Devops Director

Role Description:
Location: Atlanta, GA preferred. Alternate locations may be considered.
This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The Ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.
Role Summary:
The Director I Technology (DevOps Director) will be responsible for setup, configuration, monitoring and management of IT applications cloud and on-prem infrastructure. It would include vendor system integrations, network connectivity and security aspects of data and infrastructure.
Main Responsibilities:

• Define and implement strategy approach for E2E management of cloud and on-prem infrastructure of technology platforms and systems supporting large scale PBM Pharmacy business operations
• Collaborate with both IT Business leaders across the enterprise to determine DevOps best practices and Infrastructure technical requirements of applications systems
• Responsible to build CICD automation pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and manage deployments across the various environments
• Implement 24x7 infrastructure and application performance monitoring (APM) to ensure high availability, an optimal performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
• Ensures disaster recovery, business continuity and audit plans are implemented, monitored, and updated on a recurring basis
• At a regular cadence identify and exploit opportunities to optimize infrastructure, increase efficiency without any negative impact to ongoing business operations
• Act as an escalation point for faults, attend lead investigation into incidents and complete follow-up tasks
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluates performance of direct reports

Areas of Expertise / Deliverables Required:

• Infrastructure as Code, Infrastructure design and scaling (Vertical and HPA) containers in Kubernetes
• CICD pipeline development and automation
• Observability Monitoring (Infra. and APM)
• Cloud Networking Security Integration AWS and Azure with Hybrid On-prem
• Tactical Operations Cloud patching, AMI rehydration, Cluster upgrades etc.
• SRE Frontline operations, Incident Management, Rapid response

Tools / Technologies:

• Azure and AWS Experience - Must have
• GitHub, Terraform, Datadog, Splunk, Bamboo, BitBucket - Must have PostgreSQL, Oracle, RedShift, Snowflake, Kafka - Must have
• Apigee OPDK Hybrid X, Akamai
• Copilot, CheckmarxOne, Tekton, Argo, HELM, IAM, WizService Now, JIRA, Confluence