Job Summary:
The Architect III - Cloud, DevOps, and SRE is responsible for partnering with many internal CareSource IT teams to design and implement critical outcomes in the Cloud, DevOps, and SRE domains intended to be leveraged by the Digital Solutions delivery teams. Additionally, expected to play a key role in defining and delivering strategies to help our Digital platform scale at a national level.
Essential Functions:
Partnerships
- Driving strong partnerships with our internal Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Site Reliability Engineering organizations aimed at enabling the Digital Solutions delivery teams.
- Demonstrate strong collaboration with Business & Product Leaders, IT Leaders, and individual teams within the IT organization.
Cloud Architecture & Strategy
- Partner with peers within all Information Technology groups to promote architecture principles, standards, methods, and strategic direction for the enterprise.
- Work closely with internal cloud experts to harden implementations of cloud services utilized by specific Digital projects.
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering/Platform team to build out cloud infrastructure templates for common service use cases leveraging Terraform.
- Design and implement infrastructure and related tooling/processes to support blue/green style deployments.
DevOps Practices & Strategies
- Work with internal DevOps team to coordinate on CareSource standards.
- Follow standards to deliver necessary enhancements to existing pipelines and process automations.
- Define and implement automated rollback strategies with Digital application owners.
- Create valuable integrations between Agile product tool and VCS system to facilitate automated release documentation.
Site Reliability Engineering
- Lead the alignment, strategy, and delivery of context-based Site Reliability Engineering to meet the individual needs of our Digital products.
- Lead efforts to continuously improve/enhance Digital Platform reliability, scalability, and performance & report valuable metrics to leadership.
- Collaborate with SRE teams to implement appropriate alerting, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in the areas of Application Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems/Automation Engineering, or Cloud Application Architecture experience required.
- Direct experience in designing/implementing technically diverse application and infrastructure architectures within large-scale enterprise environments is required, preferably in healthcare IT.
- Experience in many disciplines/areas of IT & Application Delivery including Cloud-based Application Design, Architecture, and Development, Event/Message Streaming Technologies, Monitoring & Observability Tooling/Practices, Relational & Non-Relational Databases, Frontend & Backend Development Practices/Patterns, Infrastructure Code, DevOps Practices, IT Service Management Principles, IT Controls Best Practices in a Regulated/Sensitive Environment, Test Automation workflows & tools.
Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills including excellent written and verbal communication skills; listening and critical thinking; presentation skills, facilitation skills.
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with stakeholders at all different levels.
- Ability to lead technical evaluations and conduct research & development in emerging technologies.
- Ability to contribute code to get new initiatives off the ground.
- Ability to jump in with a development team and contribute code when technical expertise is needed.
- Tech Stack Experience (not exhaustive): Terraform Enterprise, Github Actions (similar CI/CD platform), Azure Cloud, Dynatrace, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes
Licensure and Certification:
Architecture-level certifications from any major cloud providers, Azure Cloud certifications preferred.
Working Conditions:
General office environment; may be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time
Compensation Range:
$135,600.00 - $237,400.00CareSource takes into consideration a combination of a candidate’s education, training, and experience as well as the position’s scope and complexity, the discretion and latitude required for the role, and other external and internal data when establishing a salary level. In addition to base compensation, you may qualify for a bonus tied to company and individual performance. We are highly invested in every employee’s total well-being and offer a substantial and comprehensive total rewards package.
Compensation Type (hourly/salary):
SalaryOrganization Level Competencies
Fostering a Collaborative Workplace Culture
Cultivate Partnerships
Develop Self and Others
Drive Execution
Influence Others
Pursue Personal Excellence
Understand the Business
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
- Minimum 10 years experience in Application Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems/Automation Engineering, or Cloud Application Architecture
- Designing and implementing diverse application and infrastructure architectures within large-scale enterprise environments (healthcare experience preferred)
- Experience with cloud-based application design and cloud architecture principles
- Experience with infrastructure as code and Terraform Enterprise
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and pipeline/process automation
- Experience with Azure Cloud
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Splunk)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with event/message streaming technologies and relational/non-relational databases
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, IT service management principles, IT controls in regulated environments, and test automation workflows/tools
- Ability to contribute code and collaborate directly with development teams
- Strong interpersonal, communication, leadership, and stakeholder collaboration skills
- Architecture-level certification from a major cloud provider (Azure certifications preferred)
CareSource Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CareSource and has not been reviewed or approved by CareSource.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses are regularly available and serve as a meaningful part of total compensation. Annual performance-based awards are considered a strong component.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO starts around four weeks and increases with tenure, complemented by paid holidays and a floating day. Volunteer time expands the available leave options.
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Affordable Benefits — Health plan options are considered affordable, supported by wellness incentives that can reduce premiums. Coverage breadth includes medical, dental, vision, and cost‑lowering programs.
CareSource Insights
What We Do
Health Care with Heart. It is more than a tagline; it’s how we do business. CareSource has been providing life-changing health care to people and communities for nearly 30 years and we will continue to be a transformative force in the industry by placing people over profits. CareSource is and will always be members first. Even as we grow, we remember the reason we are here – to make a difference in our members’ lives by improving their health and well-being. Today, CareSource offers a lifetime of health coverage to nearly 2 million members through plan offerings including Marketplace, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. With our team of 4,000 employees located across the country, we continue to clear a path to better life for our members. Visit the "Life" section to see how we are living our mission in the states we serve. CareSource is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and here: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf Si usted o alguien a quien ayuda tienen preguntas sobre CareSource, tiene derecho a recibir esta información y ayuda en su propio idioma sin costo. Para hablar con un intérprete, Por favor, llame al número de Servicios para Afiliados que figura en su tarjeta de identificación. 如果您或者您在帮助的人对 CareSource 存有疑问，您有权 免费获得以您的语言提供的帮助和信息。 如果您需要与一 位翻译交谈，请拨打您的会员 ID 卡上的会员服务电话号码
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