Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer

Excellus BCBS; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Excellus BCBS is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on distributed cloud platforms. You will drive vision and strategy for public/private cloud solutions, design flexible platform architectures, and ensure legacy systems interact safely.

You will deliver research, evaluation, development, and deployment across infrastructure lifecycles. You will collaborate with IT teams to deploy technologies including PaaS/SaaS, on‑premises and hosted services, focusing on resiliency, security,

Qualifications

• Note: Leveled role with increasing scope across levels I–IV.
• Experience with research, design, and implementation in cloud/infrastructure technologies.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and audit policies/procedures.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary engineer for assigned technology areas.
• Maintain a highly performant and optimized infrastructure environment.
• Assist in budgeting and enterprise strategy for technology areas.
• Mentor lower-level engineers and lead automation initiatives.

Skills

Strong communication

Scripting & automation

Infra operations

Cloud computing concepts

Education

Associates degree in CS/IT or related field

Bachelor's degree preferred

Seven years related work experience in lieu of degree

Tools

VMware

Windows Server

Azure

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Nutanix

YAML

JSON

REST API

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Excellus BCBS is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on distributed cloud platforms. You will drive vision and strategy for public/private cloud solutions, design flexible platform architectures, and ensure legacy systems interact safely.

You will deliver research, evaluation, development, and deployment across infrastructure lifecycles. You will collaborate with IT teams to deploy technologies including PaaS/SaaS, on‑premises and hosted services, focusing on resiliency, security,