Cloud Platform Engineer

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join an excellent team and work to advance their IT operations. 

The work of this role may be conducted remotely with full access to the needed operating systems and technology. Candidates must reside in the United States to work 100% remote.

The Office of Information Service’s mission is to deliver technology solutions and services that support Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Human Services in helping Oregonians achieve health, well-being, and independence.

The Oregon Health Authority is committed to:

• Eliminating health inequities in Oregon by 2030
• Becoming an anti-racist organization
• Developing and promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate programs,
• Developing and retaining a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce that represents the diversity, cultures, strengths, and values of the people of Oregon.
• Click here to learn more about OHA’s mission, vision, and core values.

What you will do!

The Cloud Platform Engineer provides expert consultation to management and professional IS staff. Conducts comprehensive analysis, planning, development, implementation and coordination for the operations, maintenance, installation, and construction of information systems. The focus of these systems will be cloud implementations including new systems and migrating existing systems while adhering to the agency cloud adoption framework.

The State of Oregon has adopted a Cloud Forward strategy. This position should use the Cloud Forward strategy as guiding principles.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will provide expert-level in-depth support, architectural and testing guidance for technically sophisticated computer software and data systems that are foundational to the ongoing operation of large scale, mission critical computer systems within the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS).

In this role, you will design, construct, operate, and maintain infrastructure platforms to host applications developed by Software Engineering teams. The customer base served includes technically sophisticated end-users, software vendors and suppliers, systems programmers, technical contractors, system management staff and various other systems operation staff.

This is a new position assigned to a team tasked with building and operating an enterprise cloud hosting platform.

What we are looking for!

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: (Please clearly outline how you meet the minimum requirements and special qualifications in your application/resume/cover letter. Failure to do so will disqualify you from consideration)

(a) Six (6) years of information systems experience in:

Planning, building, and/or monitoring cloud platforms and infrastructure.

OR

(b) An Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, OR completion of a two (2) year accredited vocational training program in information technology or related field;

AND

four (4) years of information systems experience in:

Planning, building, and/or monitoring cloud platforms and infrastructure.

OR

(c) A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

AND

two (2) years of information systems experience in:

Planning, building, and/or monitoring cloud platforms and infrastructure.

OR

(d) Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field may substitute for all of the above.

Desired Attributes

• Functional knowledge of at least one leading cloud computing platform such as Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Direct experience in containers and orchestration of containers on a cloud platform.
• Experience in cloud application support, development, programming, testing and/or database administration.
• Understanding of Cloud native development, DevOps, Azure DevOps (or similar), PaaS/SaaS/LaaS/DBaaS solutions, configuration management tools, and/or other cloud computing platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud platform administration tools for identity management, cost management, resource management, monitoring tools, security controls, and compliance reporting.
• Proven experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure solutions that support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads, including optimizing performance for AI model training, data processing, and scalable deployment of AI-driven applications.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work with and facilitate diverse groups and individuals. This includes the ability to prioritize workloads and the ability to analyze complex procedures, processes and polices. The person in this position must have experience coordinating projects with other Information Systems professionals, and in writing documentation according to established standards.  
• Proficiency in deploying solutions to cloud platforms, with a focus on serverless or containerized applications.
• Ability to participate in the advancement of systems delivery concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools.
• Capability to select and adapt tools and support methodologies. Specifically, those related to cloud solutions.
• Experience in advancing health equity, addressing systemic health disparities, and collaborating with diverse, vulnerable, and underrepresented populations.
• Understanding of cloud monitoring tools and experience with responding to system and user needs based on data from monitoring.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of GitOps concepts and tools for implementation.
• Familiarity with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Knowledge of cloud solution architecture including hybrid cloud systems with significantly different technology stacks both on premise and with multiple cloud providers.
• Understanding of the concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools of system development. This includes selecting and adapting, where necessary, appropriate tools and support methodologies for use by their team.  The incumbent in this position will participate in the advancement of systems delivery concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools.
• Experience building and releasing infrastructure-as-code (IAC) in controlled environments with an understanding of lifecycle configuration management.
• Project Management knowledge including understanding of project management methodologies such as waterfall and Agile along with their respective processes.
• Ability to estimate resource and schedule requirements for complex system development efforts.
• Experience writing scripts to build automation and tools using (but not limited too) PowerShell, Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, etc.

What's in it for you?

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• Eleven (11) paid holidays.
• Eight (8) hours of vacation per month, eligible to be used after 6 months of service.
• Eight (8) hours of sick leave per month, eligible to be used as accrued.
• 24 hours of personal business leave per fiscal year, eligible to be used after 6 months of service.
• Pension and retirement programs 
• Opportunity to potentially receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
• Continuous growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to serve your community and make an impact through meaningful work.
• A healthy work/life balance, including fulltime remote options as well.

Salary Range: $6,268 - $9,472 Monthly

Location: Salem, OR / Remote

Application Deadline: 10/27/2024

https://oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/SOR_External_Career_Site/job/Salem--OHA--Fairview-Industrial-Drive-3990/REQ-165482-Cloud-Platform-Engineer--Information-Systems-Specialist-7--100---Remote-work_REQ-165482