Senior Cloud Engineer IS - *Remote*

This position is remote and can sit in the footprint of Providence in the states of AK, CA, MT, OR, TX and WA.

A Senior Cloud Engineer will collaborate with various teams within the IS organization to bolster the infrastructure. Their expertise lies inAzure Cloud Infrastructure and VMware, and they are tasked with overseeing the infrastructure and services to guarantee high availability, reliability, and scalability. They will be skilled in Azure / on-prem solutions as well as Agile DevOps (ADO) operations.

This position involves key responsibilities including the operational support and execution of cloud strategies, resource efficiency, and maintaining system uptime service level agreements. A solid understanding of Windows Servers, vSphere, and Azure cloud services is required, along with a comprehensive knowledge of Azure policies, compliance measures, resource optimization, and remediation processes.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Enterprise Information Services and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Essential Functions:

• Designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure and services to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability.

• Expert Azure administration and engineering for IaaS and PaaS, including monitoring, alerting and optimization.

• Developing and enforcing cloud security policies and procedures to protect data and applications from unauthorized access and potential security threats.

• Experience in automation, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Automation, Ansible (AWX), GitHub and runbooks.

• Manage automation tooling to support organizational needs for runbooks, pipeline, and desired state.

• Providing expert-level operational support to Servers located on-premises and Azure cloud environments.

• Deep understanding of Windows Server and some working Linux knowledge

• Communicate effectively across all organizational pillars, driving technical conversations to outcomes.

• Conducts advanced troubleshooting and devises solutions for intricate service issues to reinstate service with minimal disruption to the caregiver and business operations. Utilizes insights from previous experiences to drive innovation.

• Ensures that production solutions are reliable, resilient, secure, and effective and continuously monitored.

• Participate on weekly on-call rotation schedule

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a Healthcare environment

• Previous experience with any of the following in an Azure / On-prem environment: Policies, Governance, Automation, monitoring, architecture & design, engineering, etc.

• Experience with IT service management tools such as ServiceNow and Azure DevOps (ADO)

• Azure certification

• VMware certification

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

About the Team

Providence Shared Services is a service line within Providence that provides a variety of functional and system support services for our family of organizations across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. We are focused on supporting our Mission by delivering a robust foundation of services and sharing of specialized expertise.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.