Cloud Platform Engineer III
University of Utah Health2 months ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and refactor Terraform and CloudFormation Infrastructure-as-Code codebases, reusable modules, and standardized multi-cloud network patterns.
- Design REST API integrations, middleware, and scripts for cloud providers and enterprise platforms including ServiceNow, GitHub, and BeyondTrust.
- Implement self-service cloud provisioning and orchestration using ServiceNow, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Terraform Cloud.
- Maintain logging, monitoring, observability, configuration-as-code, patching, and development-team onboarding across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Execute proof-of-concept modernization initiatives involving legacy infrastructure, cloud technologies, and enterprise AI infrastructure.
- Manage the governance, maintenance, lifecycle, and updates of cloud and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Implement IAM roles, security groups, CIS hardening, compliance controls, and automated security-policy enforcement.
- Provide senior technical oversight, redundancy, mentoring, and Communities of Practice participation for DevOps engineers.
- Collaborate with development, security, networking teams, external providers, and service teams on cloud initiatives, outage resolution, and service requests.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.
- Three years of related experience administering cloud environments or equivalent experience.
- Expertise administering and configuring hybrid multi-cloud enterprise environments.
- Advanced Terraform experience, including Terraform Cloud and GitHub integration, plus desirable AWS CloudFormation experience.
- Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience developing REST API scripts or applications and integrating cloud platforms with ServiceNow, CMDBs, databases, and internal automation systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, VPN tunnels, routing tables, direct connect tunnels, network security groups, cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and CIS compliance hardening.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ITSM integrations, and using Ansible for configuration as code.
- Working knowledge of AI concepts and prompt engineering for cloud and automation workflows.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver maintainable solutions; U.S. citizenship is required for federal contract access to sensitive government data.
Benefits
- Sedentary work environment with reasonable accommodation available as stated; no adverse environmental conditions are expected.
- The role supports collaboration with development, security, networking, and external service-provider teams in a healthcare and academic research organization.
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About University of Utah Health
University of Utah Health is the nonprofit academic health system of the University of Utah, based in Salt Lake City and founded in 1965. It operates five hospitals (including a Level 1 trauma center), eleven community health centers, specialty institutes, and a regional health plan, providing care across Utah and neighboring states while advancing research and medical education. Revenue comes from clinical services, insurance premiums, and sponsored academic programs.