HealthPartners

HealthPartners is currently hiring for a Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer - Observability Team. This pivotal role is essential for maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of our Observability product team. As the team expands its Splunk capabilities to enhance organizational insights and performance, the engineer will be a key contributor to its growth. The Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer is driven by a passion for observability, automation, high availability, continuous improvement, and crafting high-quality code.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field
• 6+ years of experience in software development
• 4+ years of operations experience
• Exceptional understanding of software principles and ability to code.
• Exceptional understanding of automation and how to apply it to remove barriers and increase reliability.
• Strong understanding and experience with architecting, designing, and automating within a public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Understanding of Cloud principles.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies like OpenShift, Kubernetes, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Kafka, and others are highly valued.
• Understanding of use and operation of tools like Bit Bucket, GitLab, Jenkins, Confluence.
• Experience with Chef, Ansible, Jenkins.
• Understanding of infrastructure like storage, networking, operating systems, VMs.
• Understanding of architectures such as Micro services, SOA, J2EE, Enterprise Service Bus.
• Demonstrated ability to learn recent technologies.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex ideas in written and verbal forms.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile environment.

Hours/Location:

• M-F; Days
• Participation in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities:

• Automates relentlessly, following continuous integration/continuous delivery practices.
• Participates in the development and communication of DevOps principles and activities.
• Installs, automates, and operates tools that enable our developers and systems.
• Deploys, scales, and runs distributed software at scale, understanding service dependencies.
• Monitors application performance and exposes metrics to everyone.
• Designs and conducts platform/application tests, including functionality, availability, load/stress, and performance.
• Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Participates within high availability and disaster recovery testing.
• Creates documentation required for smooth operation.
• Participates in a team environment which thrives on transparency and trust.
• Guides and mentors less experienced staff.
• Participates in an on-call rotation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

At HealthPartners we believe in the power of good – good deeds and good people working together. As part of our team, you’ll find an inclusive environment that encourages new ways of thinking, celebrates differences, and recognizes hard work.

We’re a nonprofit, integrated health care organization, providing health insurance in six states and high-quality care at more than 90 locations, including hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together research and education through HealthPartners Institute, training medical professionals across the region and conducting innovative research that improve lives around the world.

At HealthPartners, everyone is welcome, included and valued. We’re working together to increase diversity and inclusion in our workplace, advance health equity in care and coverage, and partner with the community as advocates for change.

Benefits Designed to Support Your Total Health

As a HealthPartners colleague, we’re committed to nurturing your diverse talents, valuing your dedication, and supporting your work-life balance. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to support every aspect of your life, including health, time off, retirement planning, and continuous learning opportunities. Our goal is to help you thrive physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially, so you can continue delivering exceptional care.

Join us in our mission to improve the health and well-being of our patients, members, and communities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.