Overview:  We are seeking highly qualified professionals that will contribute to our ongoing growth and success. The Cloud Systems Engineer is a fast-paced position in a rapid growth enterprise environment. The ideal candidate is a person that strives to achieve excellence backed by strong architectural, system design, and automation experience. The ideal candidate is a person that strives to achieve excellence backed by strong architectural, system design, and automation experience. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and pushing the envelope with cutting edge ideas and leaps in intuition. If you are looking to be a part of a team to move cloud technology, public, private and hybrid, to the next level this could be your next great adventure.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assumes responsibility for defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for Microsoft Azure.

• Supports application engineering teams to design software applications, including the migration and transformation of legacy solutions to the cloud, that adhere to Inovalon policies for secure software development and cloud solutions.

• Applies commercial cloud best practices to design, develop, and implement Azure platform-level features.
• Develops infrastructure as code for user groups that rely on these services (e.g., automatic provisioning of accounts, environments, VPC configurations, security, networking, logging, and statistics visualization).
• Recommends process and architecture improvements.
• Collaborates with product, architecture, and security teams to ensure solutions respond to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Stays current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for Inovalon.
• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within CCS Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position.
• Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Company; and
• Uphold responsibilities relative to the separation of duties for applicable processes and procedures within your job function.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a systems engineer, site reliability engineer, or cloud engineer.
• Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, and infrastructure operations for Azure.
• Knowledge of automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Azure Pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, or similar.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e., sitting for long periods of time);
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force;
• Frequently or constantly to lift, carry push, pull or otherwise move objects and repetitive motions;
• Subject to inside environmental conditions; and
• Travel for this position will include less than 5% locally usually for training purposes.