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Providence St. Joseph Health Director Software Engineering DIG - *Remote* in Renton, Washington
Description Providence is one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States. At Providence, we use our voice to advocate for vulnerable populations and health care reforms. We pursue innovative ways to transform health care by keeping people healthy, and making our services more convenient, accessible and affordable for all. In an increasingly uncertain world, we are committed to high-quality, compassionate health care for everyone-regardless of coverage or ability to pay. We help people and communities benefit from the best health care model for the future, today. The Digital Innovation Group (DIG) at Providence is a small but mighty product development and incubation team. We build next-gen tools that give patients convenient and easy access to health care anywhere, anytime. DIG is both a healthcare startup and a technology/product incubator. Our team gathers market data on effective solutions in the health care space and then builds out a product line with the latest and greatest technology. When market maturity hits, DIG enables the product to spin out as its own company. It is a unique mix of venture capitalists, digital strategists, marketing acumen, product development and engineering all in one group nestled inside one of the largest health systems. We set the pace for other health care organizations around the country on how to conceive, engineer and launch effective health care solutions. Recently funded DIG startups include DexCare andPraia Health. Success in this role means you will have the opportunity to join future funded startups on the ground floor. As Director, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform you are responsible for a software development team building next-gen infrastructure tools for our healthcare incubation platform. You bring extensive experience operating cloud products at scale and understand how to operate effective security and compliance practices with automation as a key focus. This is a vital management role for the Digital Innovation Group at Providence. Key goals are: Lead SRE and operations teams to deliver secure, repeatable, reliable, and privacy-first cloud infrastructure and tools. You are a hands-on leader who defines product architecture and what success looks like from both a business and technology perspective. Develop effective relationships with your peers, internalize feedback, and get buy-in for the needs of the engineering team. Develop infrastructure roadmaps and work with engineering teams to plan, estimate, and deliver supporting infrastructure for their projects and product verticals. Own reporting tools to communicate to engineers and leadership the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, and operational health. Ride the crest of the tech wavefront with a voracious appetite for current technology trends. Manage, hire and develop a world-class engineering and operations team. Promote a culture of diversity and equity through hiring and developing talent and delivering the right products that support these values. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: In this position you: Set and deliver success metrics for a cloud native infrastructure as code engineering team including velocitydelivery, code quality, and operational effectiveness. You will deliver to both internal and external engineering teams. Guide and mentor team members in best practices for design and deployment of cloud networking infrastructure and systems administration at the virtualization layer on *NIX systems. Establish best practices for observability, availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of distributed systems and applications and perform operational reviews for all engineering teams. You suggest methods to improve our internal processes and team productivity. Oversee and communicate to engineers and leadership the security posture of our