Director, Cloud Engineering Hands On Technical Leader

At Zelis we Get Stuff Done. So lets get to it!

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers providers and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 725 payers including the top five national health plans regional health plans TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify optimize and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts driving real measurable results for clients.

At Zelis AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo accelerate innovation and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility embrace change and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions exceptional experiences and the future of our industry for our clients customers and our culture.

A Little About You

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences community involvement and the valuable lessons youve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements the knowledge youve gained and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

Lead Our Move to the Cloud
Were continuing a significant cloud transformation and were looking for a leader to help drive it.

As Director of Cloud Engineering youll own our Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) across Azure and AWS lead our cloud engineering team oversee our managed service provider (MSP) partnership and set the technical direction for how we build secure and operate in the cloud.

The role balances strategic and people leadership with active involvement in architecture technical decision-making and complex escalations. Youll inherit a capable team an active migration agenda and an opportunity to shape the next stage of our cloud maturity.

Our environment spans traditional and cloud-native technologies including virtual machines containers Kubernetes serverless services and software-defined networking. Infrastructure as Code is central to our modernization strategy with a focus on automation scalability resiliency security and operational efficiency.

We also operate in a regulated environment making security compliance and resilience fundamental to how we design and operate our platforms.

What Youll Do

Cloud Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Own and evolve the CCoE across Azure and AWS including cloud strategy architecture standards landing zones and guardrails.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for cloud platforms migrations and major infrastructure initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership during complex engineering challenges and production escalations working with internal teams and the MSP to drive resolution.
• Evaluate new cloud capabilities and guide adoption based on business needs technical fit security and risk.

Governance Security & Resilience

• Establish cloud governance standards across identity networking resource management security and policy enforcement.
• Partner with security compliance and risk teams to translate HIPAA HITRUST and other requirements into practical cloud controls.
• Drive policy-as-code and automated security and compliance controls across Azure and AWS.
• Establish resilient architecture backup and disaster recovery practices aligned with business RTO and RPO requirements.
• Ensure DR capabilities are documented tested and continuously improved.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Establish Infrastructure as Code as the standard for cloud provisioning with Terraform as the primary platform.
• Drive reusable modules CI/CD GitOps and automated delivery practices.
• Promote self-service platform capabilities that improve consistency accelerate delivery and reduce manual effort.
• Improve observability reliability performance and cloud cost efficiency.

Team & MSP Leadership

• Lead mentor and develop the cloud engineering team setting clear priorities accountability and technical expectations.
• Build technical depth across Azure and AWS and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical and operational oversight of the MSP holding the partner accountable for service levels engineering quality responsiveness and issue resolution.
• Ensure critical cloud knowledge and technical ownership remain within the organization.

Business Partnership

• Partner with application security infrastructure architecture and business teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.
• Communicate cloud strategy risks priorities and progress to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Manage cloud engineering priorities and investments partnering with Finance and FinOps on forecasting and cost optimization.

What You Bring

Required

• 10 years of experience in infrastructure cloud or platform engineering including significant technical or engineering leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading and developing cloud engineering teams.
• Strong technical depth with the ability to review architectures challenge designs troubleshoot complex issues and guide engineers and partners.
• Deep production experience with Azure or AWS; experience across both is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of cloud compute containers networking identity security data platforms resiliency and observability.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or CDK required.
• Experience with CI/CD automation and modern infrastructure delivery practices.
• Experience leading or providing technical direction for large-scale cloud migrations.
• Experience with cloud governance security high availability backup and disaster recovery.
• Experience working in regulated environments and translating requirements such as HIPAA into cloud controls.
• Experience managing MSPs consulting partners or other external technology providers.
• Strong communication skills across engineering business vendor and executive audiences.

Preferred

• Production experience across both Azure and AWS.
• Experience building or leading a CCoE or platform engineering function.
• Experience with Kubernetes container platforms policy-as-code and observability.
• Experience supporting HITRUST assessments or certification.
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization experience.
• Relevant Azure AWS Terraform CISSP or CCSP certifications.

What Success Looks Like

• Clear well-adopted cloud architecture governance standards landing zones and reusable patterns.
• Secure and resilient cloud platforms with automated controls and tested disaster recovery capabilities.
• Consistent infrastructure delivery through IaC automation and standardized pipelines.
• A strong cloud engineering team with clear ownership and growing technical depth.
• An effective and accountable MSP partnership with critical knowledge retained internally.
• Predictable cloud migrations and measurable improvements in reliability security delivery speed and cost efficiency.

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

Zelis is headquartered in the U.S. with multiple locations across the country and in Hyderabad India. Check out our locations to learn more about our offices. All employee work locations are based on the needs of the position and are determined by the Leadership -office work and activities vary based on work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

While location expectations vary by role candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed. Our hybrid approach is flexible and in-office presence is guided by team and business needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.

Base Salary Range

$180000.00 - $247500.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors including experience education qualifications as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package which may also include discretionary bonus plans commissions or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well which demonstrates our commitment to our employees health well-being and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match flexible paid time off holidays parental leaves life and disability insurance and health benefits including medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process please email .

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities duties and skills from time to time.

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