Principal Platform Engineer
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- Location
- Rochester or Phoenix or Scottsdale or Jacksonville
- Work type
- Remote
- Compensation
- $155,500 - $225,400/yr
- Posted
- 4 days ago
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About this role
Reporting to the Mayo Clinic Platform (MCP) Director of Technology, the Principal Cloud Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the overall cloud architecture strategy for Mayo Clinic Platform, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role serves as the technical authority for cloud architecture while remaining deeply hands-on, contributing directly to complex design decisions, implementations, and troubleshooting efforts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the target-state architecture for Mayo Clinic Platform in GCP.
- Actively contribute to the design and implementation of complex cloud solutions, including hands-on involvement in critical systems.
- Establish and enforce cloud architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Ensure alignment of cloud architecture with enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with engineering, product, security, compliance and data teams to ensure solutions align with platform architecture and standards.
- Serve as the primary expert in GCP, with deep, hands-on experience across compute, storage, IAM, networking (VPC design, hybrid connectivity, network security, service networking), and observability services.
- Conduct deep technical architecture reviews, including code, infrastructure, and deployment patterns.
- Provide hands-on guidance and mentorship to teams implementing cloud-native and Kubernetes-based solutions.
- Act as a trusted advisor for complex technical initiatives and strategic programs.
- Define the vision, scope, and operating model for the SRE function within Mayo Clinic Platform.
- Establish and operationalize service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
- Implement observability, incident management, and automation practices to improve system reliability.
- Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps, and automated remediation strategies.
- Ensure platform operability, including monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added or assigned.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant information technology field or a minimum 10 years of direct full-stack engineering with increasing complexity or 5 years in a principal engineer capacity.
• 3-5 years project management, system architecture, and design.
• 3-5 years working in diverse environments utilizing Agile principles of software development.
• Principal level experience with Hyperscale Cloud Environments and their configurations (Google preferred. AWS or Azure considered).
• Experience with enterprise information security systems and application in a public cloud environment. Understanding of healthcare specific considerations such as HIPAA and HITRUST strongly desired.
• Principal level experience in DevOps and CI/CD principles.
• Experience directly delivering and supporting clinical systems.
• Experience with cloud architecture, deployments, and management in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with Interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Experience with solutions integration/delivery in a healthcare setting.
Desired Characteristics:
• Experience in driving and leading technology development and technical capability to guide strategically and manage resources.
• Experience with technology change management specifically around SDLC end of life and feature migration processes.
• Business acumen, to gauge not just what can be done but to know what can be completed cost effectively and sustainably.
• This person must have the ability to promote and explain technology initiatives to business leaders outside of the technology organization and to external partners and customers.
• The selected individual must combine a solid technical foundation with forward-looking strategic skills to help develop a Platform strategy to enable Mayo Clinic to capitalize on emerging technologies.
• Ability to think beyond the technology itself and will understand key business drivers that ensure technology investment will provide substantial value or improvements to customers.
About Company
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the "EOE is the Law". Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Company
Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.
- Medical: Multiple plan options.
- Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
- Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.