Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Elevance Health

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Elevance Health responsible for cloud infrastructure and multi-technology platform development. Collaborating across teams to ensure secure and efficient cloud environments.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,600 - $191,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDNSFirewallsGoJenkinsKubernetesPackerPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines.
Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards.
Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking.
Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations.
Automates management of cloud networks (VPC/VNet), Transit Gateways, DNS, Onpremise Connections, Load balancers, Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications.
Automates management of cloud security controls - NSGs, IAM roles, policies, etc. to comply with Elevance Health standards.
Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components.
Leads the ITIL processes - incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross-functional teams.
Develops and owns list of final enhancements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
Minimum of 5 years related experience
5 years of experience in cloud engineering, networking or operations
5 years with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, APIGateways, Storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc.
5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred
5 years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible and Packer)
5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages
3 years of experience with Jenkins, GitLab
1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers/ Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
Short and long term disability benefits
Wellness programs and financial education resources

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesAnsiblePackerPythoncloud networkingcloud security controlsdisaster recoverycloud design patternsContainers

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationleadershiprequirements gatheringtask allocationoperational performance trackingtechnical advicerelationship managementchange managementincident management

Certifications

BA/BS degree in Information TechnologyBA/BS degree in Computer Science