IT Infrastructure Engineer IV at Kaiser Permanente

Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

IT Infrastructure, DevOps, Waterfall, Agile, Systems Development, Networking, Cloud-based Solutions, Technical Leadership, Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Design, Troubleshooting, Distributed Technologies, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Documentation

Industry

Medical Practices

Description

Job Summary: This individual contributor is primarily responsible for providing consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, assisting in setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams. Essential Responsibilities: Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities. Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Supports the review of team deliverables. Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs. Collaborates with team members to develop project support plans, schedules, and assignments. Translates business and functional requirements into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for designated infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications. Serves as a liaison with business partners, Solutions, and enterprise architects to define and understand target strategies. Collaborates with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation. Develops and modifies solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems. Provides consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Reviews and makes changes to technical specifications and documentation. Collaborates with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provides solutions, as appropriate. Evaluates existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels. Evaluates new service options, identifies issues and impacts, and provides recommendations on feasibility and ROI. Collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable designs. Verifies system designs adhere to company architecture standards. Drives physical architecture design for new initiatives. Leads the implementation of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems to ensure successful deployment and operation by developing and documenting detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum one (1) year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities

This role involves providing technical consultation and infrastructure design for complex systems while leading project teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical specifications and ensure adherence to architecture standards.