Cloud Engineer Kubernetes and GCP

Cardinal Health a global leader in healthcare innovation is seeking a Cloud Engineer to help drive the evolution of our enterprisescale cloud and CI/CD platforms. Operating in a multicloud multitenant environment our platforms support thousands of developers across hundreds of teams powering missioncritical workloads across IaaS PaaS and CaaS models.

As part of the Serverless Platforms Team you will help design build operate and continuously improve our cloudnative and CI/CD platformsincluding Kubernetes serverless runtimes and the enterprise Harness CI/CD ecosystem. You will work closely with application teams security partners and platform stakeholders to deliver secure scalable and repeatable deployment patterns using GitOps infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices.

With a strong foundation in cloudnative development and platform engineering you will help ensure our platforms are reliable governed and easy to consumewhile fostering a culture of technical excellence automation and continuous improvement. If you are passionate about Kubernetes CI/CD platforms and solving complex platformscale challenges join us to help shape the future of healthcare technology.

Role Summary

As a Cloud Engineer your primary responsibility will be to design deploy and support containerized and serverless platforms on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and to operate and evolve the enterprise Harness CI/CD platform. You will enable application teams to build test and deploy software through standardized secure and scalable pipelines while ensuring platform reliability compliance and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and workloads on GKE using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
• Operate and support the enterprise Harness CI/CD platform including build deploy and infrastructure pipelines ensuring availability reliability and consistent developer experience across teams.
• Develop and maintain standardized Harness pipeline templates for build test security scanning and deployment to Kubernetes and serverless runtimes.
• Partner with application teams to onboard services to Harness providing guidance troubleshooting and bestpractice enablement.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g. Terraform) and GitOps solutions (e.g. ArgoCD Flux) to support repeatable and auditable deployments.
• Embed security and compliance controls into CI/CD workflows including vulnerability scanning policy enforcement secrets management and audit logging to meet HIPAA SOX and enterprise security requirements.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps and Application Security teams to shift security left within the SDLC leveraging tools such as Trivy Aqua or equivalent scanners integrated into Harness pipelines.
• Monitor platform health pipeline execution and application performance using tools such as Dynatrace Prometheus and cloudnative monitoring; perform root cause analysis and drive incident resolution.
• Participate in code and pipeline reviews establish platform standards and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
• Enforce platform governance and guardrails using policyascode approaches (e.g. OPA) ensuring consistency observability and compliance across all environments.
• Act as a technical liaison between the Serverless Platforms Team and partner organizations translating business and delivery needs into scalable platform capabilities.
• Communicate platform changes incident status and best practices through clear runbooks release notes and stakeholder updates; facilitate working sessions to drive alignment and unblock delivery.
• Stay current with cloudnative and CI/CD trends contributing to the ongoing evolution of Cardinal Healths cloud and DevOps strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in cloud engineering with a strong focus on Kubernetes and GCP (preferred).
• Handson experience designing operating or supporting CI/CD platforms preferably Harness CI/CD in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of microservices eventdriven architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with GitOps Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery pipelines.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices security scanning and compliance requirements in regulated environments.
• Exceptional communication skillsable to translate complex platform and security concepts for both technical and nontechnical audiences and to influence outcomes through clear documentation and stakeholder alignment.
• Proven problemsolving skills and the ability to operate effectively in complex evolving environments.

Candidates who are back-to-work people with disabilities without a college degree and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ancestry age physical or mental disability sex sexual orientation gender identity/expression pregnancy veteran status marital status creed status with regard to public assistance genetic status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.

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