Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Platform Engineer

Are you interested in solving complex problems within the healthcare sector? Would you like to join a transformative company and play a meaningful role in crafting its future? Do you have a passion for infrastructure as code, and more modern methods for supporting systems? If so, we'd love to meet you!

AdvancedMD, a Global Payments Company, located in South Jordan, UT is looking for Platform Engineers (PFE) to join our growing ITSecOps department.  In AdvancedMD’s DevSecOps culture, the PFE team is responsible for building and maintaining our Infrastructure.  Our PFE team creates a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics.  By splitting our time between operations / and system process automation we consistently increase the reliability and performance of AdvancedMD’s cloud applications.

Responsibilities:

• Building cloud-native Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture, infrastructure, and software developer tools.
• Maintain the health of our Software as a Service (SaaS) product in the public cloud.
• Guide the evolution of our cloud architecture and infrastructure including the design, deployment, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters.
• Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for software development environments.
• Improve the availability, scalability, and performance of cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot, monitor and support cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and software environments.
• Implement security best practices for Kubernetes clusters, including role-based access control (RBAC) and network policies.
• Work as a technical escalation point for the Network Operations Center and Software Development teams.
• Enhance and optimize our CI/CD processes, Infrastructure as Code practices, and software delivery pipelines for increased efficiency and reliability.

Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or at least 3 years working in highly regulated environments in a technical role.
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes Engineering.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerization technologies such as Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, ADO pipeline, and Argo CD.
• Experience implementing and maintaining monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes clusters usings tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and/or ELK stack.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) especially AMI, EC2, RDS, Route53, S3, ECS, IAM, CloudFront, FSx, Systems Manager, Lambda, and VPC
• Experience with CI/CD for scaling applications including repository and branch management using Git/Github/Azure DevOps/CodeCommit
• Experience with IIS, Nginx, PowerShell, and Python
• Knowledge of serverless and cloud-native architecture
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Shell, Python, Powershell)
• Experience with configuration management tools like Consul and Vault
• Understanding of networking concepts
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Participate in Change Management and Incident Review meetings.
• Database experience (MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, AWS RDS Aurora)
• Continually evaluate and adopt the latest industry technologies to optimize costs and streamline processes.
• Adhere to good development practices: documentation/SOPs, code standards, code/design reviews, optimization, and maintainability.
• Support services before they go live through activities like system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
• Participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.
• Experience with continuous deployment in a high-availability environment
• Has or is working towards achieving the AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect Associate certifications.

About AdvancedMD:
AdvancedMD is a healthcare technology company that employs more than 600 people. The company offers cloud medical office software to ambulatory medical practices.

The company supports independent physicians and their staff with a comprehensive suite of solutions including practice management, electronic health records, telemedicine, patient relationship management, and business analytics reporting. AdvancedMD offers a flexible outsourced billing option for practices looking to use a third-party billing company.

Clients enjoy the latest tools and technologies to integrate practice and patient workflow together for a revolutionary new practice experience. With AdvancedMD medical practices are able to manage higher patient volumes with improved productivity and financial outcomes. Patients are able to electronically connect and engage with their providers and healthcare experience.

AdvancedMD serves an expansive national footprint of more than 37,000 practitioners across 13,000 practices and 700 medical billing companies. Nearly 6.5M insurance claims are processed every month on the AdvancedMD billing platform.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.