[Remote] Principal Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mayo Clinic is a top-ranked healthcare provider dedicated to patient care and employee development. They are seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and evolve the cloud architecture strategy for Mayo Clinic Platform, focusing on Google Cloud Platform while contributing to design and implementation efforts.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• 100% remote work
• 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.

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