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# Senior Systems Development Engineer L4 at Inovalon

- **Company:** Inovalon
- **Location:** Bowie, MD
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://www.inovalon.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=7819626003

## Job description

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.

Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare’s greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Overview:   The Senior Systems Development Engineer L4 will focus on defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for Inovalon’s commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake. This role requires good understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, networking, and security. This position will split time between developing commercial cloud governance and standards, defining and implementing platform-level features, developing infrastructure as code, and supporting application engineering teams with application design and implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assumes responsibility for defining, implementing, and enforcing governance and standards for commercial cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake.
- Applies commercial cloud best practices to design, develop, and implement AWS, Azure, and GCP platform-level features.
- Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services.
- Collaborate with application engineering teams to create, monitor, and troubleshoot system infrastructure.
- Be an expert in service reliability, sustainability, and efficiency. Collaborate with product, application engineering, and security teams to ensure solutions realize non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, maintainability, and cost-efficiency.
- In depth knowledge of infrastructure deployment including knowledge of installation, configuration, troubleshooting of Servers, Storage, and Networking.
- Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage cloud-based infrastructure to drive automation, improvement, and performance.
- Windows and/or Linux installation and configuration knowhow and automation skills.
- Strong understanding about AD(Active Directory) , GPO (Group Policy Object), RDS(Remote Desktop Service)
- Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies

Job Requirements:

- Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineer.
- Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, services, and infrastructure operations of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or Snowflake.
- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Terraform, or similar.
- Extensive scripting experience with Terraform, Linux Shell, PowerShell, Python, or others.

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

- Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
- Subject to inside environmental conditions.
- Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g. H-1B, TN, or E-3). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a condition of employment. (This is only applicable for US-based positions)

If you don’t meet every qualification listed but are excited about our mission and the work described, we encourage you to apply.  Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.

By embracing inclusion, we enhance our work environment and drive business success. Inovalon strives to provide equal opportunities to the communities where we operate and to our clients and everyone whom we serve. We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting. We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.

Inovalon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.

To review the legal requirements, including all labor law posters, please visit this [link](https://postings.govdocs.com/#/8sZXnFNWk3KYs3F)

To review the California Consumer Privacy Statement: Disclosures for California Residents, please visit this [link](https://www.inovalon.com/privacy-policy/)

## About Inovalon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inovalon is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions and data analytics that empower healthcare organizations to improve clinical outcomes and economics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: Bowie, Maryland, USA
- **Founded**: 2000 (approximately 25 years as of 2025)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare data analytics and cloud-based software
- **Target customers**: B2B – health plans (payers), providers, pharmacies, and life sciences companies (including 15 of the top 15 U.S. health plans and 25 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies)
- **Mission or purpose**: To empower data-driven healthcare by bringing together national-scale connectivity, real-time primary source data access, and advanced analytics to improve patient outcomes and healthcare economics.

## Products & Services
- **Inovalon ONE Platform**: A sophisticated cloud-based platform that integrates data, analytics, and workflow solutions for quality improvement, risk adjustment, pharmacy operations, revenue cycle management, and health economics outcomes research.
- **Converged Quality**: Quality measure analytics and predictive insights to drive timely interventions.
- **DataStream**: Real-time primary source data access for connectivity across payer, provider, pharmacy, and life sciences settings.
- **Claims Management Pro**: Streamlined claims processing with all-payer visibility and appeals management.
- **Pharmacy Solutions**: Tools to decrease time-to-fill, improve adherence risk predictions, and support specialty pharmacy operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (company was taken private in 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Over 50,000 active, licensed customers; data informed by 99 billion medical events, 1.1 million physicians, 733,000 clinical settings, and 458 million unique lives.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include 15 of the top 15 U.S. health plans, 25 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies, and 13 of the top 15 U.S. specialty pharmacies.
- **Growth Signals**: Employee count exceeds 4,000; third consecutive year of Great Place To Work® certification; ongoing expansion of platform capabilities and customer base across the healthcare continuum.

## Competitive Advantages
- **National-scale connectivity** with real-time primary source data access from a vast network of physicians, clinical settings, and health plans.
- **Advanced analytics and machine learning** embedded into workflow solutions for quality, risk, pharmacy, and revenue cycle management.
- **Deep domain expertise** across payer, provider, pharmacy, and life sciences, enabling tailored, integrated solutions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Enhancing the Inovalon ONE Platform to drive improved clinical outcomes and cost efficiencies; expanding data reach and analytic capabilities; strengthening employee engagement and culture through direct feedback initiatives.
- **Direction for growth**: Continued investment in data-driven innovations, partnerships with top healthcare organizations, and scaling the platform to support the entire care continuum.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Certified as a Great Place To Work® for three consecutive years (2023–2025); strong focus on employee engagement, transparency, and inclusion through employee networks (VETS, LGBTQ+ Alliance, Women in Technology).
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Multiple office locations (Bowie, MD; Canonsburg, PA; Tampa, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Hyderabad and Gurugram, India). Roles likely require a hybrid or in-office presence; specific policies vary by position.
- **Notable perks and benefits**: Competitive medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) with employer match, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, professional development reimbursement, paid time off, and a 10-week paid summer internship program.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on data science, machine learning, and cloud technology; opportunities to work on large-scale healthcare data systems that impact millions of lives.

## Sources
1. [inovalon.com](https://www.inovalon.com/) – Company homepage and product overview
2. [inovalon.com/our-company](https://www.inovalon.com/our-company/) – About page, locations, employee count
3. [inovalon.com/careers](https://www.inovalon.com/careers/) – Careers page, benefits, employee networks, internships
4. [inovalon.com/news](https://www.inovalon.com/news/inovalon-earns-2025-great-place-to-work-certification-for-third-consecutive-year/) – Great Place To Work certification announcement
5. [linkedin.com/company/inovalon](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inovalon) – LinkedIn company page

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