a substantial and comprehensive total rewards package.

Compensation Type (hourly/salary)

Salary

Organization Level Competencies

Fostering a Collaborative Workplace Culture Cultivate Partnerships Develop Self and Others Drive Execution Influence Others Pursue Personal Excellence Understand the Business

Job Description Note

This job description is not all inclusive. CareSource reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. CareSource is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment of belonging that welcomes and supports individuals of all backgrounds.

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Mission

The CareSource mission is known as our heartbeat. Just as we support our members to be the best version of themselves, our employees are driven by our mission to create a better world for members, stakeholders and providers. We are difference-makers who combine compassionate hearts with our unique business expertise to make every opportunity count. Each claim, each phone call, each consumer-centric decision is a chance to change the world for one member, and our employees look for ways to do that every day. The challenge is, there is no one right way to be the difference and we’re looking for people like you that will rewrite that definition every day. We do what it takes to form creative solutions that make our community and the world just a little better. Discover what it means to be #UniquelyCareSource.