Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

Role Description

The Cloud Enablement & Engineering Team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Principal AI Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. In this fully remote role, you will develop target-state architectures, define enterprise platform strategies, and guide product and engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and business-aligned cloud and AI solutions.

• Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams.
• Collaborate with various teams across the organization including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools.
• Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.
• Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.
• Work with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud-specific monitoring tools.
• Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care, and operation transition.
• Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting, and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience is required.
• 8 years of Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with infrastructure cloud engineering and establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.
• Experience leading large-scale Azure/AWS/GCP migrations and Azure Cloud project delivery.
• Experience in Automation and Development best practices related to Cloud application modernization.
• Experience with enterprise network design including segmentation models, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with firewalls, network authentication controls, and Linux/Windows operating systems.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of Azure (preferred) and/or AWS experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools.
• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images and their deployment via Kubernetes-based services.
• Knowledge of Terraform/Ansible, GIT-based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Azure DevOps/Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline.
• Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences.

Benefits

• Fully remote role with travel to Chattanooga, TN headquarters required for final interviews.
• 1 opening available.