Cloud Engineer (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.

Availity is a Healthcare IT company headquartered in Jacksonville, FL with an office in Indianapolis, IN and a significant remote workforce as well. Availity is the nation's largest health information network, connecting 2 million providers nationwide and processing more than 12 billion transactions a year, and growing! We work collaboratively with health plans and providers to disrupt an antiquated healthcare system by solving core issues in the way stakeholders communicate. Fixing the broken provider data management process and creating real time communication of risk and quality information are just two of the ways Availity is streamlining this process. Availity also offers providers, hospitals, and health systems revenue cycle and patient financial management solutions. We help prepare our providers for the rise in consumerism and value-based care, so that they can get paid accurately, and timely, for their services.

As an Availity Cloud Engineer, you are responsible for the documentation, development, and maintenance of cloud implementations. This individual is responsible for the hands-on coding and implementation of the designs provided from the Cloud Architects. This individual will aid the Cloud Services team in moving Availity to AWS and is responsible for the development work over the next few years as we get up and running as well as the maintenance piece.

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

To be qualified for this position, you:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in relevant work experience
• 2 - 4 years of progressive work experience with cloud implementations and infrastructure as code
• 3+ years hands on AWS experience is a must
• Experience working with Product and Business Management teams a plus
• Experience working in an entrepreneurial company a plus
• CCSP, AWS Cloud certifications a plus
• Knowledge, skills, and experience to write detailed technical documentation
• Skilled in IAC, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Ansible
• Experience with CICD tooling such as Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes and other container technologies is a plus
• Scripting such as BASH and Python
• Knowledge of development methodologies (primarily Agile/Scrum)
• Experience with AWS and common AWS services
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions

What you will be doing:

• Working in AWS CLI and GitLab to orchestrate builds
• Monitoring JIRA throughout the sprint cycle
• Participate in daily stand ups and status check in meetings
• Builds and maintain infrastructure as code.
• Can read and understand system and functional requirements
• Writes technical specifications
• Reports gaps in requirements to Technical Leads and Cloud Architects
• Prepares thorough documentation of work
• Consults with Cloud Architects and other business partner
• Accurately scopes project time and resources required to complete projects
• Reviews project scope and timeline estimates with senior staff
• Consults with Cloud Architects and business partners to confirm time and resource estimates
• Performs unit testing and debugging. Establishes test conditions based on code specifications
• Consults with Cloud Architects on testing plans and results
• May work with Cloud Architects to resolve/debug errors

Why work at Availity:

• Availity has recently been named a certified "Great Place to Work"! Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams, a Young Professionals Group, a She Can Code IT group for women in tech, and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates.
• 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!
• Don't feel like wearing business attire? Cool, you can wear jeans - we are a casual place.
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, and a 401k match program that is vested 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 $300/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.

At the headquarters:

• You like food trucks? We have them almost daily at our office (when we're back to normal)
• Like food trucks a little too much? We also have an onsite gym with showers
• We appreciate work/life balance! Need to get a quick break in between meetings? We have Ping Pong, Foosball, Arcade games, and XBox to help you decompress - and we have a massage therapist onsite once a week for a little relaxation too
• We've got you covered with free coffee, lemonade and tea anytime you want

Why you want to work on this team:

• This team is central to all things AWS at Availity for the foreseeable future
• This team is working to build out a SaaS platform for customers and phase one is building out a machine learning data store in the Cloud

Next steps in process:

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:

• Manager resume review
• Manager 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.

NOTICE: Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. When required by state law or federal regulation, Availity uses I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification in conjunction with E-Verify to determine employment eligibility. Learn more about E-Verify at http://www.dhs.gov/e-verify.

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