Principal Systems Engineer - HCA Healthcare
Nashville, TN 37203
About the Job
Description
Introduction
Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Principle Systems Engineer opening with HCA Healthcare today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.
Benefits
HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
- Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
We are seeking a Principle Systems Engineer for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!
Job Summary and Qualifications
So, what’ll I be doing?
The Principle Systems Engineer’s role is to lead and manage the building and integration of systems and platforms. Candidates provide engineering skills that cover a broad range of IT disciplines such as Azure, database, website administration, network system setup, and automation. Candidates are expected to be capable of meeting objectives with very little supervision. We need motivated, independent engineers who can work well within a team, effectively communicate thoughts and ideas, and bring a high level of innovation and quality.
Alright, but can you tell me more about the team and how I’d contribute?
You’ll be joining the System Engineering team! Our team acts as leaders in both the Engineering and Operational space in our org. With every Engineer empowered to make decisions on the platforms and infrastructure they own, you’ll be expected to improve, automate, and maintain your owned systems.
Our team’s values are simple:
- We believe it is critical to maintain realistic expectations and work life balance.
- We take great pride in the work we do and are driven to put our best foot forward.
- We’re willing to go out of our way to lend a helping hand and support one another.
- We’re always looking to continuously improve ourselves and our work.
Sounds great! What would my general responsibilities be?
- Works with stakeholders to create requirements for new infrastructure systems and platforms both on premise and in the cloud.
- Responsible for leading their “sphere of responsibility” in the Azure / Windows space.
- Participates in team strategy planning.
- Defines project plan and tasks.
- Leads efforts to create infrastructural architecture around new systems and platforms.
- Leads implementation efforts of systems and platforms, delivering quality solutions in a timely manner in compliance with defined requirements.
- Responsible for a specific technology stack within the team (e.g. Azure, GCP, Terraform, Storage, Microstrategy, Atlassian, etc.).
- Works with application delivery managers and application developers to deploy custom software and create automated deployment solutions.
- Provides support to application development teams for infrastructure needs.
- Leads activities to proactively maintain and upgrade platforms and systems, preferably with automation.
- Responsible for defining and executing operational procedures for systems and platforms in their areas of expertise, preferably with automation.
- Works with the DBA team to integrate systems and applications with databases.
- Manages documentation of infrastructure standards.
- Develops automation capabilities to automate the deployment and maintenance of systems and platforms.
- Identify, investigate, evaluate, and quickly become proficient in new technologies and technical disciplines that are of significance to HealthTrust.
- Coaches team on use of approved methodologies, processes and toolsets defined within the operations and infrastructure services group.
- Mentoring junior engineers.
RELEVANT WORK
- 10+ years
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s Degree Prefer
What experience or skills would help me excel in this role?
- Significant experience in deploying technically complex infrastructure and computing solutions across platforms and components, preferably with automation.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare and maintain documentation.
- Experience in building automation using tools such as ansible, terraform, powershell, command shell, scripting, database and/or application programming.
- Specific platform knowledge in one or more key areas of cloud architecture and/or Application platforms such as Azure, GCP, Terraform, Microstrategy, Atlassian, etc.
- Experience working with virtualization technologies, such as VMWare, cloud virtualization, storage.
- Solid understanding and experience with operating system concepts and practical implementation of those fundamentals in a large-scale production environment.
- Experience supporting custom application development.
- Nice to have, but not required, experience with the technologies utilized by our organization:
- Cloud IaaS – Azure, GCP, AWS
- Cloud PaaS technologies – Azure functions, Logic Apps, Webapps, GKS/AKS, etc.
- Automation & System Management – Github, Ansible Tower, Azure DevOps
- Configuration Management – Terraform, Ansible
- Network technologies – F5s, DNS
- Security technologies - Ping Federate, certificate management, etc.
- Virtualization technologies – Vmware
- Business Intelligence platform - Microstrategy
- Application Platforms – .NET, Sitecore, Java, SharePoint
- Cloud and on Prem backup technologies – General knowledge
- Monitoring platforms – Solarwinds
- Big Data platform - Splunk
- Search technologies - Reddis
- SAN & NAS technologies – General Knowledge
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Across HCA Healthcare’s more than 2,000 sites of care, our nurses and colleagues have a positive impact on patients, communities and healthcare.
Together, we uplift and elevate our purpose to give people a healthier tomorrow."- Jane Englebright, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Consulting Systems Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.