IT Applications Engineer VI, Container Platform Operations Lead

• Application Design, Architecture

Tech Support

This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides operational leadership for the enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department supports a growing portfolio of business-critical applications and shared technology capabilities that require consistent service reliability, operational readiness, security, compliance, and resilience.

The Container Platform Operations Lead centralizes operational accountability and serves as the primary coordination and escalation point for platform health, major incidents, tenant-impacting risks, service readiness, and operational performance. The position partners with internal support organizations and external service providers to establish clear ownership, effective support models, reliable operating procedures, and measurable service expectations across the container platform ecosystem.

The role leads operational governance across incident, problem, change, capacity, availability, vulnerability, compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery practices. It also maintains the operational improvement backlog, strengthens monitoring and service-health reporting, and converts operational lessons into preventive controls and engineering priorities. In close partnership with the Engineering Lead, this position improves service stability, reduces operational risk, and ensures the enterprise container platform remains ready to support mission-critical healthcare services as adoption grows.

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices.

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members;
  
  and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications.
• Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.
• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.
• Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs.
• Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to…