Lead Infrastructure Engineer — Cloud, Performance & Security

Surescripts, LLC; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare including inf

Paid time off & parental leave

Pet insurance

401(k) with company match

Immediate vesting

Job summary

Surescripts, LLC is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to ensure stability, performance, and security of cloud-native and on-premise systems. You will lead cross-disciplinary initiatives, architect scalable solutions, and drive IaC and automation in a fast-paced healthcare tech environment.

The role emphasizes performance tuning in Google Cloud Platform, with hybrid work flexibility and a focus on secure, compliant operations as part of our national health tech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, information sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering role.
• Experience in a production operation environment with high uptime requirements.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
• Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies – Vmware (vSphere / ESXi 8x) and Kubernetes preferred.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Powershell, Python, Perl).
• Experience with performance, logging and monitoring tools (Zenoss, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Strong background in system metrics analysis and monitoring.
• Experience working in cloud environments (GCP preferred).

Responsibilities

• Participate in development of strategic goals and plans for new and existing systems infrastructure.
• Research, design, architect, and implement new technologies and solutions that span on-premise and cloud platforms in a method consistent with our security policies and infrastructure-as-code principals.
• Implement performance tuning strategies to optimize system performance, resource utilization, and overall efficiency.
• Collaborate with other teams to design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Assist in support of issues impacting the performance or reliability of production transactions.
• Recommend/implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure system security through secure system access, monitoring and control.
• Participate as necessary in routine security evaluations.
• Implement automation solutions for system provisioning, configuration management, and performance tuning.
• Ensure compliance with policies, standards, licensing agreements, configuration guidelines, and best-practices for maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Ensure all systems and processes are well-documented and comply with internal policies and industry standards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Agile/DevOps

Security/compliance

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Vmware vSphere/ESXi

Kubernetes

Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl

Job description

Surescripts, LLC is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to ensure stability, performance, and security of cloud-native and on-premise systems. You will lead cross-disciplinary initiatives, architect scalable solutions, and drive IaC and automation in a fast-paced healthcare tech environment.

The role emphasizes performance tuning in Google Cloud Platform, with hybrid work flexibility and a focus on secure, compliant operations as part of our national health tech ecosystem.