Senior Systems Development Engineer L4

RXinsider LTD.; Bowie (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Inovalon is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer L4 to define and enforce governance for cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Snowflake). The role emphasizes automation, platform features, and supporting application teams with scalable infrastructure.

Required are 5+ years in cloud engineering or SRE, deep knowledge of IaC and CI/CD tools, and scripting skills in Linux Shell, PowerShell, or Python. A Bachelor's is required; a Master’s is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or information technology.
• 5+ years in Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineer roles.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or Snowflake and cloud governance.
• Strong skills in infrastructure as code automation and CI/CD tooling.
• Scripting experience with Linux Shell, PowerShell, Python, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and enforce governance and standards for cloud platforms.
• Develop platform-level features and infrastructure-as-code components.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, monitor, and optimize cloud infra.
• Ensure reliability, security, performance, and cost-efficiency of solutions.
• Support deployment, troubleshooting, and automation of servers, storage, and networking.

Skills

Cloud governance

SRE experience

Automation & IaC

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure Pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.

Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare’s greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Overview:

The Senior Systems Development Engineer L4 will focus on defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for Inovalon’s commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake. This role requires good understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. This position will split time between developing commercial cloud governance and standards, defining and implementing platform-level features, developing infrastructure as code, and supporting application engineering teams with application design and implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assumes responsibility for defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake.
• Applies commercial cloud best practices to design, develop, and implement AWS, Azure, and GCP platform-level features.
• Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Collaborate with application engineering teams to create, monitor, and troubleshoot system infrastructure.
• Be an expert in service reliability, sustainability, and efficiency. Collaborate with product, application engineering, and security teams to ensure solutions realize non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, maintainability, and cost-efficiency.
• In depth knowledge of infrastructure deployment including knowledge of installation, configuration, troubleshooting of Servers, Storage, and Networking.
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage cloud-based infrastructure to drive automation, improvement, and performance.
• Windows and/or Linux installation and configuration knowhow and automation skills.
• Strong understanding about AD(Active Directory) , GPO (Group Policy Object), RDS(Remote Desktop Service)
• Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineer.
• Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, services, and infrastructure operations of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or Snowflake.
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Terraform, or similar.
• Extensive scripting experience with Terraform, Linux Shell, PowerShell, Python, or others.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g. H-1B, TN, or E-3). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a condition of employment. (This is only applicable for US-based positions)

Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.

By embracing inclusion, we enhance our work environment and drive business success. Inovalon strives to provide equal opportunities to the communities where we operate and to our clients and everyone whom we serve. We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting. We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.

Inovalon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.