Senior Engineer, Cloud - IT Resiliency Solutions

Molina Healthcare•Long Beach, CA

About The Position

Job Summary The Senior Cloud Services Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based solutions to meet our business needs. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud services, infrastructure, and security to ensure efficient and secure operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, or equivalent experience
5 or more years of IT implementation experience
3 years or more of hands-on experience with using, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting network infrastructure connecting to Azure Public Cloud Provider, including a deep understanding of and experience with: o Cloud Infrastructure (VNETs, subnets, Network Security Group, route tables, ACLs); authentication policies, DNS, cloud storage and domain management
Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure (applications, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, IP networks, storage networks, cloud platforms, backup networks and media
Knowledge in integrating Azure with on-prem services like AD, DNS, Firewalls, and load balancers with proper integration patterns and architectures
Experience with Cloud Infrastructure Security, Zero Trust, IAM, Networking, Data Security and leveraging the right solutions in these areas is required
Experience with API integration, automation, configuration management, monitoring, ensuring security and compliance are thorough in all cloud services implementation
Experience in Agile methodologies, DevOps model and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) processes and to support CI/CD initiatives is required
Experience in working with industry regulations, standards, and frameworks like NIST, PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR
Requires working knowledge of Microsoft technology stack and SQL Server database, including but not limited to high availability, disaster recovery, security, compliance, performance consideration, and cost management.
Ability to provide both detailed information as well as summaries to management and IT groups.
Experience in deploying the following: terraform, YAML, ARM template, Power Shell, Azure CLI, git/github, Azure DevOps CI/CD, SQL PaaS & Managed Instances, Azure Kubernetes Services, ASE, IaaS compute, network, and storage
Familiar with Azure data analytics platform deployment such as deploying infrastructure for Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lakes and Data Factories

Nice To Haves

Azure Administrator and other Azure certifications preferred

Responsibilities

Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in cloud environments.
Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies in the cloud.
Deploy IaaS, PaaS, Containers, and SaaS services in cloud environments.
Fully understand and manage Access Control Policies and Permissions, Resource Groups and security principles in Cloud environments.
Provide expertise and best practices for cloud security and compliance.
Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability and availability.
Experience deploying Active Directory, LDAP, SSO and integrating with Azure AD.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud services with other company systems.
Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and trends.
Design, implement and manage applications in Kubernetes environments within cloud environments.
Develop highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions to support business applications and processes.
Develop scripts to automate deployment of cloud resources and services using Ansible, Terraform and PowerShell playbooks.
Create and maintain detailed solution diagrams associated with application deployments, dependency mapping and business process flows.
Configure and maintain network monitoring tools associated with applications and business processes.
Assist with ensuring applications and business processes can be quickly and seamlessly failed over to recovery environments.
Create and maintain recovery runbooks and standard operating procedures.
Develop and participate in resiliency, performance, functionality, load and chaos tests for critical business applications and business processes.
Participate in the planning and execution of resiliency tests.
Interview application and business teams to gather information about application architecture, dependencies, data flow, capabilities, functions, and performance.
Direct involvement in setup and tear down of test environments.
Setup and effectively use troubleshooting and monitoring tools to quickly diagnose connectivity and performance issues.
Create and present technical solutions to demonstrate design, resilience plan, project status, and test results.