Associate Automation Engineer Jobs in Spokane, WA

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Who We Are Looking For:

Every day, Cambia's dedicated Platform Infrastructure Engineers are living our mission to make health care easier and lives better by building the platforms that power our products. As a senior platform leader and modernization catalyst on the Platform Engineering / Infrastructure Services team, you will lead the implementation of complex, business-critical infrastructure and automation in a high-scale, high-uptime, high-security environment.You'llcombine rigorous engineering discipline with modern platformexpertisein cloud, networking, automation, and reliability engineering-tackling complex technical challenges, influencing leadership decisions, and mentoring engineers to elevate team capabilities. You will helpestablishenterprise best practices and reference architectures for secure, scalable cloud foundations, enablement tooling, and hybrid integrations, and champion responsible automation (including AI-accelerated workflows) that improves how we build,operate, and scale at Cambia.

Do you thrive as part of a collaborative, caring team?Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:

Platform Infrastructure Engineer V would have a bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field and 10 - 12 years of experience developing tools in support of production environments or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Recommended (notrequired) certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Associate/Professional), AWS CertifiedSysOpsAdministrator (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified Developer (Associate/Professional).

Skills and Attributes:

• Deepexpertisedesigning and operating cloud platforms at scale (AWS and/or Azure), with strong reliability, security, and availability fundamentals.

• Modern infrastructure engineering skills: Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (preferred: Terraform and/or Ansible) with disciplined change control and automation.

• Strong delivery practices: Git-based workflows (preferred: GitHub or GitLab), comfort with frequent incremental changes, testing, and repeatable deployments.

• Proven experience building and evolving CI/CD and platform enablement tooling (preferred:CircleCI)

• Operational excellence: observability strategy (metrics/logs/traces), incident leadership, root-cause analysis, and driving systemic fixes that reduce toil.

• Security-by-design mindset: secure baselines, identity and access patterns,secretsmanagement, and alignment with compliance requirements.

• Modernization catalyst: defines platform standards, publishes reference architectures, and champions adoption across teams to improve developer experience and production outcomes.

• Influence and communication: consults with engineering and business partners, translates needs into pragmatic platform roadmaps, and drives alignment across teams.

• Player/coach leadership: mentors engineers, raises the bar on engineering practices, and leads through action on complex, highly visible initiatives.

• Cost and efficiency orientation: experience driving operational efficiencies and cost optimization (FinOps awareness), including vendor engagement where applicable.

• Responsible automationmindsetevaluates and applies emerging capabilities (including AI-accelerated workflows whereappropriate)to improve delivery speed, reliability, and quality.

What You Will Do at Cambia:

• Serve as a player/coach who balances hands-on delivery with team development-building proof-of-concepts and production-grade platform solutions while coaching engineers on best practices and modern infrastructure patterns.

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable cloud foundations and shared services (networking, identity, compute, storage, and runtime enablement) that accelerate product delivery.

• Establish and evolve enterprise best practices, golden paths, and reference architectures forInfrastructureas Code, CI/CD, environment provisioning, and policy-as-code.

• Influence platform strategy and roadmap: partner with engineering and business leaders to shape priorities, estimate and plan work, and deliver measurable improvements in uptime, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Drive modernization of platform operations through observability standards, resilient design, and automation that reduces toil and improves incident response outcomes.

• Lead through action in requirements analysis, systems design, secure configuration, code quality, test automation, and documentation for platform components and tooling.

• Champion operational efficiencies and cost optimization (FinOps practices where applicable), including right-sizing, capacity planning, and vendor/technology evaluations.

• Engage vendors and internal partners as needed (security reviews, support engagements, roadmap input) to ensure platform technologies meet reliability, security, and compliance needs.

• Continuously review industry trends and emerging technologies; responsibly incorporate improvements (including AI-accelerated workflows whereappropriate)to modernize how we build andoperatethe platform.