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Please note, this is a fully onsite position at our facility in Greensboro, NC. Also, there is a 1 week on-call rotation about once every 2 months.

Technical Summary:

This role will be responsible for supporting IRIS and batch services and functionality running on Linux operating systems that are hosted both on-prem and in cloud. These services form the backbone of important Epic systems at Kaiser, such as Health Connect, Claims Connect, & Membership Connect. As such, internal client groups include stakeholders in both care delivery and health plan insurance. Typical responsibilities include installing, supporting, troubleshooting upgrades, patches, fixes, security, incident resolution, scripting and an on-call rotation within the Server Systems team. Other responsibilities include working with vendors, such as Epic & Kyndryl, and using tools such as Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS). This role will also be involved with enterprise-wide initiatives, such as instance consolidations.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for planning, designing, and building database systems that are stable, recoverable, and integrated with other available technology stacks for the purpose of efficient, secure data utilization. This includes understanding the interoperability between databases and other dependent technology stacks (performance scalability, stability, capacity planning, etc.), possessing familiarity with one dependent technology stack (e.g. windows admin, networking, storage, etc.), working with engineering teams to recommend alternate solutions, and consulting as a 2nd level technical expert on specific platforms. Some of the unique challenges this position will face include database considerations for a large, corporate enterprise and a high degree of complexity and non-uniformity.

Essential Responsibilities:

Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.

Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.

Supports the review of team deliverables.

Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs.

Collaborates with team members to develop project support plans, schedules, and assignments.

Translates business and functional requirements into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for designated infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.

Serves as a liaison with business partners, Solutions, and enterprise architects to define and understand target strategies.

Collaborates with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation.

Develops and modifies solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems.

Provides consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities.

Reviews and makes changes to technical specifications and documentation.

Collaborates with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provides solutions, as appropriate.

Evaluates existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels.

Evaluates new service options, identifies issues and impacts, and provides recommendations on feasibility and ROI.

Collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable designs.

Verifies system designs adhere to company architecture standards.

Drives physical architecture design for new initiatives.

Leads the implementation of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems to ensure successful deployment and operation by developing and documenting detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services.