Cloud Architect

Company Description

IKS Health enables the enhanced delivery of exceptional healthcare for today’s practicing clinicians, medical groups and health systems. Supporting healthcare providers through every function of the patient visit, IKS Health is a go-to resource for organizations looking to effectively scale, improve quality and achieve cost savings through integrated technology and forward-thinking solutions. Founded in 2007, we have grown a global workforce of 14,000 employees serving over 150,000 clinicians in many of the largest hospitals, health systems, and specialty groups in the United States.

IKS Health revitalizes the clinician-patient relationship while empowering healthcare organizations to thrive. We take on the chores of healthcare — spanning administrative, clinical, and operational burdens — so that clinicians can focus on their core purpose: delivering great care. Combining pragmatic technology and dedicated experts, our solutions enable stronger, financially sustainable enterprises. By bringing joy and purpose back to medicine, we’re creating transformative value in healthcare and empowering clinicians to build healthier communities.

Role

Primarily GCP

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deliver large-scale, high-availability, and fault-tolerant systems on GCP and Azure.
• Lead enterprise cloud strategy and migration efforts from on-premise or other clouds to GCP and Azure.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on support in designing complex, enterprise-grade GCP and Azure solutions.
• Establish cloud architecture frameworks, best practices, and governance.
• Define and implement best practices for GCP and Azure deployments, security, cost optimization, and scalability.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to automate infrastructure and application delivery.
• Support the team in troubleshooting complex operational issues on cloud.
• Ensure architectural decisions align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party solutions to complement native GCP and Azure offerings.
• Provide GCP technical leadership in client meetings, proposals, and PoCs.
• Create architecture diagrams, documentation, and deployment templates using IaC (Terraform/Deployment Manager).
• Stay up to date with the latest GCP and Azure services and trends, and proactively suggest improvements.

equired Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ Year knowledge in IT Infrastructure, 7+ years of experience in cloud computing, with 3+ years focused on Google Cloud Platform.
• GCP Certifications such as Professional Cloud Architect (

  mandatory

  ) or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (preferred).
• Proficiency in GCP services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, VPC, GKE, IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, etc.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, compliance, and governance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Deployment Manager, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and automation.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms like Azure is a definite plus.
• Experience leading end-to-end cloud transformation engagements.
• Good understanding of Cloud FinOps and knowledge of one of the FinOps tools.