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Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Chattanooga, TN • On-site, Remote

$50.75 - $67.75/hr

Full-time

Posted 18 days ago

Job description

The Cloud Enablement & Engineering Team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. In this fully remote role, you will develop target-state architectures, define enterprise platform strategies, and guide product and engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and business-aligned cloud and AI solutions.
Notes:
  • While this is a remote role, travel to our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required for final interviews.
  • We are unable to hire candidates who live in NY, NJ, NJ, CA or MA.
  • Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams.
  • Collaborates with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools.
  • Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.
  • Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and able to present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.
  • Work with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud specific monitoring tools.
  • Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care and operation transition.
  • Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.

Job Qualifications:
Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience is required.

Experience
  • 8 years - Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
  • Experience with infrastructure cloud engineering and establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.
  • Experience leading large-scale Azure/AWS/GCP migrations and Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e., responsible for cloud project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight, project delivery approach, delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams.
  • Experience in Automation and Development best practices related to Cloud application modernization.
  • Experience with enterprise network design including segmentation models, encryption, logging and monitoring.
  • Experience with firewalls, network authentication controls, and Linux/Windows operating systems.
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail.

Skills/Certifications
  • Deep understanding of Azure (preferred) and/ or AWS experience is required.
  • Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure
  • Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools.
  • Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images, their deployment via Kubernetes based services, DNS/DDI, networking management
  • Knowledge of Terraform/Ansible, GIT based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps/Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline.
  • Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation, and leadership skills.
  • Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences

Number of Openings Available
1
Worker Type:
Employee
Company:
BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.
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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee via-email, the Internet or any other method without a valid, written Direct Placement Agreement in place for this position from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee HR/Talent Acquisition will not be considered. No fee will be paid in the event the applicant is hired by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee as a result of the referral or through other means.

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