Platform Engineer - Specialist

Ascension; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization committed to delivering high-value IT solutions in healthcare. As a Platform Engineer Specialist, you'll play a crucial role in the Cloud Data Operations team, implementing scalable data solutions on Google Cloud. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and drive continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact patient outcomes and business value. If you're passionate about technology and eager to embrace change, we invite you to be part of our mission to provide compassionate care to all.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Qualifications

• Experience in Cloud technologies, preferably Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mitigate business risks of customer interactions with GCP.
• Support daily operations with a focus on triage and impact mitigation.

Skills

Cloud Technologies

DevOps Practices

Java

Python

SQL

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

Associate's degree

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Jira

Confluence

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

We Are Hiring

• Department: Data Delivery and Governance
• Schedule: Full Time Monday - Friday 8-5pm CT
• Location: Remote

What You Will Do

Ascension Technologies is one of the nation’s largest healthcare information technology services organizations. We provide Ascension and its subsidiaries with low-cost, high-value IT infrastructure and software application services that:

• Support rapid and effective clinical decision-making

• Improve efficiency and care transitions

• Foster information sharing across the continuum of care

• Make knowledge and data actionable, leading to improvedpatient outcomes

Job Summary:

Ascension Data Delivery and Governance group within Ascension Technologies (AT) seeks a Specialist to join our Cloud Data Operations team. This role administers day-to-day operational support of various projects within the Google Cloud. Must be able to understand and implement enterprise cloud data architecture designs, and will work closely with the Agile/scrum team and business partners to identify, evaluate, design, and implement large scale data solutions. The Platform Engineer will work iteratively on a cloud platform to develop and implement scalable, high performance data solutions that offer measurable business value to customers. This role must be able to break down complex functional and technical requirements into independent coding tasks and strategies .This role includes various SME responsibilities, including identifying and troubleshooting issues, finding their resolution, and/or escalation supporting follow-up efforts. Ascension is transitioning to a DevOps and SRE organization, so we are looking for a Platform Engineer - Specialist who has an appetite for change and can challenge the boundaries of what can be done with automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• The Cloud DataOps team will be a production readiness steward for the Data platforms by managing, mitigating, or elevating awareness of the business risk of all customer interactions with GCP technology platforms.
• We accomplish this by linking every technology recommendation with a business value, continuously monitoring platform health indicators, and elevating awareness when one of our main objectives is at risk
• Makes recommendations to management on new processes, tools and techniques, or development of new products and services
• Lead activities for Continuous Delivery / Continuous Improvement, automate existing technical processes, enhance monitoring, and identify efficiencies for Cloud native applications
• Participate in design and code reviews, be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing existing data flows.
• Support daily operations with a distinct focus on triage, impact mitigation, and root cause identification through a depth of knowledge of corresponding products
• Centralizing points of interaction for both internal and external partners by communicating effectively with all key stakeholders
• Align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs
• Contribute to efforts to Protect and Enable teams responsible for implementing DevOps practices, production readiness, and compliance for Ascension Core Data Applications
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Manage, implement, enhance, and enforce consistent company and department Security Ops practices
• Support deployments of code into multiple environments
• Deliver time-saving process improvements that will be repeatable, maintainable, valuable, and fit into the Operations vision
• Ability to document designs and concepts
• Able to collaborate with scrum team including scrum master, product owner, data analysts, Quality Assurance, business owners, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps and data architecture to produce the best possible end products
• Experience contributing to and leveraging jira and confluence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Background in DevOps practices a distinct advantage
• Background in Operation Support model creation or design
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design

• Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, SQL, Go, Perl or Ruby

• Knowledge of IaC principles Ansible,Terraform, Jenkins, Github, Maven, JFrog, Kubernetes
• Experience in Cloud technologies, preferably Google Cloud, alternatively AWS or Azure
• High energy and ability to influence others
• Strong understanding of all phases of a Software Development Life Cycle
• Exceptional communication skills
• Self-motivated and highly collaborative
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks

What You Will Need

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.

Additional Preferences

Preferred:

• 5+ years of IT career-level experience preferred
• 2+ years of working in a Cloud environment
• Experience with technical research, proof-of-concept evaluations, and presenting findings to engineering teams.

• Experience with GCP-specific services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, IAM and GKE and ability to troubleshoot, optimize, and ensure the stability of these services in production environments
• Proven track record in cost optimization and resource management within GCP.
• Strong understanding of GCP security frameworks and best practices.

• Healthcare industry experience is preferred
• Experience with Striim is a plus
• Experience with Agile concepts, with methods of planning and organizing work
• Manage detailed SOP requirements and collaborate with project teams in detailed playbooks
• Ability to document designs and concepts
• Able to collaborate with scrum team including scrum master, product owner, data analysts, Quality Assurance, business owners, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps and data architecture to produce the best possible end products
• Experience contributing to and leveraging jira and confluence.

Why Join Our Team

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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Benefits

Paid time off (PTO) Various health insurance options & wellness plans Retirement benefits including employer match plans Long-term & short-term disability Employee assistance programs (EAP) Parental leave & adoption assistance Tuition reimbursement Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.