DevOps/Cloud Engineer

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Join one of Jacksonville’s fastest growing companies and best places to work. Forcura, a dynamic high-growth SaaS technology company focused on driving efficiency and interoperability for healthcare organizations, is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Engineer to join our expanding team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, experience in a fast-paced, high growth environment, be passionate about innovation, efficiency and scalability, and have demonstrated experience providing solutions to complex problems in a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This position is focused on teamwork, requiring a proactive candidate who enjoys working within a team and is intrinsically motivated and eager to constantly improve.

Job Responsibilities

This position is responsible for the development and processing integrity of Forcura’s DevOps and cloud environments. . The DevOps/Cloud Engineer will work closely with both the business stakeholders, product owners and cross-functional IT teams and requires excellent DevOps and cloud infrastructure implementation, troubleshooting and environment management skills.

Building out/ Architecting AWS Environments

Network Configuration – this person will work hand in hand with the network team to ensure connectivity between their existing infrastructure and the new systems

Strong knowledge of AWS vendor management- proven ability to budget/allocate the cost of each department

Requirements

Must have experience and extensive knowledge in the following areas:

Extensive experience in implementing systems engineering lifecycle processes in an Agile engineering environment as well as the associated configuration management activities

Proficient with CI/CD principles – Jenkins, GitHub, AWS Elastic Beanstalk with extensive hands-on experience with modern source control repositories (e. g. Git) and DevOps toolsets (Jenkins Ansible etc)

Knowledge of cloud-native and microservice architectures and an understanding of design principles for scalability, performance, and reliability

Demonstrated experience with Jenkins scripts to automate the build, test, package deployment of function(s) configuration

Experience with container services – Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Elastic Container Service.

Experience automating and scripting with at least 2 of the following: Python, Powershell, Perl, Bash.

Experience with planning, building and supporting of Elastic Search Clusters

Strong cloud formation experience – e.g., ability to set up and configure AWS and/or Azure servers and VM’s

Knowledge in core AWS services like EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, AWS Lambda , CLI etc. and with AWS network services

Operational AWS experience, including provisioning, managing, and monitoring instances

Experience automating systems creation, administrative tasks, notifications

Proficient working within public cloud services, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) building, supporting and maintaining complex environments.

Proficient with monitoring and recovery of key services and systems.

Understanding of networking – subnetting, firewalls, ACLs, security groups.

Understanding of databases and their infrastructure requirements – MS SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS DocumentDB, ELK Stack.

Understanding of Web technologies and protocols – AWS App Load Balancers, IIS, Apache, PKI/Certificates.

Understanding of logging and monitoring services – CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Dynatrace.

Proficient with Patch Management Tools

Knowledge of systems security processes and tools: HIPAA security requirements, encryption, disaster recovery, security controls, processes and policies in relation to support of DevOps and cloud environments a plus

Experience in executing load and performance testing strategies and perform advanced performance tuning

Creating environments for MS SQL Server Enterprise Edition and analytics platforms

Must be willing to work independently and/or as part of a team in an energetic, team-oriented environment managing systems of varying size and complexity with a fast turn-around time

Strong communications skills – must be a team player in a best-idea-wins culture

Interest in providing technical review and mentorship to team members

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or another similar STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline or equivalent work experience in infrastructure engineering preferred.

Experience

3+ years of experience working as a DevOps engineer in a commercial SaaS product business

3+ years of experience as cloud engineer, building cloud platform architecture solutions on public and/or private cloud platforms

3+ years of hands-on infrastructure services technical experience demonstrating progression from on premise, hosting to cloud formation skills

About Forcura

Forcura, a leading healthcare technology company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, facilitates continuity of care via technology, analytics and a deep commitment to enabling better patient care. The Forcura suite of tools is powered by Forcura Connect, a proprietary framework for standardizing interoperability and integration among post-acute health care organizations, physicians, electronic health records (EHRs) and other supporting technology vendors. Through our technology and analytics solutions, we are a step closer every day to elevating the opportunities of post-acute care. The company has received awards for Fastest Growing Company for the fifth consecutive year, Best UI/UX Design in SaaS, and Best Places to Work by Inc. Magazine. For more information visit www.forcura.com.