Manager, Cloud Engineering

This job will establish and build the cloud engineering capability at Children's Wisconsin, beginning with Microsoft Azure and extending to AWS as organizational priorities develop. This hands on functional manager will drive the architecture and engineering of cloud foundations, build infrastructure automation, and establish the team and operating practices needed to deliver and support cloud services. The role will create secure, reliable, recoverable, and financially accountable cloud platforms that enable clinical, business, and analytics initiatives.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and validate the initial Azure platform and landing zones; Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of the Azure infrastructure supporting the analytics environment, including integration with Microsoft Fabric; Author and maintain reusable infrastructure modules, deployment pipelines, and configuration automation using Terraform, GitHub, Ansible, or equivalent tools; Develop and execute a phased approach for migrating selected workloads from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms; Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and platform services; Partner with network engineers on private connectivity, routing, DNS, segmentation, and access between CW and Azure; Build monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, patching, and incident response into platform delivery; Develop staffing and skills plans, recruit and onboard engineers, coach staff, and evaluate performance; Implement approved access, encryption, network, logging, and policy controls with Information Security; Develop the platform roadmap, estimate costs, and establish tagging, budgets, reporting, and optimization

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field (or relevant experience); 7+ years of progressively responsible infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering experience, including substantial recent hands-on architecture and engineering of production Azure environments; 5+ years personally taking an enterprise cloud environment from initial design through production operation, with direct responsibility for Azure foundation engineering; 7+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code, reusable modules, automated deployment pipelines, and configuration automation; 5+ years experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers; 5+ years experience building and managing engineering teams, direct use of Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Ansible, AWS engineering, cloud cost management, or support for analytics platforms such as Microsoft Fabric; Ability to integrate cloud services with enterprise networks and identity systems, diagnose complex failures and explain design choices, risks and cost implications; Ability to assume people management responsibilities as staffing grows; Demonstrated ability to personally design, implement, troubleshoot and operate cloud platforms; Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code tooling, GitHub or equivalent Git-based collaboration and pipeline platform, and Ansible or equivalent configuration automation; Strong working knowledge of Azure resource organization, identity and access, networking, compute, storage, policy, monitoring and recovery; Ability to turn ambiguous needs into build plans, document decisions and deliver working services with limited established processes

Nice to have

Healthcare experience; Relevant Azure, AWS, DevOps or automation certifications