Health Research, Inc. effectively evaluates, solicits, and administers external sponsored program funding to financially support projects, programs, and research for the New York State Department of Health.
In this capacity, Health Research, Inc. desires to execute and enter into a consultant agreement for the services of a Cloud Engineer Level 3 for the period 03/03/2025 – 07/31/2025. All contracts and billing will be executed through Health Research, Inc. directly. Should your company be interested in pursuing this opportunity, please read further.
***The consultant must be willing to report to work onsite in Albany NY. Do not submit candidates who require remote work or who will not report onsite as needed. You must vet candidates for this qualification and their willingness to move promptly if not within commuting distance. This is non-negotiable.****
Compensation Details:
Not to exceed $102/hour
Scope of Work: The contractor will design and support the cloud architecture and technologies to host and support for NYS Healthcare Acquired Infection Outbreak Management System. The contractor will also ensure that systems have a higher availability and capacity for user access to meet pandemic needs as well as build, increase and maintain our cloud footprint.
Mandatory Qualifications:
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- This position requires at least a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent from an accredited institution. A copy of the degree must be submitted with the Candidate Proposal Response.
- 6 year’s experience in designing/architecting, implementing, testing, and deployment of Data Pipelines.
- 6 year’s experience with managing data processing workloads (like Python, SAS, SQL, etc).
- 6 year’s experience with building and managing data platforms (like Airflow, SAS Viya, Tableau)
- Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications
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- 6 year’s experience with building and managing data and application workloads in a cloud hybrid environment.
- 6 year’s experience with managing cloud data – (i.e. Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, processing/compute)
- 6 year’s experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure such as security, data migration, autoscaling, process monitoring.
- 6 year’s experience with managing cloud native data pipelines.
- 6 year’s experience with cloud security such as encryption at rest and In-transit.
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Instructions to apply:
Please review the attached requirements and for the one candidate you wish to propose for this position, submit the resume, copy of candidate Identification (i.e. Driver’s License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable) and Contractor Proposal Response to doh.sm.bhnsmadmin@health.ny.gov by the deadline of 1/24/2025, 4:00PM. Late submissions will not be considered. Candidates must be willing to work onsite. Please note that the Consultant Proposal Response must also include your Federal ID # and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) #. Your SAM.gov profile must also be up to date.
Candidates will be scored on methodology that considers both cost and technical qualifications.
It is anticipated that interviews for the project will be scheduled for the week of January 27 with expected work to commence no later than March 03, 2025.
The consultant will be expected to work 40 hours per week at our location at Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12210.
For any questions, please contact us at doh.sm.bhnsmadmin@health.ny.gov
HRI IT Contractor Response Form_R3_Cloud Engineer Level 3_ELC-ED (DOCX)