Senior Cloud Engineer

This is a fully-remote role with the Cloud Enablement & Engineering team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Final onsite interviews at our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required. Sponsorship is not available; candidates must not reside in California, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts.

About the role

You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to develop, engineer, maintain, and continuously upgrade our Azure cloud architecture. Ideal candidates bring Azure infrastructure expertise, experience in a regulated industry (healthcare, government, finance, etc.), and experience with Terraform and Azure DevOps Automation (IaC).

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 using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Recommend and design cloud services and tools that meet business needs, considering target environment, performance, security requirements, and costs.
• Help define technical solutions to meet business needs through Agile processes.
• Handle 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 for workloads.
• 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, technical procedures, operations manuals, and best practice guidance.
• Educate current teams on new cloud initiatives and the support of those environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• 5+ years of 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, or CloudTrail.

Skills

• Deep understanding of Azure and/or GCP experience.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Git-based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images and their deployment via Kubernetes-based services.
• Knowledge of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.