Job Summary
Infra Dev Specialist role for an experienced professional with strong Terraform & GITHUB expertise and deep exposure to Medicare and Medicaid claims working in a hybrid model on day shifts. The role focuses on building reliable infrastructure as code improving automation and enabling secure scalable platforms that support critical healthcare claim processing systems.
Responsibilities
- Design automated infrastructure as code solutions using Terraform to build secure resilient and scalable cloud environments that support high volume Medicare and Medicaid claims processing systems.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and templates that standardize infrastructure patterns and improve consistency reliability and maintainability across multiple healthcare platforms.
- Implement robust state management strategies for Terraform including remote state storage versioning and locking to reduce configuration drift and operational risks in regulated environments.
- Optimize infrastructure deployments by tuning Terraform plans and applies to reduce execution times resource waste and operational costs while ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
- Coordinate with application and claims processing teams to translate business and domain requirements into infrastructure specifications that support end to end claim lifecycle workflows.
- Conduct impact assessments for infrastructure changes related to Medicare and Medicaid claim systems to ensure continuity data integrity and adherence to payer and provider service expectations.
- Establish monitoring logging and alerting standards for cloud resources provisioned via Terraform to improve observability incident response and service reliability for healthcare stakeholders.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed policy controls tagging standards and configuration baselines into Terraform code to support audits in the healthcare domain.
- Create detailed documentation runbooks and diagrams describing infrastructure designs workflows and Terraform processes to help teams operate systems confidently.
- Perform code reviews for Terraform changes to ensure quality adherence to standards and reduction of operational incidents in critical claims processing platforms.
- Guide continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing incident trends performance metrics and deployment feedback to refine Terraform practices and infrastructure designs.
- Engage with cross functional teams in a hybrid work model to align infrastructure roadmaps with evolving Medicare and Medicaid program requirements and technology strategies.
- Participate in knowledge sharing sessions and internal communities to spread best practices in infrastructure as code and healthcare domain awareness across teams.
Qualifications
- Demonstrate at least ten years of overall technology experience with significant focus on infrastructure engineering automation and operations within complex enterprise environments.
- Show extensive hands on experience designing and delivering infrastructure as code solutions with Terraform including modules workspaces and integration with version control workflows.
- Exhibit strong domain experience working with Medicare and Medicaid claim processing platforms including understanding of claim lifecycles adjudication rules and regulatory expectations.
- Apply practical knowledge of cloud platforms such as major public cloud providers to architect secure compliant and highly available environments for healthcare applications using Terraform.
- Utilize solid skills in networking security and identity concepts to design infrastructure that protects sensitive healthcare data while maintaining performance and availability.
- Display experience with CI and CD pipelines and tooling to automate validation testing and deployment of Terraform code to lower environments and production systems.
- Communicate clearly in hybrid settings using documentation and discussions to align technical decisions with stakeholder expectations and regulatory constraints.
- Maintain familiarity with industry frameworks and healthcare compliance requirements such as standards for information security and privacy to ensure infrastructure solutions remain audit ready.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
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