Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +35 more states.

📋 Description

• Direct cross-functional teams in the design, implementation, and optimization of Banner Health’s multi-cloud infrastructure encompassing Azure, AWS, and OCI.

• Assist in steering the long-term cloud strategy to ensure scalability, security, resiliency, and cost-efficiency.

• Guide cloud adoption and migration efforts, elevate cloud maturity, enhance performance, implement best practices, and spearhead cloud-based innovation.

• Counsel IT partners and business units to guarantee successful solution delivery on cloud platforms.

• Offer strategic and technical guidance for multi-cloud environments as well as for cloud architecture and governance initiatives.

• Design, develop, and supervise platform engineering service offerings.

• Provide thought leadership in cloud-native technologies, DevOps, platform engineering, automation, and observability.

• Establish and maintain secure cloud connectivity utilizing AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Oracle FastConnect, or Google Cloud Interconnect.

• Integrate cloud solutions with on-premises infrastructure.

• Oversee disaster recovery and response strategies for cloud outages, security incidents, and other emergencies.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation, architecture diagrams, disaster recovery plans, and execute gap analyses.

• Create proof of concepts and innovative production service offerings.

• Design and implement automation tools for efficient deployment of cloud services.

• Lead and mentor cloud engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.

• A minimum of 15 years in software engineering, digital engineering, and application modernization.

• At least 5 years of experience in designing and developing cloud and microservices at scale.

• Proven experience in optimizing Kubernetes-deployed workloads on cloud platforms.

• Familiarity with AI development tools.

• Experience in leading peers to deliver enterprise solutions.

• Knowledge of platform operating models and product-driven digital engineering.

• Practical experience in designing and scaling digital applications on cloud platforms, ideally AWS and Azure.

• Experience with large-scale cloud migrations and modernization projects.

• Preferred professional-level certifications in public cloud platforms.

• Strongly desired experience in Healthcare Information Technology.

• In-depth knowledge of at least one cloud provider among Google, AWS, and Azure, along with working knowledge of other cloud services.

• Experience with optimizing cloud costs.

• Familiarity with relevant coding, scripting, software development, database, CI/CD, container, observability, security, and work-management tools and platforms.

• Candidates must reside in one of the following states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, or WY.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and financial security benefit plans.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards package.

• Drug-free workplace environment.