Platform Infrastructure Engineer IV or V, DOE
Hybrid (Office 3 days/wk – Onsite-Flex) within Portland, OR; Medford, OR; Renton, WA; Burlington, WA; Vancouver, WA; Spokane, WA; Lewiston, ID; Boise, ID; Salt Lake City, UT.
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Who We Are Looking For:
Every day, Cambia’s dedicated Platform Infrastructure Engineers are living our mission to make health care easier and lives better by building the platforms that power our products. As a senior platform leader and modernization catalyst on the Platform Engineering / Infrastructure Services team, you will lead the implementation of complex, business-critical infrastructure and automation in a high-scale, high-uptime, high-security environment. You’ll combine rigorous engineering discipline with modern platform expertise in cloud, networking, automation, and reliability engineering—tackling complex technical challenges, influencing leadership decisions, and mentoring engineers to elevate team capabilities. You will help establish enterprise best practices and reference architectures for secure, scalable cloud foundations, enablement tooling, and hybrid integrations, and champion responsible automation (including AI-accelerated workflows) that improves how we build, operate, and scale at Cambia.
Do you thrive as part of a collaborative, caring team? Then this role may be the perfect fit.
What You Bring to Cambia:
Qualifications:
Platform Infrastructure Engineer IV would have a bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field and at least 8 years of experience developing tools in support of production environments or equivalent combination of education and experience. List any required licenses or certifications here.
Certifications
Recommended (not required) technical certifications for one or more of the following:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - (Associate / Professional)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - (Associate / Professional)
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - (Associate / Professional)
AWS Certified Developer - (Associate / Professional)
Platform Infrastructure Engineer V would have a bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field and 10 - 12 years of experience developing tools in support of production environments or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Recommended (not required) certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified Developer (Associate/Professional).
Skills and Attributes:
Deep expertise designing and operating cloud platforms at scale (AWS and/or Azure), with strong reliability, security, and availability fundamentals.
Modern infrastructure engineering skills: Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (preferred: Terraform and/or Ansible) with disciplined change control and automation.
Strong delivery practices: Git-based workflows (preferred: GitHub or GitLab), comfort with frequent incremental changes, testing, and repeatable deployments.
Proven experience building and evolving CI/CD and platform enablement tooling (preferred: CircleCI)
Operational excellence: observability strategy (metrics/logs/traces), incident leadership, root-cause analysis, and driving systemic fixes that reduce toil.
Security-by-design mindset: secure baselines, identity and access patterns, secrets management, and alignment with compliance requirements.
Modernization catalyst: defines platform standards, publishes reference architectures, and champions adoption across teams to improve developer experience and production outcomes.
Influence and communication: consults with engineering and business partners, translates needs into pragmatic platform roadmaps, and drives alignment across teams.
Player/coach leadership: mentors engineers, raises the bar on engineering practices, and leads through action on complex, highly visible initiatives.
Cost and efficiency orientation: experience driving operational efficiencies and cost optimization (FinOps awareness), including vendor engagement where applicable.
Responsible automation mindset evaluates and applies emerging capabilities (including AI-accelerated workflows where appropriate) to improve delivery speed, reliability, and quality.
What You Will Do at Cambia:
Serve as a player/coach who balances hands-on delivery with team development—building proof-of-concepts and production-grade platform solutions while coaching engineers on best practices and modern infrastructure patterns.
Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable cloud foundations and shared services (networking, identity, compute, storage, and runtime enablement) that accelerate product delivery.
Establish and evolve enterprise best practices, golden paths, and reference architectures for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, environment provisioning, and policy-as-code.
Influence platform strategy and roadmap: partner with engineering and business leaders to shape priorities, estimate and plan work, and deliver measurable improvements in uptime, performance, and cost efficiency.
Drive modernization of platform operations through observability standards, resilient design, and automation that reduces toil and improves incident response outcomes.
Lead through action in requirements analysis, systems design, secure configuration, code quality, test automation, and documentation for platform components and tooling.
Champion operational efficiencies and cost optimization (FinOps practices where applicable), including right-sizing, capacity planning, and vendor/technology evaluations.
Engage vendors and internal partners as needed (security reviews, support engagements, roadmap input) to ensure platform technologies meet reliability, security, and compliance needs.
Continuously review industry trends and emerging technologies; responsibly incorporate improvements (including AI-accelerated workflows where appropriate) to modernize how we build and operate the platform.
The expected hiring range for a Platform Infrastructure Engineer IV is
$136,000 - $184,000 and the Platform Infrastructure Engineer V is $179,400 - $ 242,700 depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure/certifications; and performance history. Bonus target (if applicable): 15%. The full salary range for the
The full salary range for the Platform Infrastructure Engineer IV is $128,000 - $208,000 and the Platform Infrastructure Engineer V is $168,000 - $275,000. #LI-hybrid
About Cambia
Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person-focused health care. Whether we're helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.
Why Join the Cambia Team?
At Cambia, you can:
- Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care.
- Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.
- Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed.
- Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs.
- Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups.
We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck – and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.
In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include:
- Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
- Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
- Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays.
- Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
- Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
- Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
- Commute and parking benefits.
Learn more about our benefits.
We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco-free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. A background check is required.
If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please email [email protected]. Information about how Cambia Health Solutions collects, uses, and discloses information is available in our Privacy Policy.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years experience developing tools for production environments (Platform IV) or 10-12 years for Platform V
- Deep expertise designing and operating cloud platforms at scale (AWS and/or Azure)
- Infrastructure as Code and configuration management practices
- Terraform and/or Ansible experience
- Experience with Git-based workflows
- Experience using GitHub or GitLab
- Proven experience building and evolving CI/CD and platform enablement tooling
- Experience with CircleCI
- Observability strategy (metrics/logs/traces), incident leadership, and root-cause analysis
- Security-by-design mindset, identity and access patterns, and secrets management
- Player/coach leadership: mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices
- Experience driving operational efficiencies and cost optimization (FinOps awareness)
- Vendor engagement experience including security reviews and support engagements
- Ability to work hybrid (onsite-flex) with required wired internet for remote work and office presence as listed
What We Do
Cambia Health Solutions is a family of companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon, working to create a person-focused and economically sustainable healthcare system. Discover how Cambia’s dedication to cutting-edge innovation and positive transformation is helping change the healthcare industry. Through our health plans, innovative technology and strategic investments, we are delivering consumer-centric solutions that: • help people achieve better health and well-being • make health care more available, affordable and accessible • are easily understood by everyone We put people at the heart of everything we do. Our company reaches more than 70 million Americans nationwide, including more than two million people in the Pacific Northwest who are enrolled in our regional health plans.
