Senior Cloud Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW

In this exciting and highly visible role, you will have the opportunity to deliver real value to NBME® and help us meet our mission. As a key member of the Cloud Services team, the Senior Cloud Engineer will be charged with designing, building, and implementing Infrastructure as Code on the AWS platform. In collaboration with the Cloud Services team the Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the designing and implementing of the automation strategy, service processes and design of cloud support processes for infrastructure services as well as supporting cloud based automated infrastructure.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the health care community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come. We also continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, workplace culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community, and broader medical education.

POSITION DUTIES

• The infrastructure developer writes the code to automate the creation or manipulation of the environment that powers software that the application developer creates. The goal is to deploy software to infrastructure that customers can use
• Independently create robust, scalable, and high-quality automation solutions for infrastructure defined software.
• Create and manage roles, configuration policies, permission sets and system/software automation procedures for cloud wide services.
• Develop clear, concise installation and configuration procedures, runbooks, and contribute to the maintenance of operational standards
• Develop and document Cloud Services operational processes for new account requests, creating, additional logging, service provisioning
• Can perform deep dive analysis to understand the operational expenses and their drivers across all AWS accounts and services and make recommendations to lower costs when possible.
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level technical leadership, participate in SWATs as needed
• Design and manage processes to review daily statistics, alert response, logs and tuning for both performance and security.
• Knowing and implementing Cloud best practices, remain current with AWS technology changes, assess, and implement new features as required. Track for services for decommissioning roadmaps.
• Create automated approaches and scripts for system administration tasks where possible and appropriate
• Build and innovate tools and automation to replace manual operational processes, such as configuration and deployment, work with engineering teams on infrastructure product development.
• Root cause analysis and resolution of issues related to application configuration, deployment, and performance Design automated systems management solutions with self-repair as the goal
• Implementation of system and service telemetry to enable improvements in reliability and availability, Development of deep insight into application and service performance
• Provide build and deployment automation support (CI/CD)
• Ensuring system security through understanding and execution of industry best practices
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact

REQUIREMENTS

Skills and Abilities

• Full understanding of the AWS cloud ecosystem that NBME applications will utilize including our multi-cloud approach to Cloud strategy
• Process orientation - ability to address systemic challenges by creating, documenting, and implementing processes
• CICD / Deployment process understanding
• Redshift or Dynamo experience?
• IAM Skills
• Scripting language, python, type script
• General Knowledge of Networking and API knowledge to be able to troubleshoot VPC, API Gateway, DNS and Application Firewall issues.
• Troubleshooting analytical thinking systems wide holistic thinking problem solving
• Experience with JIRA and working in a agile methodology
• Service Excellence focus

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years' applicable experience as a cloud engineer.
• At least 5 years' experience in IT Infrastructure (networks, security, operating systems platforms, web systems and/or database management)
• Experienced in AWS S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CDK/ CFT, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, SNS, SQS,
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Account and organization provisioning, VPC configuration
• IaC Software Development
• AWS Pipeline technologies Code Commit, Code Deploy, Code Artifact
• Experience in Azure Serverless functions is a plus
• Thorough understanding of API technologies and Microservices architecture
• ITIL Service Management experience

Education

A Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Systems, Computer Science, or related field

About NBME:

NBME offers a versatile selection of high-quality assessments and educational services for students, professionals, educators, regulators and institutions dedicated to the evolving needs of medical education and health care. To ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality, stay relevant and align to the current curriculum in medical schools and training programs, we rely on a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who help develop our exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

We are committed to meeting the needs of educators and learners globally with assessment products and expert services such as NBME® Subject Examinations, Customized Assessment Services, Self-Assessments, the International Foundations of Medicine® Program and Item Writing Workshops. Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards, NBME develops and manages the United States Medical Licensing Examination®, which measures the ability to apply knowledge and skills that form the basis of safe and effective patient care. Our Competency-based Assessment unit is focused on new methods as well as the optimization of assessment in the workplace and education.

As a result of leadership in ongoing research, innovative measurement practices and the exploration of forward-thinking assessment modalities and improvements, NBME advances assessment science. Our grant and funding opportunities further support this dedication to medical education and assessment science. We help develop the next generation of assessment professionals through our Summer Psychometric Internship Program. Through the Stemmler Fund, Strategic Educators Enhancement Fund and Latin America Grants Program, researchers and educators can continue to improve the assessment of health care professionals around the world.

NBME views diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as foundational and enduring to our strategy and vision. We continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape. Our commitment manifests in our hiring and staff development, recruitment for committees, grants programs, design and review of our assessments, and involvement in our local and national communities.

Learn more about NBME at NBME.org.

The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

COVID-19 Considerations:

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be a condition of employment, subject to potential reasonable accommodations for legitimate medical or religious reasons which prevent such vaccination. Applicants who have received a conditional offer of employment will be requested to provide information about their COVID-19 vaccination status.

NBME is an equal opportunity employer as defined by the EEOC.