Kubernetes Engineer

Department Name:

Digital Transform-Foundation

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Information Technology

Banner Health was named to Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America 2025 list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. We’re proud to be recognized for our commitment to the latest health care advancements and excellent patient care.

The Kubernetes and Containerization team is part of Cloud Platform Engineering and is responsible for building and operating the container platform that Banner Health's application teams deploy onto. We design and automate the multi-account Amazon EKS environment, the Terraform modules that provision it, the GitHub Actions and GitOps pipelines that deliver to it, and the security, networking, and observability guardrails built into it. Our work allows engineering teams across Banner to deliver clinical, patient-facing, and business applications faster and more securely, and it serves as a foundation of Banner's enterprise migration from the data center to the cloud. Because our platform runs workloads subject to HIPAA and HITRUST requirements, security and reliability are central to everything the team builds.

Banner Health is currently seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to help build and support this platform. In this role you will write Terraform to extend our EKS modules, maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, manage cluster and gateway upgrades, tune platform performance and cost, and onboard application teams onto the platform and its self-service capabilities. You will participate in design and architecture reviews, write runbooks and documentation, and partner regularly with security, networking, and application engineering teams. This is a fully remote position with a typical schedule of Monday-Friday, 8a-5p, and may include participation in an on-call rotation supporting the platform. An ideal candidate would have hands-on production Kubernetes experience, strong infrastructure-as-code skills in Terraform, scripting ability (Python, Go, or Bash), familiarity with AWS, and an automation-first mindset. Experience with Oracle Cloud (OCI/OKE) is a plus, as we plan to extend the platform to OCI in a future phase. This is a remote position. In this role you would work Monday through Friday normal business hours and can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY.

Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is a highly experienced individual contributor in Development Operations. The position will lead a project team to perform the tasks necessary to analyze, design, configure, implement and support PaaS solutions, related services, processes, applications, and integrations. This will involve influencing IT functional areas, product owners and vendors to develop detailed design, execution and troubleshooting of strategic solutions in support of these systems. The position leads the efforts of resolving application and configuration issues/concerns, providing ongoing analysis of performance, implementation of approved changes, and ensuring continual service improvements. Will be responsible for Architect Cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Responsible for all aspects of application production support, deployment and monitoring and develop tools to support these activities. Leads mission critical applications and associated platforms, ensuring the highest levels of availability, security, performance and stability are always maintained. Designs and builds tools and solutions with a strong bias towards automating as many aspects of support as possible to reduce or eliminate trivial support activities.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Anticipates internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve services, processes or products. Manages projects or programs. Recognized as an expert within the organization and within their field or function.

2. Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Presents complex ideas, anticipates potential objectives and persuades others to adopt a different point of view.

3. Develops innovative services, technologies, processes or products that address current and future customer problems or needs. Interacts primarily with customers, peers, peers’ managers, patients and physicians across the organization.

4. Makes decisions with general functional, company and industry guidelines. May manage budget for large and/or complex projects or programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working knowledge.

Must have in-depth knowledge of concepts within job function as would normally be obtained in eight to twelve years' work experience developing Enterprise Applications. Must possess strong knowledge of programming and cloud technology. Needs experience in medium scale project planning. Successful candidate will have skills to mentor less experienced team members. Requires strong communication and presentation skills to explain and resolve complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences. Requires ability to influence and interact across facilities and at various levels. As is typical in this industry, variable shifts and hours and carrying/responding to a pager may be required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Cloud platform Certifications: AZ-301, AZ-400, and AZ-500. Significant development and operations / engineering experience with the ability to apply that knowledge to solve complex problems. Three to four years' experience implementing Enterprise Cloud Solutions. Strong working knowledge of Java/C++/C#/.Net Core, hardware environment, and use of program logic.

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Estimated Pay Range:

$53.63 - $89.38 / hour

Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.



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