Cloud Infrastructure Architect

7 days ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States 001_BCBSA Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Full time
Job Description

Job Summary:

The Cloud Computing Engineer is a key member of the BCBSA Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association team, responsible for designing, creating, configuring, and delivering cloud infrastructure environments for various environments across the organization. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud computing technology stacks, including architecture, security, design, planning, management, maintenance, and support.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design cloud infrastructure environments with best practice configurations for a wide variety of systems, including databases, web services, and messaging systems, and other application support environments.
  • Efficiently translate project requirements from architecture/environment diagrams to formulate appropriate questions to identify and remediate design gaps.
  • Review and analyze architecture-level security solutions at the domain or product level to transform them into cloud infrastructure designs and implementations.
  • Establish strategic relations with key technology vendors to influence changes in future product releases.
  • Researches and benchmarks best practices and/or products in the area of cloud technologies.
  • Routinely gathers and assesses changing BCBSA business needs.
  • Analyzes and modifies enterprise technology strategy and architecture.
  • Analyzes how business processes interact with technology to create value for the business.
  • Maintains knowledge of cloud technologies, trends, and standards.
  • Provides input to the content of Requests for Information / Proposal (RFI/P) around the BCBSA technology architecture / infrastructure requirements and guiding principles.
  • Conducts trend analyses to track emerging industry trends and technologies.
  • Researches, and assists in the piloting the evaluation of new tools, technologies, and/or processes to maintain and enhance the critical system infrastructure.
  • Establish cloud computing templates and implementation guidance for applications that leverage IaaS solutions to meet BCBSA use cases.
  • Integrate application design strategies to include the design of loosely coupled cloud resources to allow for a redundant and resilient end-user application design.
  • Assist in performance analysis and improvements while ensuring security controls are in place protecting the network and data.
  • Work with EIT staff, including Enterprise Architect, Delivery teams, core computing, and application support team to ensure adequate system performance based on business requirements and industry best practices.
  • Documentation of cloud design guidelines for both new business applications and the porting of existing BCBSA Business applications to align with a cloud model.
  • Participate and conduct liaison activities in reviewing the application designs, providing recommended alterations to designs, and partnering with enterprise architects to transform current application design principles to be more cloud-aligned.
  • Coordinate and/or complete the development of all necessary design documentation associated with cloud service solutions.

Requirements:

  • High School Diploma, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, related discipline, or equivalent experience in the field.
  • Masters Degree (preferred)
  • Certification in one Cloud Platform (AWS preferred)
  • Experience with Amazon Linux, Red Hat Linux 8 & 9, and VM, OpenShift, and VMC on AWS
  • 5+ years or more of enterprise-level Infrastructure consulting or implementation experience.
  • Experience with Ansible, Powershell, or other automation environments and scripting technologies.
  • Experience migrating workloads from on-premise to cloud
  • Focus on Infrastructure support, design, build, deployment, and system hardening
  • Experience with network technologies and with system, security, and network monitoring tools
  • Experience using AWS CDK for IaC automation

Skills:

  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPN configuration
  • Familiarity with Containerization
  • Good working knowledge of the technical aspects of:
  • Application protocols, such as HTTP(S), SMTP, SSL, and DNS
  • Common applications of cryptography, such as X.509 PKI, PGP, etc.
  • Knowledge of Active Directory
  • Security event and log management
  • Identity and access management
  • Encryption in the cloud
  • Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
  • Ability to engage in end-to-end troubleshooting of technical issues
  • A strong background in developing Infrastructure automation using Ansible Automation Platform and other cloud orchestration tools is desired.
  • Familiarity with DevOps methodology and tools like Docker, Git, RedHat Satellite.

People Management:

  • No

Language:

English

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