Senior AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Senior AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer in a fully remote role. You will guide teams through cloud migration, AI platform adoption, and operational optimization, acting as a trusted technical advisor to balance innovation with security and governance.

Candidates should have enterprise AI platform experience (Azure AI Foundry or Google Gemini Enterprise), multi-cloud Azure and Google Cloud, and strong CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, and Docker/Kubernetes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required.
• 5 years of Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with enterprise network design including segmentation, 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for installation and support of Cloud software and services for production deployments.
• Automate infrastructure and services using IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design cloud services and tooling to meet business needs with focus on performance, security, and cost.
• Define technical solutions to meet business needs through Agile processes.
• Handle day-to-day cloud infrastructure tasks including monitoring, alerts, and troubleshooting.
• Guide architecture and development teams on system designs and cloud or on-premises decisions.
• Assist with evaluating/migrating on-premises systems to cloud, building redundant environments for uptime and continuity.
• Maintain documentation of infrastructure design and procedures and educate teams on new cloud initiatives.

Skills

Azure/GCP

CI/CD

Automation

Docker/Kubernetes

Cloud security

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Splunk

New Relic

Logstash

CloudTrail

Terraform/Ansible

Git/GitHub/Bitbucket

Azure DevOps/Jenkins

Job description

The Cloud Enablement & Engineering Team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Senior AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. In this fully-remote role, you’ll guide teams through cloud migration, AI platform adoption, and operational optimization. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, translating business requirements into enterprise architectures that balance innovation, security, governance, and operational excellence

To excel in this role, you’ll need:

• Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry and/or Google Gemini Enterprise
• Multi-cloud architecture experience (Azure & GCP)

Experience in a regulated industry (healthcare, government, finance, etc.) is a plus.

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 technical leadership and responsibility for the installation and support of Cloud software and services to assure a sound deployment basis for production implementations.
• Proactively automate infrastructure and services to enable the cloud team to deliver value to the enterprise. Use of automation such as Infrastructure as Code to create infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines to apply changes.
• Recommends/designs cloud services and tools for systems which meet business needs and considers target environment, performance, security requirements and costs.
• Help define technical solutions to meet business needs through Agile process.
• Responsible for day-to-day cloud infrastructure operational tasks such as monitoring metrics and logs, responding to alerts, and system troubleshooting.
• Work with architecture and development teams to provide guidance for new system designs and determine if on premise or cloud environments are best suited to run the workload.
• Assist with the evaluation and migration of on-premises systems to determine which systems are best suited to run in cloud environments. Build highly redundant environments to ensure application performance, uptime, scalability, and business continuity to prevent loss of business services.
• Maintain documentation of infrastructure design, related technical procedures, operations manuals, and other best practice guidance and strategies. Educate current teams on new cloud initiatives and the support of those environments.

Job Qualifications

Education

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

Experience

• 5 years - Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
• 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 and/or GCP 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 and their deployment via Kubernetes based services
• Knowledge and experience 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.

Number of Openings Available

0

Worker Type

Employee

Company

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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