Lead Cloud Engineer

Davita Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the healthcare sector is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer responsible for managing AWS infrastructure and ensuring robust cloud security and optimization. This role offers the opportunity to work fully remote and provides generous benefits, including financial wellness resources and health perks. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AWS technologies and a strong background in infrastructure engineering, along with effective collaboration abilities across diverse teams.

Benefits

Fully remote work available

Generous 403(b) employer contributions

Fitness and wellness programs

Employer paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Back-up care options for family members

Qualifications

• 8 years of professional infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience in AWS integration and management.
• Proven track record in cloud performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities related to the AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineers to maintain and support AWS resources.
• Drive maintenance of EC2 servers and cloud applications.

Skills

Advanced Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Security

DevOps Automation

Scripting

CI/CD tools

GIT

BitBucket

Docker Containers

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

RDS Databases

Cloud performance monitoring

Splunk

New Relic

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Who We Are:

The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care by supporting the entire spectrum of medical education, medical research, and patient care conducted by our member institutions. We are dedicated to the communities we serve and steadfast in our goal to improve the health of all.

At the AAMC, we are committed to supporting our employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to promote well-being, professional growth, and work-life balance. Highlights include:

• Remote Work - Fully remote work available for most positions

• Retirement Savings - Generous 403(b) employer contributions and financial wellness resources, including professional financial advising.

• Health & Wellness Perks - Fitness and bicycle subsidies, on-site and virtual wellness programs (live yoga, meditation, mental health webinars, flu shot clinics, and more)

• Support & Family Care - Employer paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and back-up care options for children, adults, elders, and even pets

Additional information can be found on our website.

• Coordinate the activities related to the AWS cloud infrastructure and database, involving the definition, development, and maintenance of procedures, as well as overseeing the study and implementation of new processes and techniques for the area.
• Collaborate with engineers, technologists, and application owners across the company to maintain and support resources running in AWS Cloud Projects usage and required capacities based on analysis of existing and emerging products and services.
• Work as a technical lead to drive maintenance of EC2 servers, databases, cloud applications to keep them up to date.
• Work with vendors to evaluate new products and resolve equipment design problems.
• Work independently to create, update, implement and model best practices.
• Discover and lead cloud cost optimization opportunities in AWS.
• Apply in-depth professional level knowledge to independently solve a full range of complex problems and offers sensible solutions.
• Follow best practices around database management, performance architecture and environment reliability
• Lead and automate AWS cloud infrastructure deployments and integrations using IAC methodologies.
• Develop and use solutions like CI/CD, CloudFormation, GitLab, BitBucket and Scripting to automate patching, maintenance and security of services running in Cloud and On-Prem
• Deployment and management of RDS Aurora PostgreSQL/Oracle databases infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, patch compliance, and security, while closely collaborating with the security team to deploy new services and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Identify and implement AWS best practices related to IT Cloud Security gaps, Monitoring, Performance, Resilience and Fault Tolerance.
• Develop resolution of Trusted Advisor recommendations, identify gaps in AWS monitoring and security and implement solutions using Cloudwatch, AWS services, Splunk and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement best practices to improve availability of the business applications using Docker containers, ECS, EKS, Postgres DB and Serverless architecture.
• Develop Blue/Green deployment for databases and application deployments
• Establish and maintain monitoring systems to track cloud performance and availability. Lead incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on business operations.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or related technical field followed by 8 years of progressively responsible professional infrastructure engineering experience.

Experience must include:

• 5 years of experience with Advanced Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• 3 years of experience with AWS Security, Automation and Monitoring.
• 3 years of experience with DevOps Automation, Scripting, CI/CD tools, GIT and BitBucket.
• 3 years of experience with laC tools such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Docker Containers and ECS.
• 3 years of experience with the configuration and support of multiple, complex RDS Databases in AWS environment.
• 3 years of experience with cloud performance and cost monitoring.
• 3 years of experience with Lamdba, EKS, ALB, WAF, EFS, S3 and Aurora Postgres.
• 3 years of experience with Splunk and New Relic.

Telework: 100% remote; position may be performed from anywhere within the U.S.

SALARY: $150,437 to $152,000/year.

LOCATION: 655 K Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20001

TO APPLY: Please send resume to [e-mail] and reference Lead Cloud Engineer position.

Remote Work Eligibility

This position is eligible for remote work in the contiguous US

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The AAMC is committed to the policy of an equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other personnel practices. The AAMC will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, past or current military service, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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