Enterprise Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer to help design, build, secure, and operate VUMC’s cloud environments-primarily AWS, with GCP as a secondary platform. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across cloud engineering and operations, enable application teams through automation and self-service, and help establish standards that improve security, reliability, and scalability.

You’ll work closely with engineering and application teams to support both cloud migrations and new cloud-native development, while promoting consistent governance, best practices, and DevSecOps patterns across the organization., * Design and implement secure cloud solutions aligned with rapid and secure development principles.

• Build and evolve cloud infrastructure delivery strategies, including standards, processes, technologies, and tools.
• Translate business needs into cloud solutions by understanding cloud use cases and making practical architectural recommendations.
• Create automation and self-service capabilities for application development teams.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and tooling using software engineering best practices.
• Support cloud platforms through engineering, administration, troubleshooting, analysis, trending, and reporting.
• Build and support cloud infrastructure for new applications and microservices as workloads shift to AWS/GCP.
• Partner with development teams to evaluate requirements and recommend implementation, deployment, and provisioning approaches.
• Develop enablement tools such as:
• CI/CD pipelines
• Container scheduling solutions
• Custom engineering utilities and applications
• Perform ongoing system reviews and recommend improvements to security, performance, cost, and operational maturity.
• Stay current with commercial and open-source DevSecOps tools, architectures, and practices.
• Coach and review the work of other engineers, contributing to team capability growth.
• Collaborate in a team environment using practices like peer coding, design reviews, and code reviews.

• Strong hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS (primary); working knowledge of GCP (secondary).
• Proven experience creating automated, repeatable solutions using PowerShell.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and building reusable modules and patterns.
• Solid understanding of and experience working within an SDLC using GitHub, including:
• Branching strategies
• Pull requests
• Code reviews
• CI/CD workflows
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a collaborative engineering environment (peer coding, architecture/design sessions, shared ownership)., You should have demonstrated experience applying best practices for cloud governance, including:

AWS governance

• Establishing and managing AWS Organizations
• Implementing AWS Control Tower
• Setting up and managing Budgets / cost controls

GCP governance

• Establishing and managing Projects
• Implementing Folders / hierarchy
• Applying Policies
• Setting up and managing Budgets / cost controls