Principal Healthcare Cloud Engineer

InterSystems Cloud Development initiatives enable healthcare organizations to revolutionize their operations through innovative, cloud-based technology solutions. Our team thrives on integrating cutting-edge InterSystems technologies with leading public-cloud services to solve complex, high-impact problems.

In a dynamic environment driven by constant innovation, we excel through creative thinking, exceptional problem-solving, teamwork, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Every team member plays a critical role in our customers’ success, grounded in mutual trust and accountability. At InterSystems, we embrace change and challenge as catalysts for growth.

As a Principal Healthcare Cloud Engineer, you combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision and leadership. You will own the architecture, automation, and operational excellence of large-scale, mission-critical healthcare workloads—guiding cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers while collaborating with product, security, and executive stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Lead
• Design end-to-end cloud architectures (network, compute, storage, security) for InterSystems IRIS-based solutions, ensuring scalability, resiliency, performance, and compliance.
• Establish technical roadmaps and standards for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and security across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Serve as the technical authority in design reviews, threat modeling, DR planning, and performance tuning.
• Automate & Operate
• Build, deploy, orchestrate, and automate application and infrastructure packages using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, and Kubernetes-based tooling.
• Champion Git-centric workflows and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) to enable safe, repeatable releases.
• Drive rigorous monitoring, logging, and incident-response practices leveraging CloudWatch, Prometheus, Coralogix, Lacework, PagerDuty, or equivalent.
• Mentor & Influence
• Coach and develop senior and junior engineers; foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and psychological safety.
• Partner with product owners and customer executives to translate complex healthcare requirements (HL7 V2.x, C-CDA, FHIR) into robust cloud solutions.
• Lead post-incident reviews and capacity-planning sessions, ensuring lessons learned feed directly into architecture and process refinements.
• Innovate & Evangelize
• Evaluate emerging technologies (serverless, service mesh, confidential computing, AI-for-Ops) and drive adoption where they add measurable value.
• Represent InterSystems at industry events and customer briefings, articulating the technical vision and ROI of our cloud-first strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 10 + years managing production healthcare or regulated-industry environments, including application support, code deployment, and 24×7 operations.
• 10 + years building solutions with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability (Ensemble, Health Connect) and advanced ObjectScript development.
• Deep expertise in clinical data integration and interoperability (HL7 V2.x, C-CDA, FHIR, IHE profiles).
• Advanced Linux administration (Red Hat or Ubuntu); strong scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Demonstrated success leading architecture and incident-management efforts for high-availability, multi-AZ/region deployments.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect).
• Mastery of configuration-management and IaC (Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Tower, Puppet, Chef).
• Production experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, AKS) and service-mesh or serverless architectures.
• Solid understanding of Zero-Trust security principles, DevSecOps pipelines, and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Expertise in TCP/IP networking, VPN & Direct Connect, load balancing, storage performance, and Linux kernel internals.
• Experience driving large-scale cost-optimization and FinOps initiatives in cloud environments.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.