Principal Cloud Architect

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Of Chicago

Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 130000 - 214510

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

Location

680 Lake Shore Drive

Job Description

The Cloud Architect is responsible for defining the organizations cloud strategy and ensuring the infrastructure meets its business and technical requirements. This includes cloud adoption plans cloud application design and cloud management and monitoring. The Cloud Architect will oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud environments including public cloud private cloud and hybrid cloud.

Essential Job Functions:

Develop and maintain a cloud strategy that enables the organization to implement solutions and capabilities in the cloud that are aligned with business and technical requirements.
Design deploy and manage cloud-based architecture across the organization using industry best practices focusing on efficiency scalability availability performance and security.
Define cloud adoption process that can coordinate and align adoption across the organization and ensure business continuity.
Evaluate and select appropriate cloud technologies platforms and tools to meet the companys needs and drive innovation.
Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
Identify and recommend monitoring logging and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the cloud infrastructure.
Identify and recommend performance bottlenecks security vulnerabilities and other operational issues in the cloud environment.
Stay up to date with the latest trends technologies and best practices in cloud computing distributed systems and cyber security.
Other job functions as assigned.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Masters or Bachelors degree preferably in Computer Science related expertise.
10 years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines including technical cloud architecture network management middleware database management or operations.
Certification in Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect AZ-305 is required. Other industry related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Arcitura Certified Cloud Architect etc. are highly desired.
Experience with Azure Shell scripting/PowerShell scripting
Knowledge of all components of technical architecture
Understanding of Windows Server architecture Windows 2016 Windows 2019 and IIS;
Understanding of Linux Server architecture RHEL Oracle Linux Amazon Linux etc.
Experience with containers and orchestration technologies.
Familiarity with server hardware selection design and troubleshooting.
Understanding of High Availability and Networked Storage solutions including Clustering Failover and Disaster Recovery products and concepts such as MS Clustering Services Load Balancing Routers LUNS SAN and NAS;
Understanding of application layer protocols such as HTTP/S TCP/IP UDP and Web sockets.
Demonstrated abilities with SSO-related software such as AADConnect ADFS Ping Identity OpenSSO oAuth Okta or other SAML & OpenID Connect providers.
Hands on experience designing and deploying complex solutions in Azure
Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight systems thinking and design thinking.
Excellent analytical planning and organizational skills.
Excellent written verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Education

Bachelors Degree

Pay Range

$130000.00-$214510.40 Salary

At Lurie Childrens we are committed to competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity reflecting individual contributions experience and expertise. The pay range for this job indicates minimum and maximum targets for the position. Ranges are regularly reviewed to stay aligned with market conditions.In addition to base salary Lurie Childrens offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees leadership incentivesfor select roles health and retirement benefits and wellbeing programs. For more details on other compensation consult your recruiter or click the followinglink to learn more about our benefits.

Benefit Statement

For full time and part time employees who work 20 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

Medical dental and vision insurance

Employer paid group term life and disability

Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off (PTO) Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave

403(b) with a 5% employer match

Various voluntary benefits:

Supplemental Life AD&D and Disability
Critical Illness Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
Tuition assistance
Student loan servicing and support
Adoption benefits
Backup Childcare and Eldercare
Employee Assistance Program and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
Discount on services at Lurie Childrens facilities
Discount purchasing program

Theres a Place for You with Us

At Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago and its affiliates (collectively Lurie Childrens) we embrace and celebrate diversity and equity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds skills and viewpoints recognizing that diverse identities strengthen our workplace and the care we can provide to the Chicago community and beyond. We treat everyone fairly appreciate differences and make meaningful connections that foster belonging and is a place where you can be your best so we can give our best to the patients and families who trust us with their care.

Lurie Childrens and its affiliates are equal employment opportunity employers. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion national origin ancestry age disability marital status pregnancy protected veteran status order of protection status protected genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC