Senior Cloud Engineer

About GHX:
GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange) is a leading healthcare technology company on a mission to simplify the business of healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Founded in 2000, GHX has built the GHX Global Network — the world’s largest cloud-based supply chain community connecting healthcare providers, suppliers, distributors, and partners to automate key processes, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency. Its solutions span electronic trading, procurement automation, inventory and contract management, business intelligence, and data synchronization, helping healthcare organizations improve productivity and focus more on patient care. Over the years, GHX has enabled significant cost savings for the industry and continues to innovate with intelligent automation and AI-driven capabilities.
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About Role:
The Senior Cloud Engineer leads the design, implementation, and operations of the organization’s cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for complex projects, high-level architectural planning, and making strategic technology decisions that support scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization. Acting as a technical leader, the Senior Cloud Engineer provides mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers while driving innovation, resiliency, and compliance in cloud environments. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Design and Implementation 

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures and hybrid cloud solutions. 

• Oversee cloud engineering projects, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and cost-effective. 

• Contribute to high-level architectural planning and strategic decision-making around technology adoption. 

• Review and approve design proposals, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates, and automation workflows. 

• Identify risks in design and implementation plans and develop mitigation strategies. 

Management and Maintenance 

• Oversee the management of cloud resources across multiple platforms and environments. 

• Lead performance tuning, scaling strategies, and cost optimization efforts. 

• Make strategic decisions regarding upgrades, cloud service adoption, and configuration changes. 

• Ensure adherence to operational standards, SLAs, and governance policies. 

Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution 

• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex, high-impact issues across cloud platforms. 

• Oversee incident response and problem resolution by guiding junior and mid-level engineers. 

• Develop and implement proactive strategies to reduce recurring issues and increase platform reliability. 

• Serve as the final escalation point for cloud-related technical problems. 

Security and Compliance 

• Lead cloud security initiatives, including IAM strategy, data encryption, logging, monitoring, and incident response. 

• Oversee vulnerability management and implement security automation in cloud environments. 

• Ensure compliance with industry frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or NIST. 

• Develop strategies to improve security posture and enforce governance across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. 

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning 

• Lead cloud disaster recovery and continuity planning efforts across critical workloads. 

• Conduct advanced risk assessments, failover testing, and recovery exercises. 

• Make strategic decisions about resilience design, including multi-region, high availability, and backup solutions. 

• Drive improvements to disaster recovery strategies to align with evolving business needs. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience. 

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or IT infrastructure, with increasing technical leadership responsibilities. 

• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and familiarity with multi-cloud environments. 

• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation tools (e.g., GitHub/GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines). 

• Advanced knowledge of networking, container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/ECS), and operating systems. 

• Hands-on experience with VMware virtualization (vSphere/ESXi) including vSAN-based hyperconverged storage design, deployment, and operations. 

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V failover clustering using Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) for hyperconverged infrastructure. 

• Proven experience with cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks. 

• Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, and project management skills. 

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and strategic thinking abilities. 

GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

Disclaimer
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.