AWS Cloud Architect

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Director of Architecture, we are seeking an experienced, highly motivated Cloud Architect to join our growing, dynamic healthcare organization. The Cloud Architect will be a strategic thought leader who’s responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based solutions at the BMC system-wide level that are performant, secure, compliant, and scalable. This role will focus on improving healthcare delivery by leveraging cutting-edge public and hybrid-cloud technologies, partnering with BMCHS Information Security to ensure data security / privacy, and optimizing platform performance, while adhering to healthcare regulations such as HIPAA and HITRUST.

Position: AWS Cloud Architect        

Department: Information Technology

Schedule: Full Time

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:

All duties listed below have a Health System-wide impact and  are done in close partnership with key IT leaders, with the Cloud Architect serving as the technical expert guiding and leading implementation efforts

• Cloud Architecture Design: Design and implement cloud infrastructure tailored for mission-critical healthcare applications, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

• Compliance and Security: Develop and maintain systems in accordance with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST) to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance.

• Collaboration with Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Cloud Operations, network engineering, infrastructure engineering, IT, and other business units to understand requirements and deliver effective cloud solutions.

• Cloud Service Management: Oversee and optimize the use of AWS cloud services to ensure cost efficiency and resource management.

• Data Management: Architect cloud solutions for large-scale healthcare data management, including Electronic Health Records (EHR), Patient Health Information (PHI), and medical data analytics.

• Disaster Recovery & Backup: Work closely with the Storage and Virtualization Team to design and implement robust disaster recovery and data backup plans that ensure business continuity and meet healthcare industry standards.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, identifying and resolving issues proactively to maintain operational efficiency.

• Cost Reporting: Monitor cloud service spend and work cross-functionally to identify and implement strategies for optimizing and scaling appropriately. 

• Innovation: Stay up to date with the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing and broader healthcare technology and apply innovative solutions to improve healthcare delivery.

(The above statements in this job description are intended to depict the general nature and level of work assigned to the employee(s) in this job. The above is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of accountable duties and responsibilities required).

JOB REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and at least 7 years of progressive, demonstrated experience in AWS (and/or) multi-cloud cloud architecture; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience with cloud-based data storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

• Experience with DevOps tools and automation (e.g., CloudFormation, AWS CDK, AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins).

• Experience assessing, testing, implementing modern platform visibility solutions (DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus / Grafana).

• Experience with healthcare IT systems such as EMR/HER (Epic).

• Experience with cloud-based data warehouses, data lakes, and data pipelines.

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• 3 years of experience focused on healthcare-related solutions in and AWS cloud environment is preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• Up to date certification in at least one relevant cloud platform (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, etc.).

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS PREFERRED:

• Certification in multiple cloud platforms

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES (KSAs):

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud infrastructures (AWS) using IaC (infrastructure as code).

• Demonstrated history of migrating enterprise-scale data center workloads into AWS utilizing native and 3rd party tooling. 

• Strong understanding and demonstrated history of architecting cloud-based systems utilizing the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Strong understanding of industry regulations such as HIPAA & HITRUST, and other relevant compliance frameworks such as NIST CSF.

• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, identity management, and encryption protocols.

• Familiarity with healthcare-specific software platforms and technologies (e.g., EHR systems like Epic, healthcare analytics tools).

• Knowledge of cloud-native machine learning and AI applications in a healthcare setting.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

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