Senior Cloud Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW

Working within in the platforms team, the Senior Cloud Engineer, engineers and builds systems and services furnished by the infrastructure service delivery group. This is a hands-on engineering role chiefly centered around Amazon Web Services and some Microsoft Azure Services. We seek an engineer with demonstrated experience of migrating to Amazon Web Services and is comfortable creating infrastructure as code, and automation solutions. The ideal individual will be comfortable working in support of business objectives. We seek a seasoned professional who has a customer focused execution and a track record of process improvement in previous positions.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME ®, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the health care community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come. We also continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, workplace culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community, and the broader medical education landscape.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• As an integral member of the engineering team design and integrate secure and scalable solutions into the organization's infrastructure and AWS, based on developing business requirements. Ensure that projects designed in group meet our required security criteria according to the Board policies and Enterprise Architecture Standards
• Plan and deploy reliable, secure, scalable, high availability systems. Ensure consistent standards and configuration issues related to installations and administration of systems including upgrades, patches, fixes, etc.
• Builds AWS resources using cloud-native thinking
• Builds and maintains scalable computing infrastructure in the cloud
• Provides technical support designing, implementing, and maintaining Cloud based solutions. Identifies, resolves, or escalates platform or software issues.
• Develop and implement strategies for abuse prevention and improved security
• Research and implement ways to optimize AWS operating cost
• Work in a fast-paced continuous learning environment
• Be the AWS expert on our engineering team, and work with developers to use AWS to its full potential

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated capability in Amazon Web Services Implementation and migration effort
• Demonstrated capability to develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code
• Strong all-around knowledge of AWS and how to apply it to DevSecOps, InfraOps, and CI/CD
• Identity Management and Access Management/Security Concepts (Oauth II, Kerberos, Active Directory, ADFS, Microsoft RBAC, AD-Connect, SSO, Keyvault (Certs, Secrets, Connection Strings)
• Ability to analyze wide range of complex enterprise-wide issues in providing end to end services. Broad understanding across all Infrastructure technologies being utilized with NBME including cloud-based providers (Salesforce, Boomi and Azure in addition to AWS) Problem Solving Skills and the ability to independently propose new solutions
• Scripting skills utilizing PowerShell, Python, etc to automate deployments and routine tasks.
• Development experience in Python, focused on data and APIs (applicants with Java engineering experience also considered)
• Experience migrating applications to AWS platforms and integrating third party products on AWS.
• Bamboo/GitHub/Jenkins/ AWS pipeline
• Understanding of Microservices and event driven architecture
• Boomi, API Gateway knowledge and experience
• ITIL experience is a plus. Knowledge of Incident, Change, and Problem and Service management frameworks is a must to be able to provide end to end service delivery required in the NBME environments.
• Excellent communication and technical skills. Professional developments such as interpersonal skills and technical skills are a must. Must be able to communicate effectively with technical staff and executives

Experience

• Minimum 7-10 years applicable experience
• AWS Certification Associate Architect desired
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies

Education

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of equivalent education and experience

About NBME:

NBME offers a versatile selection of high-quality assessments and educational services for students, professionals, educators, regulators and institutions dedicated to the evolving needs of medical education and health care. To ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality, stay relevant and align to the current curriculum in medical schools and training programs, we rely on a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who help develop our exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

We are committed to meeting the needs of educators and learners globally with assessment products and expert services such as NBME® , , s, the ® Program and . Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards, NBME develops and manages the , which measures the ability to apply knowledge and skills that form the basis of safe and effective patient care. Our Competency-based Assessment unit is focused on new methods as well as the optimization of assessment in the workplace and education.

As a result of leadership in ongoing research, innovative measurement practices and the exploration of forward-thinking assessment modalities and improvements, NBME advances assessment science. Our grant and funding opportunities further support this dedication to medical education and assessment science. We help develop the next generation of assessment professionals through our . Through the , and , researchers and educators can continue to improve the assessment of health care professionals around the world.

NBME views diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as foundational and enduring to our strategy and vision. We continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape. Our commitment manifests in our hiring and staff development, recruitment for committees, grants programs, design and review of our assessments, and involvement in our local and national communities.

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The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

COVID-19 Considerations:

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment, subject to potential reasonable accommodations for legitimate medical or religious reasons which prevent such vaccination. Applicants who have received a conditional offer of employment will be requested to provide information about their COVID-19 vaccination status.

NBME is an equal opportunity employer as defined by the EEOC.