OpenSearch Engineer III (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.
We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.
Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

Reporting to the Manager, Middleware Product Engineering, the OpenSearch Engineer III is responsible for supporting and advocating the company’s data strategy. The position will architect, configure, deploy and manage the multi-server data platform and its overall health. You will be responsible for ensuring designs follow the Data Governance guidelines and the support the Enterprise data strategy.

The OpenSearch Engineer III will conduct Data Architecture development activities to inventory and analyze the company’s data assets, and research/evaluate/support adoption of Data strategy best practices. This position bridges the gap between business and the technical implementation of the data-based solutions and provides expertise as it relates to articulating business requirements into data-based solutions, decision-making of the implementation and the overall execution of the data strategy. The company relies upon this position to have extensive knowledge of data trends in order to support current and future opportunities.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with OpenSearch
• 8+ years experience overall as a system/software admin
• Experience with AWS (OpenSearch, Cloud networking, VPCs)
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with DevOps tools and automation
• OpenSearch Experience:
  • Experience with beats (file, metric, heartbeat)
  • Index Lifecycle Manager (ILM policies)
  • Managing Cluster Settings
  • Building Queries via DevTools or API (Search & Aggregations)
  • Expert Query tuning
  • Managing index mappings
  • Creating index templates
  • Reindexing and manipulating data (e.g., update by query)
  • Read aliases for indexes
  • Architecting and Managing shards./data nodes (hot and warm architecture)
  • Worked with both time-series & log data
  • Expert Logstash Experience (creating pipelines, configuration)

Other ‘Nice to Have’ Skills

• Python, Ruby or Go experience

What you will be doing:

• Contribute to strategic and tactical projects to drive and define Data and Information Architecture and Strategy
• Design/architect, build, deploy and maintain multiple multi-server data platform applications, including data management (e.g. database, Hadoop cluster, etc.), business intelligence and data integration software and supporting servers. Design and implement best practice guidelines for each application. 24x7x365 Support and support Disaster Recovery activities.
• Participate in the development of enterprise data strategy; including a Big Data strategy
• Analyzing business requirements and functional specifications and being able to derive Data based solutions that support the requirements
• Provide support on use of common enterprise information strategies and promote their use and enhancement by new projects
• Provide architectural consultation/education to the organization. "Sells" the information architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results
• Gain alignment and buy-in of technical architecture and clarifies understanding of standards
• Collaborates with DBAs and infrastructure to facilitate the implementation, maintenance and integration of new data strategies
• Tactical data analysis, data requirements gathering / documentation, data mapping, and data modeling
• Assist with Data Architect with Data Modeling
• Support enterprise data management methodology, associated standards and data strategies

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review 
• Manager resume review 
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager video interview
• Technical video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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