IT Cloud Engineer Server Platform

Job Description

This role provides the vision, strategy, functionality, and technology solutions for creating and maintaining distributed platforms for both public and private cloud infrastructure-based solutions. This entails the design and use of flexible platforms that deliver features, functionality, and services compatible with industry-leading providers while allowing legacy systems to interact safely when required. This position requires the necessary skills to provide technology research, evaluation, development, and delivery in support of infrastructure deployment solution life cycles.

This role provides the vision, strategy, functionality, and technology solutions for creating and maintaining distributed platforms for both public and private cloud infrastructure-based solutions. This entails the design and use of flexible platforms that deliver features, functionality, and services compatible with industry-leading providers while allowing legacy systems to interact safely when required. This position requires the necessary skills to provide technology research, evaluation, development, and delivery in support of infrastructure deployment solution life cycles.

This position collaborates with the Information Technology teams to lead the organization toward the deployment of technologies that may include PaaS, SaaS, hosted, and on-premises solutions – which will allow for flexible, secure, on-demand cloud-like functionality and services while endeavoring to provide resiliency and achieve cost reduction, while maintaining a highly secure and flexible environment.

• Acts as a high level escalation tier for operational support in assigned technical areas.
• Conducts proof-of-concept testing in a lab environment.
• Creates infrastructure design documents to outline production deployments.
• Creates, updates, and maintains supporting documentation for technology standards.
• Deploys new technology to production environment.
• Designs infrastructure solutions to support business requirements.
• Ensures assigned technologies are in alignment with the business.
• Researches and implements hybrid cloud technology.
• Supports high-level strategy for enterprise server environment.
• Works directly with business stakeholders to gather IT infrastructure requirements.
• Works with technology vendors and technical SMEs to produce corporate standards with regards to assigned technology areas.
• Integrates multiple systems and/or technologies.
• Acts as a team player with a high level of interpersonal skills.
• Regular reliable attendance is expected and required.
• Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies' mission and values, adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct, and leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs.
• Executes good judgment and demonstrates personal accountability.
• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.
• Performs other functions as assigned by management.

• Acts as a primary engineer for assigned technology areas.
• Maintains a highly performant and optimized infrastructure environment.
• Significant contributor to budget and expenditures for assigned technology areas.
• Significant contributor to enterprise strategy in the assigned technology area.
• Assists in the RFI/RFP Process.

• Assists with mentoring of lower-level engineers.
• Establishes business justifications for purchases made within assigned technology areas.
• Focuses on automation for job-related tasks.
• Performs system analysis and capacity planning of computing assets.
• Acts as primary SME for assigned technology areas.
• Significant contributor to automation workflows.
• Stays current with leading hybrid cloud technology for assigned technical areas.

• Acts as trusted advisor to the management team.
• Emphasizes technology cost optimization when designing new solutions.
• Serves as internal mentor for peers.
• Leads business critical projects efforts for IT…