Principal Cloud Engineer – AI/ML
Elevance Health14 days ago
Overland Park, KS, USA +6 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and operate AI-enabled cloud engineering capabilities across account vending, landing zones, CaaS, FinOps, developer onboarding, and application transformation.
- Develop production agents, reusable agent skills, MCP servers, adapters, APIs, automation services, and supporting integrations.
- Automate cloud account and environment provisioning, prerequisite checks, guardrail validation, access workflows, onboarding, and deployment handoffs.
- Enhance Kubernetes-based container platforms with self-service deployment, policy compliance, observability, troubleshooting, and remediation capabilities.
- Create FinOps tooling and agents for allocation, tagging, anomaly detection, rightsizing, forecasting, commitment utilization, waste reduction, and optimization recommendations.
- Build application transformation accelerators for discovery, dependency analysis, containerization, migration planning, modernization, and implementation artifacts.
- Apply identity, data protection, audit, evaluation, lifecycle, responsible AI, and security controls in partnership with enterprise teams.
- Support production incidents, instrument product and operational metrics, and improve adoption, reliability, latency, cost, and developer experience.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture strategy, enterprise blueprints, reference implementations, code reviews, pairing, mentoring, consulting, and standards development.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, plus at least 8 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Recent hands-on experience building and operating production cloud platforms and software.
- Ability to author and review application code, infrastructure as code, APIs, automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.
- Deep experience with at least one major public cloud provider and cloud provisioning, landing zones, identity, networking, policy, logging, and monitoring patterns.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container platform capabilities, including deployment automation, security, observability, reliability, and lifecycle management.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java, including APIs, event-driven integrations, SDKs, automation services, and platform components.
- Hands-on experience building production generative AI or agent solutions involving tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, state management, structured outputs, evaluation, observability, and guardrails.
- Experience building MCP servers, clients, or comparable agent-to-tool integrations with authentication, authorization, schema management, error handling, policy enforcement, and audit logging.
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, secure CI/CD, DevSecOps, secrets management, least-privilege access, and production support.
- Working knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost management, plus experience with application migration, modernization, containerization, or platform onboarding.
- Experience integrating agents into developer portals, IDEs, command-line tools, chat interfaces, or workflow automation platforms.
- Experience with responsible AI controls, AI security testing, agent evaluation, and human approval patterns in production.
- Experience in regulated environments, preferably healthcare, and effective collaboration across matrixed enterprise teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring associates to be in-office one to two days per week, with alternate locations considered within commuting distance.
- Merit increases, paid holidays, paid time off, and incentive bonus programs.
- Medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) with match, stock purchase plan, wellness programs, and financial education resources.
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About Elevance Health
Fueled by our bold purpose to improve the health of humanity, we are transforming from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner. Our nearly 100,000 associates serve more than 118 million people, at every stage of health. We address a full range of needs with an integrated whole health approach, powered by industry-leading capabilities and a digital platform for health. We believe that improving health for everyone is possible. It begins by redefining health, reimagining the health system, and strengthening our communities.