Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Advisor - Nashville, United States - Elevance Health

Description

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Advisor
The
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Advisor performs analysis and research of systems and networks. Reviews detailed business and technical requirements to recommend technical solutions.

Location: Atlanta, GA preferred. Alternate locations may be considered. This position will work in a hybrid model (remote and office). The Ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.
_Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without current or future sponsorship requirements._

How you will make an impact:

• Research, design, test, and evaluate new cloud technologies, platforms, and strategic partner products and services.
• Influence cross-functional teams (application, platform, security, data, operations, infrastructure) through transformative changes.
• Leverage cloud native and third-party tools to troubleshoot complex application issues.
• Provides advanced-level engineering design functions.
• Develop Terraform modules to support application teams and provide the necessary security guardrails; develop CI/CD pipelines and branching strategies to enable automated provisioning of cloud resources to test and prod environments.
• Develop self-service capabilities to empower application teams.
• Document instructional guides to reduce the learning curve for service consumers.
• Create and review technical and functional specifications for development efforts and oversee the end-to-end successful execution of those specifications.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews, including cloud-based architecture and integrations.
• Proposes opportunities to improve results based on targeted or continuous assessment.
• Participates in enterprise planning activity, including vendor assessment, technology platform selection, and retirement, prioritization, and integration.
• Articulate advanced multiple cloud environment infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network, Backups, DR, and Monitoring).
• Interface with software vendors for support as well as application and infrastructure teams.
• Executes effective interpersonal skills, a team-work attitude, and drives collaborative initiatives.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a
  minimum of 10 years in one or more of the following: information systems, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management required; significant experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required; broad-based experience to plan and design highly complex systems; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, & Experiences:

• 8 Years of
  Cloud Engineering experience with AWS or other cloud platform.
• 2 Years of Cloud Architecture experience.
• 1 years experience in
  Terraform module development; experience with Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud.
• 1 years of hands-on programming language experience (
  Python, Java, Go preferred).
• Production experience in large environments using automation and configuration management tools like
  Terraform, Ansible, and CFT required.
• 2 years of experience with
  Source Code Management and branching usage required.
• 2-4 years experience architecting DevOps-based
  CI/CD deployment pipeline s required.
• 1-3 years of experience with Event-driven, Micro-services, and Serverless development patterns in the Public Cloud preferred.
• Experience re-architecting on-prem applications and migrating them to any/all CSP's infrastructure.
• 
  AWS Certified Solution Architect required (GCP and Azure certifications as an optional replacement).