Remote Cloud Platform Engineering Lead

Centene Corporation; California; Remote; USD 103,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene Corporation is seeking a Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering to lead a team responsible for cloud platform engineering, architecture enhancements, and operational excellence. You will shape cloud standards, drive innovation in automation and security, and partner across engineering, risk, and architecture teams to deliver resilient, high-performing cloud services.

This is a remote position within the United States.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience.
• 2+ years experience in setting up cloud infrastructure with public providers like Azure, AWS, or Google preferred.
• Cloud certification with AWS, Azure, or Google required.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team for the cloud services unit responsible for managing the cloud platform.
• Partners with cloud and enterprise architecture teams to enforce cloud standards and roadmaps.
• Develops deep domain understanding and demonstrates thought leadership in emerging areas.
• Collaborates with risk and information security teams to ensure proper controls and security.
• Works with application teams to provide new platform service offerings to enable their success.
• Acts as SME for planning and executing cloud platform architecture enhancements including network, security, and automation.
• Owns reliability, availability, and performance of core cloud platform functions.
• Manages department staff including hiring, performance management and career development.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Cloud certification

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Shell scripting

PowerShell

Job description

Centene Corporation is seeking a Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering to lead a team responsible for cloud platform engineering, architecture enhancements, and operational excellence. You will shape cloud standards, drive innovation in automation and security, and partner across engineering, risk, and architecture teams to deliver resilient, high-performing cloud services.

This is a remote position within the United States.