Cloud Engineer II (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.
We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.
Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

Reporting to the Sr. Application Development Manager, Cloud Engineer II will configure, streamline, and improve Availity’s overall cloud infrastructure within multiple independent cloud environments. The ideal candidate is an expert in 24/7 operations with high performing and scaling systems that meet a high degree of uptime, an expert in all facets of Cloud hosting operations with a focus on lean architecture and cost savings as well as an expert in programming languages, with a deep passion for automation.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Why work on this team:

• This team allows you to work cross functionally with different organizations across Availity
• This team is solely operating in cloud-based environments – AWS today
• This team is focusing heavily on automation and this individual will have the opportunity to directly influence how this team handles automation moving forward

Role qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• Experience with orchestration frameworks (Apache Airflow)
• Experience in a DevOps focused role
• Experience in containerized deployment using Kubernetes (EKS)
• Experience running Cloud at scale
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible or other similar technologies
• Experience with AWS (EMR, EMR Serverless, MWAA, EKS, Lambda)
• Experience with GitHub/Gitlab for repositories
• Experience with scripting using Python (preferred), JavaScript, Perl, or similar scripting languages
• Serverless computing experience with containers (EKS/AKS/ GKE) and VM based workloads along with a solid understanding of the trade-offs of different serverless implementations emerging in public Cloud
• Deep understanding of the key concepts and practices of Cloud observability, coupled with experience implementing robust systems that leverage metrics, logs, and traces to provide holistic state of the Cloud operations
• Deep understanding of how to apply best practices around monitoring, alerting, logging and have implementation experience with one or more (CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic)

You will set yourself apart:

• Passion to learn and bias towards action
• Experience with data visualization tools (QuickSight, Cognos, Tableau)
• Experience with networking principals within AWS
• Experience with relational and columnar based data warehouses (RDS, Redshift)
• Experience in Spark application development
• Experience with data cataloging principals and implementations
• Experience with microservice architectures
• AWS DevOps Engineer (professional level) certification, highly preferred
• Experience with healthcare information technology

What you will be doing:

• Utilizing Terraform daily for deployments
• Using various programming languages to build new features for large, distributed processing systems
• Raising tickets and work with engineering and Devops for enhancements in products and tools
• Work with the DevOps team who are developing infrastructure solutions that will be consumed and utilized by this team - contribute as needed
• Creating and finalizing automation in an effort to enable our infrastructure and IT systems to be more scalable and lower our manual labor overhead
• Develop automated reporting that enables teams to leverage best practices for running efficient Cloud solutions
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Client Services on CI/CD and automated deployment and event management
• Generate and provide recommendations on optimizing usage of Cloud services
• Ensure compliance with security best practices including continuous monitoring
• Participating in a 24x7x365 on call rotation – monthly depending on team size

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review
• Manager resume review
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager video interview
• Technical panel video interview
• Panel video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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