Senior Systems Development Engineer L4

RXinsider LTD.; Bowie, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Paid time off

Job summary

Inovalon is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to define and enforce cloud governance across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake. The role emphasizes platform features, infrastructure as code, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable solutions.

You will drive performance, security, and cost-efficiency while supporting application teams with design and implementation guidance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years as Cloud/SRE or Systems Engineer.
• Experience with cloud platforms and standard governance practices.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code and security.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and enforce governance for commercial cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Snowflake).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure non-functional requirements: availability, performance, security, cost-efficiency; develop metrics for automation and improvement.
• Support application engineering with architecture and deployment guidance.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Site Reliability/Cloud Engineer

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Linux)

IaC & automation (Terraform, Azure Dev

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps/Azure Pipelines

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.

Inovalon Offers a Competitive Salary And Benefits Package

In addition to the base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

The actual base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. At Inovalon, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Inovalon invests in associates to help them stay healthy, save for long-term financial goals, and manage the demands of work and personal commitments. That’s why Inovalon offers a valuable benefits package with a wide range of choices to meet associate needs, which may include health insurance, life insurance, company-paid disability, 401k, 18+ days of paid time off, and more.

Base Compensation Range

$94,000—$131,000 USD

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 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.