Staff Engineer, IS Application Delivery

Job Description:

Work across the product development and IS organizations to engineer infrastructure, tools, and best practices to improve the client experience and operational efficiency. Collaborate with software engineering to deploy and automate cloud applications, services, and infrastructure. Build and maintain tools to support the development and deployment of healthcare services in the cloud. 

• Automate deployment of applications and infrastructure as part of the application development process.
• Work throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure applications are scalable, available, efficient, and performant.
• Develop and support internal tools and services to integrate, deploy, and operate applications to optimize impact on department results.
• Consult with and advise senior stakeholders, development, product, and operations teams on DevOps best practices; make recommendations for solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Perform collaborative infrastructure development and testing to ensure IS App Delivery will meet the demands of the organization’s and client’s rapidly growing systems.
• Improve automated cloud configuration, deployments, monitoring, management, and incident response.
• Collaborate to investigate and remediate complex issues, striving for integrated, automated monitoring and self-healing, bringing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to IS operations.
• Create and provide training documentation to assist new staff and internal teams.

Education Required:  

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline. 
• Or, any combination of education and experience which would provide the required qualifications for the position.

Experience Required:

• 6+ years of experience in systems administration, software engineering, software development, or related discipline.

License/Certification Required:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect / Developer / SysOps Administrator.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of: Windows or Linux shell scripting and coding with a language like Python; infrastructure-as-code tooling like CloudFormation & Terraform; deploying and managing enterprise-scale applications in cloud services like AWS; Linux operating system; configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and containerization technologies; building and testing software using Jenkins or similar continuous integration systems; relational and/or NoSQL databases like Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB; Microsoft Office Suite.
• Skill in: Working as member of a team; communicating effectively; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Ability to: Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes; work in a fast-paced environment; stay organized, prioritize workload, multi-task, and meet deadlines.

The company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the company may deem appropriate.

NextGen Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.