Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Anticipated End Date:

2026-05-22

Position Title:

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Preferred Location: Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for delivery of end-to-end application, system development and maintenance on complex multi technology platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments.

How You Will Make An Impact: 

• Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines.
• Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards.
• Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking.
• Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations.
• Automates management of cloud networks (VPC/VNet), Transit Gateways, DNS, Onpremise Connections, Load balancers, Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications.
• Automates management of cloud security controls - NSGs, IAM roles, policies, etc. to comply with Elevance Health standards.
•  Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components.
•  Leads the ITIL processes - incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings. 
• Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary. 
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross-functional teams. 
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements. 
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written. 
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• May own technical testing to ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed, and system is implemented according to plan.
• Assesses status and supports data information planning. 
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system. 
• Will begin to set direction at the project/service level and influences decision-making. 
• Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs of the technical solutions. 
• Identifies and propose strategies around technical problems affecting team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions. 
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues. Supports vendor evaluation. 

Minimum Requirements: 
Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years related experience; multi-dimensional platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. 

Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences:

• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, networking or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role preferred.
• 5 years with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, APIGateways, Storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc. 
• 5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred.
• 5 years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies (Terraform, Clou