Anticipated End Date:
2026-06-26

Position Title:
Engineer Lead (AWS | CI/CD | Terraform | GitLab/Bitbucket)

Job Description:

Engineer Lead (AWS | CI/CD | Terraform | GitLab/Bitbucket)

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Engineer Lead (AWS | CI/CD | Terraform | GitLab/Bitbucket) will be responsible for full delivery of end to end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise wide technology platforms.

How you will make an impact:

• Own and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (build, test, security checks, deploy).
• Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, environments, state management).
• Standardize deployments across teams using GitLab CI or Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
• Improve security posture (least privilege IAM, secrets management, policy-as-code).
• Collaborate with developers to automate releases and reduce lead time.
• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
• Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
• Owns the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team.
• Leads multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi platform, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering (or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• 3+ years hands-on AWS and Terraform in production strongly preferred.
• Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines for multiple services and environments strongly preferred.
• EKS production experience (Helm, Argo CD/Flux) preferred.
• Policy as code (OPA, Sentinel) and cloud governance practices preferred.
• FinOps / cost optimization experience preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below locations, the salary* range for this specific position is $139,744 to $209,616.

Location: Illinois

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Job Level:
Non-Management Exempt

Workshift:

Job Family:
IFT > Engineering/Dev

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