Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

bcbst; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is seeking a Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer in a fully remote role. You will define target-state architectures and enterprise platform strategies while guiding product and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud and AI solutions.

Some travel to Chattanooga for final interviews is required. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, hands-on experience with Azure/AWS/GCP migrations, and strong leadership and communication

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience required.
• 8+ years of Infrastructure Cloud and Software Engineering experience.
• Experience leading large-scale Azure/AWS/GCP migrations and Azure cloud delivery.
• Automation and development best practices for cloud modernization.
• Enterprise network design including segmentation, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with Linux/Windows operating systems and firewalls.
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail).

Responsibilities

• Provide SME on cloud architecture and infrastructure engineering to IT and business teams.
• Collaborate across product management, architecture, software engineering, and infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes.
• Translate technical requirements into business terms and communicate risks to stakeholders.
• Produce high-level and low-level design diagrams and workflows for leadership and technical teams.
• Work with Reliability Engineering to implement cloud monitoring tools.
• Manage project life cycle from design to operation transition and hyper care.
• Participate in troubleshooting and Level 3 engineering support for infra and apps.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Cloud strategy

Automation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

Terraform/Ansible

Git/GitHub/Bitbucket

Azure DevOps/Jenkins

Cloud security tooling

Job description

The Cloud Enablement & Engineering Team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. In this fully remote role, you will develop target-state architectures, define enterprise platform strategies, and guide product and engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and business-aligned cloud and AI solutions.

Notes

• While this is a remote role, travel to our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required for final interviews.

• We are unable to hire candidates who live in NY, NJ, NJ, CA or MA.

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams.
• Collaborates with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools.
• Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.
• Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and able to present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.
• Work with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud specific monitoring tools.
• Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care and operation transition.
• Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.

Job Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience is required.

Experience

• 8 years - Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with infrastructure cloud engineering and establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.
• Experience leading large-scale Azure/AWS/GCP migrations and Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e., responsible for cloud project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight, project delivery approach, delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams.
• Experience in Automation and Development best practices related to Cloud application modernization.
• Experience with enterprise network design including segmentation models, encryption, logging and monitoring.
• Experience with firewalls, network authentication controls, and Linux/Windows operating systems.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail.

Skills/Certifications

• Deep understanding of Azure (preferred) and/ or AWS experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure
• Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools.
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images, their deployment via Kubernetes based services, DNS/DDI, networking management
• Knowledge of Terraform/Ansible, GIT based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps/Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline.
• Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation, and leadership skills.
• Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences

Number of Openings Available

1

Worker Type: Employee

Company:

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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