Staff Cloud Engineer at HCA Healthcare
Nashville, TN
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Jul 14, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering role focused on migrating existing healthcare interfaces (PA Open Connect) to Google Cloud Platform and building containerized, cloud-native solutions. Day-to-day work involves infrastructure-as-code development, CI/CD pipeline automation, healthcare API integration (HL7, FHIR), and configuration management. Suited to experienced engineers with hands-on GCP expertise, Kubernetes, Terraform, and familiarity with healthcare data standards.
Senior level · 7+ years · Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9 people in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2–15
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $129,394 (middle half $101,208–$143,252).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title is 'Staff Cloud Engineer' but the role's actual scope — migrating interfaces, building containerized services, working within a project team, and taking direction from managers and consulting engineers — aligns more with a Senior individual contributor than a true Staff-level org-wide technical authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The role sits between software development (building containerized cloud solutions, CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts) and infrastructure/systems engineering (cloud resource provisioning, workload migration, configuration management). 15-1252 Software Developers was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes writing and shipping code; 15-1244 is the runner-up given the infrastructure-as-code and systems engineering framing.
Location is inferred as Nashville, TN (HCA Healthcare's corporate headquarters); no explicit city is stated in the posting.
A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems is listed as 'Preferred' and the experience requirement explicitly allows 'equivalent combination of education and/or experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The Google Cloud Engineer certification is listed as 'Required' under Licenses/Certifications. The Google Cloud Architect and Terraform Associate certifications are listed as 'Preferred' in the same section.
Terraform appears both as a preferred certification (Terraform Associate) and implicitly in the infrastructure-as-code context; it is captured as a preferred skill reflecting the certification's preferred status.
cURL is mentioned in the required skills list alongside Python and Kubernetes but is a ubiquitous command-line utility rather than a named technology platform, so it was omitted from the structured skills list.
Azure is listed as an alternative to GCP in the 'Strong Knowledge in one or more cloud domains- GCP, Azure' requirement, captured via the alternatives field on the GCP skill.
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