IT Cloud Engineer IV

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The Information Technology (IT) Cloud Engineer IV is responsible for leading the development of the Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) cloud platform and providing technical architecture and design leadership for technology initiatives across the HMH network. This technology leadership role defines best practices for the architecture, configuration, management, administration, automation, and business continuity of the HMH cloud environment - an essential component of the IT network goals and the growth of HMH.

Ensures HMH cloud applications are designed and optimized for reliability, high availability, and resiliency. Performs activities, including but not limited to designing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously automating a large, complex cloud-based computing environment. Also provides guidance and mentorship to team members and serves as a technical liaison between internal departments.

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology; and/or applicable technical certificate; and/or equivalent (4 years) related experience.

• Minimum of 8+ (12+ if no degree) years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, design, and architecture of virtualized servers/cloud systems.

• Must have good consultative, communication, team player, and analytical skills for regular interaction between various teams distributed across HMH.

• Good technical leadership skills and relevant experience working with other highly technical resources through adopting new technologies while also maintaining highly available, mission-critical systems.

• Possess deep technical knowledge and extensive experience with complex IT environments, including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security, and operations; as well as have a solid understanding of cloud services, cloud native architectures, and application delivery models.

• Clear verbal and written communication skills to business/technology leaders, architects, developers, & team members.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with a group of high-performing technical individuals.

• Hands-on experience with agile, Dev Ops, and continuous integration/continuous delivery.
  9. Demonstrated ability to support cloud architecture recommendations and decisions with research and reasoning.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Git Hub, & configuration management tools (i.e., Puppet, Chef, Ansible).

• Experience with architecting, implementing, and maintaining highly available mission‑critical environments for twenty‑four‑seven (24/7) availability.

• Experience working in a defined production change control process and a mature security control posture environment.

• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi‑tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability) and Dev Ops tool chains and processes.

• Demonstrated history of working within deadlines and under pressure.

• Experience working in a healthcare or highly regulated environment.

• Strong understanding of Service‑Oriented Architecture (SOA), object‑oriented analysis and design, and client/server systems.

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, design, and virtualized servers/cloud systems architecture.

• In‑depth knowledge and understanding of container and microservices technologies and related architectures, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Kafka.

• Passionate about new technologies and architecture.

• Keeps current with cloud platform and infrastructure space trends while always searching for…