Engineer Lead

Location: Ideal candidates will be able to report to our Pulse Point location at 2015 Staples Mill Rd., Richmond, VA 23230

Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

The Engineer Lead is responsible for full delivery of end-to-end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise-wide technology platforms.

How you will make an impact: 

• Maintain active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and lead requirements gathering meetings. Review designs with the business.
• May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Develop and define application scope and objectives and supervise the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Design and evaluate systems architecture for PEGA applications in compliance with company guidelines and requirements.
• Configure and maintain on-premises/cloud/container-based infrastructure for Pega application built on a diverse stack of tools/software.
• Work on user authentication and authorization to the application using OIDC/SAML/SSO/LDAP as per application specific requirement.
• Work on PEGA product upgrade activities across the workflow environments and define backup strategy for production releases of the applications.
• Build lightweight, reusable, and efficient Docker images tailored as per application requirement.
• Create custom YAML files to deploy Pods and other Services in Openshift container platform.
• Analyze and configure Pod Replica Count, Resource Limits, Health-check probes, and Annotations for Routes and other services in applications hosted on container-based infrastructure.
• Work on code level changes to achieve BLUE-GREEN deployment model with zero downtime to users during production releases.
• Follow Agile methodology to update status in daily scrum meetings and track defects and progress in JIRA.
• Transforming apps to be cloud native as part of on-premises application infrastructure migration to AWS cloud.
• Develop Terraform scripts (IaC-Infrastructure as code) that can be used by multiple applications to deploy EC2, EBS, Security groups, and other AWS resources.
• Configure items such as cookie invalidation, node quiescing, and crash recovery to utilize Pega High Availability capabilities.
• Configure Pega BIX Jobs for extracting reporting DB data from application through Jenkins/ Bamboo pipeline.
• Work closely with PEGA Systems GCS team to report bugs in the PRPC software.
• Work alongside performance testing teams, to analyze test result and make configuration changes, scale infrastructure, or fine tune JVM arguments that would help enhance system overall performance.
• Monitor dashboards from Splunk, AppDynarnics, Datadog, and other monitoring tools to identify areas of improvement in system performance and to take proactive measures to avoid production outages.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field of study.
• Seven (7) years of any occupation with IT experience, or related.
• Seven (7) years of required Information Technology (IT), or related experience must include: PEGA; Linux; WebSphere; SOAP UI; MS SQL Server; Oracle DB; and Jenkins.

Alternate Education / Experience Requirements:

• Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field of study and five (5) years of experience. Must have skills listed above.

"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.”

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.