[Hiring] Cloud Engineer IV @Availity

Role Description

As an Availity Cloud Engineer IV, you will provide senior-level ownership for the operation, automation, reliability, and continuous improvement of Availity’s AWS cloud platforms. This role is hands-on and production focused, supporting Cloud responsibilities across:

• Infrastructure provisioning
• Kubernetes/EKS operations
• EC2 and AMI lifecycle
• Observability
• Incident response
• Patching support
• Compliance evidence
• Cost optimization
• Operational documentation

You will partner with Cloud Architects, Security, Product, and other business partners to implement approved designs, strengthen runbooks and standards, mentor engineers, and drive stable, secure, and scalable cloud operations.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5-7 years of progressive experience with cloud implementations, production cloud operations, and Infrastructure as Code.
• 4+ years of practical public cloud experience, with AWS strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience administering, troubleshooting, and supporting AWS EKS/Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Experience designing, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Scripting experience with Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages used for operational automation.
• Experience with common AWS services and cloud operations patterns, including IAM, VPC/networking concepts, EC2, load balancing, storage, backup/snapshot, and logging/monitoring services.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or similar.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, branching, pull requests, code review, and version control best practices.
• Experience supporting Windows and Linux operating systems in cloud-hosted environments.
• Working knowledge of AMI image creation and lifecycle processes.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation, runbooks, implementation notes, and operational standards.
• Strong technical, process, and problem-solving proficiency with the ability to work independently on complex operational issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to partner with engineers, Cloud Architects, Security, Product, Business Management, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes certification, or similar certification (preferred).
• Experience working with Product and Business Management teams (preferred).
• Experience working in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving technology environment (preferred).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery practices and sprint-based work management (preferred).
• Experience supporting compliance, audit evidence requests, change management, risk remediation, or operational governance activities (preferred).

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus structure.
• Generous HSA company contribution.
• Healthcare, vision, and dental benefits.
• 401k match program available from day one.
• Unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays.
• Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO with the same holiday benefits.
• Reimbursement up to $250/year for gym memberships, racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Education reimbursement available.
• Paid Parental Leave for both birth and adoptive parents.
• Opportunities to engage in community service and volunteer activities.