Lead DevOps & Cloud System Engineer, Technology and Digital, FT, 09A-5:30P

Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 29,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 26 years, we've been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 63 high-performing honors.

What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients' shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels out commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because when it comes to caring for people, we're all in.

At Baptist Health, we’re committed to supporting our employees at every stage of their journey, both personally and professionally. Our approach is rooted in a “grow our own” philosophy, designed to help our team members build meaningful, long-term careers with us, supported by benefits that make a real difference, including:

• Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support
• Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits
• A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs
• Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement
• And so much more
  

Together, these benefits and others reflect our commitment to caring for our people, so they can build fulfilling careers with us while making a meaningful impact every day.

Description:

Systems Engineer supports a large-scale Distributed Infrastructure, providing technical leadership in problem solving, maintenance, and project build situations, formulating solutions for improvement, and working with peers to establish a strategic direction for the environment. This position will install, maintain, and configure systems infrastructure on both on premise and Cloud platforms.
Estimated salary range for this position is $110993.26 - $144291.24 / year depending on experience.

Qualifications:

Degrees:

• Bachelors.

Additional Qualifications:

• Masters preferred.
• 10+ yrs of exp in Comp Science,Comp Engineering,Electrical Engineering or comparable industry exp.
• Hands-on,proven expertise with developing tech solutions involving multiple apps to solve business/production needs.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills,particularly in working within teams/stakeholders.
• Expertise in Linux,MacOS, &/or Windows sys admin.
• Exp managing cloud based solutions using VMware,AWS,GCP, &/or Kubernetes.
• Exp with LDAP, DNS, SSO, MDM, SMTP, sys performance-monitoring tools,virtualization,HTTP, email routing & admin, interacting with REST APIs for app integration & automation, & familiarity with authentication standards.
• Knowl.
• of programming with Python & other scripting languages such as bash, Perl, etc.
• Knowl.
• of Git or other version ctrl sys.
• Strong ability to query & visualize data using tools like Grafana, Kibana, &/or ElasticSearch.
• Excellent troubleshooting & problem solving skills.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networks,troubleshooting & related tech.
• Strong, demonstrated skills in the following at a min: AWS,Chef,Docker,Terraform,F5, Couchbase, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, ElasticSearch, Rabbit MQ, Angular.
• js, Node.
• js, Spring/Java, Rundeck.
• Required knowledge & understanding of technical architecture, app sys design & integration in a large enterprise environment.

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate highly available cloud and application infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate combines strong cloud and systems engineering expertise with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containers, CI/CD, observability, networking, automation, and production troubleshooting. This role will partner closely with application development, architecture, security, networking, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and automated platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Proven experience designing and implementing technical solutions that integrate multiple applications, infrastructure components, and enterprise platforms to address complex business and production requirements.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technical architecture, system design, integration patterns, availability, scalability, and operational reliability.
• Excellent troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills in complex production environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, architecture, security, networking, operations, and business stakeholders.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

Demonstrated hands-on experience with:

• AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, operations, security, and automation.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Configuration management and automation using Chef or comparable technologies.
• Virtualized and cloud environments, including VMware, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Administration and troubleshooting of Linux systems; Windows and macOS experience is beneficial.
• Enterprise load balancing and application delivery technologies such as F5.

Automation & DevOps

• Strong programming and automation skills using Python; experience with Perl or similar scripting languages is beneficial.
• Experience integrating systems and automating operational processes using REST APIs.
• Strong working knowledge of Git or comparable version-control platforms.
• Strong experience in Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.
• Ability to develop reusable automation that improves deployment consistency, operational efficiency, and system reliability.

Networking, Security & Enterprise Services

• TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, routing, and network troubleshooting.
• LDAP, SSO, authentication and authorization standards, and enterprise identity integration.
• SMTP, email routing, and related messaging infrastructure.
• Cloud security fundamentals, certificates, secrets management, identity federation, and least-privilege access.

Observability & Production Operations

• Experience implementing and operating monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance-management solutions.
• Strong ability to query, analyze, and visualize operational data using Open Telemetry, Splunk, Bindplane and Click house.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, containers, cloud services, and application layers.
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks, perform root-cause analysis, and drive complex production incidents through resolution.
• Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, capacity, performance, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced experience designing and operating production workloads on GCP / AWS.
• Experience managing Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
• Experience creating reusable Terraform modules and standardized cloud infrastructure patterns.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps, observability, and operational automation practices.
• Experience with cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, certificates, and security controls.
• Experience modernizing traditional infrastructure and VM-based workloads into cloud-native and containerized architectures.

Minimum Required Experience: 10 Years

EOE, including disability/vets