Cloud Engineer

Join a tech company that’s making a difference in healthcare

At Sectra, we take a lot of pride as a market leader in medical IT and secure communications. Our customers operate in some of society’s most critical functions, and we are uniquely positioned to help them optimize patient-centered care. Our modular and scalable enterprise imaging solutions allow healthcare providers to grow from ology to ology, while our encrypted communication systems protect the most sensitive information for customers around the world

About the position

Sectra is looking for a Cloud Engineer that will assist in maintaining, supporting, improving, and deploying the Sectra product suites in the Microsoft Azure cloud as a SaaS offering. The position will report to the regional cloud operations manager.

As a Cloud Engineer, you will:

• Deploy and operate Sectra’s complete SaaS offering that is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure native services. This includes:
  
  • Drive and support system reliability, scale and performance activities
  • Ensure the solution is kept up-to-date from OS-level up to application level (Sectra’s own products and 3rd party)
  • Assist with upgrading, installing, and configuring monitoring solutions for Windows and Linux servers
  • Operate resilience measures such as Backup/Restore routines, load-balancing and other means of scaling across the solution and per individual Virtual Machine
  • Develop solutions integrating Microsoft Azure commercial clouds with services hosted on-premises and in other clouds
  • Understand networking technologies and how to securely interconnect physical and virtual networks
  • Escalate, own, and stay focused in driving the resolution of issues through the appropriate channels and team members, using highly effective communication skills
  • Continuously work with improving and automating our SaaS offering to optimize for our own efficiency as well as the value provided to the customer. This includes:
    
  • Develop and maintain software solutions/scripts to support automation of cloud operations, configuration, and administration
    
  • Create scripts to creating, auditing, and monitoring Azure resources
    
  • Develop new solutions that are future-proof towards both existing and future solutions
    
  • Work with operational cloud security including:
    
  • Define and implement secure networking solutions between on-premises data centers and commercial clouds
    
  • Support security audits, accreditation, and certification processes
    
  • Ensure that all cloud solutions follow both internal as well as external security and compliance controls applicable towards our business segments
    
  • Maintain and administer security measures such as vulnerability scanning, security logging and anti-malware and endpoint protection
    
  • Assess and maintain security configuration on application, solution and subscription level
    
  • Audit and apply Azure security best practices to all types of Azure resources
    
  • Maintain and administer identity access management (IAM)

As a Cloud Engineer, the following requirements apply:

• A 4-year degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with an excellent academic record
• Minimum of 1 year experience in the technology field
• up to 4 years of strong experience with public clouds such as Azure and AWS
• Have experience with Windows, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, and SQL
• Have experience with computer networking in a cloud environment, including firewalls, Active Directory, load balancers, VPN, DNS, update management, and security
• Capable of technical deep dives into infrastructure, databases, and applications as needed, yet cognitively agile enough to develop support and deployment strategies
• After-hours on-call support occasionally required
• Able to travel to customer sites as needed (up to 50% depending on business needs)

Preferred:

• Based in Shelton, CT
• Experience in healthcare IT or other regulated industries
• Experience in working with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes)

How we make your job meaningful and rewarding

At Sectra, we embody the energy of a young startup while enjoying the stability of a well-established brand, vast global experience, and a product backed by 40+ years of innovation. The result? An agile, invigorating, highly supportive, and fun environment that empowers our team to do their best work and make a difference in people’s lives ever