Senior Systems Development Engineer L4

Doist; Bowie (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Inovalon is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer L4 to define and enforce governance for commercial cloud platforms. You will work with AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake, delivering platform-level features and infrastructure as code.

You will partner with product, security, and engineering teams to ensure non-functional requirements are met and to drive automation and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud engineering, SRE, or systems engineering experience.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or Snowflake platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code automation and CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps/Pipelines, Terraform.
• Scripting experience with Terraform, Linux Shell, PowerShell, Python, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and enforce governance and standards for commercial cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake.
• Develop platform-level features and infrastructure as code.
• Support application engineering teams with design and deployment of cloud-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams to meet non-functional requirements (availability, performance, security, cost).
• Drive automation using metrics and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Cloud engineering experience

Cloud platforms knowledge

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Scripting languages

Windows/Linux admin

AD/GPO/RDS knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Master's or PhD 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)

By embracing inclusion , we enhance our work environment and drive business success.

Inovalon strives to provide equal opportunit ies 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 v eteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.