Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Department: Platform Engineering & Operations (PEO)Function / Team Platform Architecture
Reports To: Director, Platform Architecture
Location / Work Arrangement: Remote / Work at Home
Employment Type: Full-time
Date / Version: 2026-09 / v1 (standard template)
Role Overview
As a Platform Architect in Evolent's Platform Engineering & Operations (PEO) organization, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud and infrastructure platforms that Evolent's applications run on. This role involves strategic thinking to solve high impactful organizational issues with expertise in major cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure.
Why This Role Matters
Evolent is transforming how it builds and operates infrastructure under a refreshed Platform Engineering & Operations operating model, grounded in four principles: Architecture First, Automation by Default, Reliability is a Shared Responsibility and Golden Paths Over Custom Solutions. You will turn approved designs into provisioned, automated, and documented platforms, and you will do it transparently, through formal handoffs, Office Hours reviews, and documentation your peers can actually rely on.
Agentic AI: Platform Engineering is moving toward agentic AI as a standard part of how the organization works. As agentic AI transforms the way we work, we expect our engineers to be at the forefront of that change, designing and building intelligent solutions rather than simply consuming them. This builder mentality is a core attribute we assess from the first conversation.
What You'll Be Doing
· Provision and change infrastructure exclusively as code, so that every environment is reproducible, reviewable, and free of manual drift.
· Reverse engineer the applications and infrastructure you inherit: trace dependencies, integrations, and data flows end to end until you can explain how a system actually works.
· Design and build agentic AI solutions for platform, delivery, and operations work: identify the toil worth automating, then build, evaluate, and harden the agent that removes it.
· Build security and compliance into the delivery path: least-privilege access, secrets handling, policy-as-code guardrails, and audit evidence produced by design rather than assembled under deadline.
Scope note: This role works inside one PEO function and partners across the others. Platform Architecture defines and approves standards, DevOps provisions and delivers, Site Reliability Engineering operates production, Platform Enablement & Automation builds golden paths and guardrails, Database Administration owns data platforms, and Cloud Network Services owns the foundational cloud fabric and network. Hiring manager: add any boundary specific to your team here.
What You'll Need to Be Successful
· Demonstrates humility, openness to feedback, and a team-first mindset.
· Comfortable with a high level of transparency, surfacing risks and mistakes early.
· Ability to create high-quality technical diagrams and documentation.
· Deep knowledge of agentic AI concepts: agents and tool use, orchestration, context and retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and the limits of each. This is one of the most important requirements for the role, because every person in Platform Engineering & Operations is expected to become a builder of agentic AI solutions rather than only a user of them.
· Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
· Demonstrated ability to reverse engineer application architecture: take an unfamiliar application and the infrastructure under it, trace its components, dependencies, and data flows.
· Working fluency in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code. Terraform and Ansible are Evolent's standard tooling.
Domain Expertise — Platform Architecture
· Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient workloads on the Azure platform
· Maintain overall cloud organization and standards such as the Azure Landing Zone architecture, the Azure Well Architected Framework, and Enterprise Policy Governance.
· Implement cloud security measures and controls set by Senior and Principal team members from regulatory compliance frameworks such as HITRUST & CIS.
· Proficiency with tools such as Azure Portal/CLI, Azure Advisor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Graph, and VS Code.
· Analyze existing cloud architectures and recommend optimizations for cost efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
Nice to Have (Preferred)
· Experience applying agentic AI concepts, whether through professional experience, personal projects, academic work, or other relevant initiatives: what it does, the choices you made, what failed, and what you would change.
· Proficiency in a scripting or programming language used for automation and tooling, such as Python, Go, PowerShell, C#, or Bash.
· Experience in a regulated environment, for example healthcare and HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar.
Certifications (Preferred)· Relevant Azure certifications preferred, for example AZ-104 or AZ-305, AI-500 or AB-100
· ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity
Academic Qualification· Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
Mandatory Requirements:
Employees must have a high-speed broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps and the ability to set up a wired connection to their home network to ensure effective remote work. These requirements may be updated as needed by the business.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education, training, and experience
- Deep knowledge of agentic AI concepts, including tool use, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and guardrails
- Ability to reverse engineer application architecture, infrastructure, dependencies, integrations, and data flows
- Working fluency in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Ability to design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient workloads on Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of Azure Landing Zone architecture, Azure Well-Architected Framework, and enterprise policy governance
- Proficiency with Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Azure Advisor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Graph, and Visual Studio Code
- Ability to create high-quality technical diagrams and documentation
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Humility, openness to feedback, team-first mindset, and transparency about risks and mistakes
- High-speed broadband internet connection of at least 50 Mbps and ability to establish a wired home-network connection
- Experience applying agentic AI concepts through professional, academic, or personal projects
- Proficiency in Python, Go, PowerShell, C#, or Bash
- Experience in a regulated environment such as healthcare, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar
- Relevant Azure certification such as AZ-104, AZ-305, AI-500, or AB-100
- ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity certification
Evolent Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evolent Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Evolent Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Salaried roles commonly include unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays, volunteer time off, and a sabbatical option after several years. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a meaningful lifestyle strength for many roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with a publicly highlighted emphasis on mental-health resources, including a 2026 Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America. This recognition signals above-baseline support for employee health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first approach for most positions and flexible work arrangements are consistently emphasized. Feedback suggests these elements add notable non-cash value to the overall package.
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What We Do
Evolent Health delivers proven clinical and administrative solutions that improve whole person health while making health care simpler and more affordable. Our three solutions—Evolent Care Partners, New Century Health and Evolent Health Services—encompass total cost of care management, specialty care management and administrative simplification. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers, is the first company to receive the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. OUR PEOPLE We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 100% score on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, making us one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees. We were also named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 and 2021 by Parity.org. OUR CULTURE Our accessible leadership team cultivates an open-door environment. We don’t like approval chains; we love ideas and people with the courage and conviction to bring novel solutions forward. We win as a team and always ask how we can do better. We respect and encourage commitments outside of work. OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS We recognize and reward our most valuable asset—our team—with competitive pay and annual performance-based bonuses. Evolent also offers comprehensive health benefits, a company-matched 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Every salaried Evolent employee receives unlimited Personal Time Off and is eligible for a month-long sabbatical after working five years with Evolent. This account is monitored closely by our company. Please message us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
