Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Enablement & Engineering Team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. In this fully remote role, you will develop target-state architectures, define enterprise platform strategies, and guide product and engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and business-aligned cloud and AI solutions.

 

Notes:

• While this is a remote role, travel to our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required for final interviews.

• We are unable to hire candidates who live in NY, NJ, NJ, CA or MA.

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams.
• Collaborates with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools.
• Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.
• Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and able to present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.
• Work with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud specific monitoring tools.
• Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care and operation transition.
• Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.

 

Job Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience is required.

 Experience

• 8 years - Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with infrastructure cloud engineering and establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.
• Experience leading large-scale Azure/AWS/GCP migrations and Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e., responsible for cloud project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight, project delivery approach, delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams.
• Experience in Automation and Development best practices related to Cloud application modernization.
• Experience with enterprise network design including segmentation models, encryption, logging and monitoring.
• Experience with firewalls, network authentication controls, and Linux/Windows operating systems.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail.

 Skills/Certifications

• Deep understanding of Azure (preferred) and/ or AWS experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure
• Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools.
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images, their deployment via Kubernetes based services, DNS/DDI, networking management
• Knowledge of Terraform/Ansible, GIT based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps/Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline.
• Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation, and leadership skills.
• Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences

Number of Openings Available

1

Worker Type:

Employee

Company:

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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