Senior Systems Development Engineer L4

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 focus on empowering customers with data-driven solutions to help them succeed in their missions and improve healthcare for millions of patients and members.

About the role

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 a strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. The position involves 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.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and enforce governance and standards for commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake.
• Apply 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.
• Serve as an expert in service reliability, sustainability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with product, application engineering, and security teams to ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, maintainability, and cost-efficiency.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of infrastructure deployment, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of servers, storage, and networking.
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage cloud-based infrastructure to drive automation, improvement, and performance.
• Perform Windows and/or Linux installation, configuration, and automation.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of Active Directory (AD), Group Policy Object (GPO), and Remote Desktop Service (RDS).
• Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States; this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, TN, or E-3).

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.