Senior Staff Cloud Engineer

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time away from work

401(k) match

Education support

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer to architect and deliver cloud services across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. You will champion IaC, drive multi-cloud strategies, and collaborate with architecture, security, and product teams to meet business needs.

Responsibilities include defining design patterns, enabling disaster recovery, and mentoring engineers while staying current with cloud innovations and governance standards. Nashville location with strong IT leadership support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Architect level cloud certification – AWS, GCP, or Azure highly preferred.
• Extensive experience in deploying and supporting cloud solutions.
• Experience leading teams and guiding enterprise cloud initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and govern IaC-based cloud architectures across public and hybrid clouds.
• Lead scope definition, requirements analysis, and production deployments.
• Collaborate with Security, Enterprise Architecture and Product teams.
• Stay current with cloud trends and guide roadmaps for cloud adoption.
• Mentor engineers and educate teams on best practices for cloud platforms.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Multi-cloud

IaC (infrastructure as code)

DevOps tool chains

Education

Bachelor's degree

Architect Level Cloud Certification

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Job description

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer today with HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Position Summary

The Senior Staff Cloud Engineer role is a great opportunity for anyone passionate about technology and innovation looking to join a highly collaborative, team oriented organization. You will be responsible for building strong relationships with HCA ITG leaders, project managers, enterprise architects, and other technical teams for delivering products and services to meet their needs while adhering to industry best practices and HCA Policies and Guidelines.

You will work closely with various areas of the enterprise to define, architect, and enable the delivery of cloud services and solutions, focusing on infrastructure as code (IAC) across a multi-tiered, multi cloud strategy. These responsibilities require the candidate to have a deep understanding of:

• Infrastructure as Code
• Lifecycle Configuration management
• Disaster Recovery / High Availability
• Google Cloud
• Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft Azure

You will interact daily with the following departments:

• Security Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Application Product teams
• Information Privacy and Protection
• Business Partners
• Vendors

Major Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the why as well as articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert and Teacher/Educator to the organization for cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure Maintain Overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, and solutions when it comes to cloud environments.
• Develop solutions architecting and evaluate architectural alternatives for public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Identify and research emerging technologies across clouds and edge
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery applications.
• Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment
• Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners
• Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk
• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations
• Develop, document, and manage enterprise technical standards alongside the Cloud Center of Excellence for the use, deployment, support, and governance of cloud technologies.
• Lead and/or participate on a team designing, developing and testing IaC solutions for IaaS and PaaS solutions for on-prem or Cloud platforms
• Stay abreast of cloud technologies, capabilities, and industry use of cloud to help guide HCA's strategy and adoption.
• Partner with our cloud vendors to provide feedback and shape product roadmaps to meet our needs
• Develop documentation utilizing standardized templates including: Installation and Configuration Guides, design, and engineering plans.
• Write other non-templated documentation as needed to support tasks like: process and procedures documents for operational support, lessons learned, diagrams, systems administration guidelines, systems set-up documentation, hardware integration test plans and results.
• Help educate HCA business units and mentor engineers/developers on best practices and use of cloud technologies.
• Migrate complex, multi-tier applications to public cloud
• Design, optimize, and document the operational aspects of the Cloud platform
• Work closely with customers to develop robust and reusable configuration management components Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Bachelors Degree required
• Architect Level Cloud Certification – AWS, GCP, or Azure highly preferred
• Minimum of 13 years of experience in Core background spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations or Minimum of 5 years of experience in deploying and supporting critical applications to a cloud solution in a senior engineer role for a mid-sized organization or larger
• Experience as a team lead preferred
• Experience in multi cloud platforms – Azure, AWS, GCP
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of an technical architecture
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.