Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Aya Healthcare seeks a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Architecture team. This role supports a large-scale SaaS application and infrastructure primarily hosted on Azure. It is critical to designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions that ensure scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency across the platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong DevOps, Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Platform Infrastructure Architecture background, with bonus points for experience in software development or a related field. 

This person will primarily work PST business hours. 

Who We Are: 

We’re a $10+ billion, rapidly growing workforce solutions provider in the healthcare industry. We deliver tech-enabled services that help healthcare organizations meet and manage their contingent labor needs. We build and manage tech-enabled marketplaces for national and local healthcare talent and deliver contingent labor management solutions through our proprietary software platform.

At Aya, we’re obsessed with creating exceptional experiences for our clients, clinicians and employees. In fact, we put employee satisfaction above all else. Our team members are responsible for incomparable customer experience and we know that happy employees are critical to maintaining happy clients. We foster an entrepreneurial, high-energy, low-bureaucracy culture and value innovative thinking and creative problem solving. We embrace diversity in thought and backgrounds unified by a commitment to high achievement. When you join Aya, you’ll be surrounded by teammates who care about you as an individual and leaders who will help you grow both personally and professionally.

Responsibilities: 

• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy: Lead the design and evolution of Azure-based cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with platform architecture strategies and organizational goals. Define best practices for infrastructure design that supports high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance. 
• Platform Engineering Leadership: Act as a technical leader within the Platform Architecture team, guiding infrastructure modernization initiatives and platform improvements. Develop strategies for migrating legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and performance optimization.
• Security Engineering: Collaborate with Security Engineering teams to implement security best practices across the cloud environment, including identity and access management (IAM), network security, encryption, and compliance with industry standards.
• Performance Tuning & Optimization: Lead efforts to continuously monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of cloud resources and applications. Implement load balancing, auto-scaling, and cost optimization strategies to improve system efficiency and reduce operational costs.
• Platform Infrastructure Architecture: Provide architectural guidance for building resilient and highly available cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with other Platform Architects and Engineers to align infrastructure solutions withoverall platform strategy and application needs.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Software Development, DevOps, SRE, and Security Engineering, to support the continuous improvement of our platform. Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in cloud infrastructure design and management.
• Documentation & Standards: Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure architecture, processes, and best practices. Contribute to establishing standards for cloud engineering, DevOps, and security practices. 

Required Qualifications:

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. At least 10+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Architecture roles, with a strong focus on Azure.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Advanced