Cloud Platform Engineer III

Overview

This role requires U.S. citizenship to meet federal contract requirements related to access to sensitive government data.

The Dev Ops Engineer III (Cloud Platform Engineer III) is a senior level technical contributor responsible for the development, automation, and maintenance of the organization’s multi-cloud ecosystem. This role focuses on refactoring legacy infrastructure into resilient, standardized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to eliminate single points of failure and operational drag. The candidate participates in architectural and design decisions while contributing as a primary technical resource for Terraform, Cloud Formation, and cloud-native services.

Working closely with development, security, and networking teams, the Dev Ops Engineer III implements complex production environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The focus is on driving scalability through high-level automation—transitioning from manual intake to self-service orchestration—while ensuring strict adherence to global security, IAM governance, and compliance standards. This position follows agile workflows and delivery timelines. This position has no responsibility for providing care to patients.

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission.

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Overview


This role requires U.S. citizenship to meet federal contract requirements related to access to sensitive government data.


The Dev Ops Engineer III (Cloud Platform Engineer III) is a senior level technical contributor responsible for the development, automation, and maintenance of the organization’s multi-cloud ecosystem. This role focuses on refactoring legacy infrastructure into resilient, standardized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to eliminate single points of failure and operational drag. The candidate participates in architectural and design decisions while contributing as a primary technical resource for Terraform, Cloud Formation, and cloud-native services.

Working closely with development, security, and networking teams, the Dev Ops Engineer III implements complex production environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The focus is on driving scalability through high-level automation—transitioning from manual intake to self-service orchestration—while ensuring strict adherence to global security, IAM governance, and compliance standards. This position follows agile workflows and delivery timelines. This position has no responsibility for providing care to patients.

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission.

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The Corporate Overview:
The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes

Responsibilities


Essential Functions

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Development:
  Contributes advanced development and refactoring of Terraform and Cloud Formation codebases. Develops reusable modules and standardized network patterns to ensure infrastructure parity across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• REST API Development & Integration:
  Designs and develops custom code to interface with REST APIs for cloud service providers and internal platforms (e.g., Service Now, Git Hub, Beyond Trust). This includes creating automated middleware or scripts to…