Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Description
ο»ΏWho We Are - Motivated by Purpose. Powered by Clinical Expertise.
Founded in 1983, weβre a clinically-driven, tech-enabled utilization management company offering expert clinical reviews, regulatory guidance, and actionable insights to healthcare organizations.
Excellence starts with our people.
WE OFFER
- A competitive compensation package.
- Benefits include healthcare, vision, and dental insurance, a generous 401 (k) match, paid vacation, personal time, and holidays.
- Growth and training opportunities.
- An award-winning remote work environment
POSITION OVERVIEW
Our Principal Cloud Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, governing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and platforms across the organization.
In this role, you will serve as the organization's senior technical authority for cloud architecture and infrastructure, bringing extensive expertise to establish engineering standards and governance, and to lead complex cloud initiatives from design through delivery.
Beyond technical leadership, you will mentor and guide the Systems Administration and Information Security teams, ensuring knowledge is shared through documentation, standards, and coaching. You will translate complex technical concepts into clear business and operational decisions, provide leadership during critical production events, and set the benchmark for engineering excellence.
Roles:
- Serve as the highest-level technical authority and subject matter expert for all Azure cloud infrastructure and architecture
- Define cloud engineering standards, architectural patterns, and governance practices that the organization adopts and follows
- Own and lead cloud infrastructure projects end-to-end β from design and planning through execution, delivery, and post-deployment operations
- Support the Manager of IT & IS on cloud strategy, architecture roadmap, and platform investment decisions
- Mentor and develop the Systems Administration and Information Security teams β building organizational cloud competency through hands-on guidance, deliberate coaching, and knowledge transfer
- Participate in evaluating and onboarding new cloud engineering talent as the team grows
- Collaborate with Development teams to design and deliver application infrastructure on Azure
- Provide Tier 2/3 escalation support to the IT Help Desk for complex infrastructure and cloud issues
- Partner with the Information Security team to implement and evidence compliance controls for HITRUST 11.3r2 and SOC2
Major Responsibilities or Assigned Duties:
- Architect, deploy, and manage a secure Azure cloud environment including hub-spoke network topology, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, API Management, and Private Endpoints
- Define and enforce cloud governance standards including subscription management, Azure Policy, resource organization, tagging taxonomy, and cost management across all environments
- Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Azure Bicep) practices including module structure, state management, review workflow, and environment promotion β ensuring all infrastructure changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and auditable with no undocumented manual changes in production
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments with automated security scanning, testing, and progressive delivery
- Establish change management and release governance processes ensuring all infrastructure changes are reviewable, approved, and auditable in a regulated healthcare environment β without becoming a bottleneck
- Lead cloud migration projects β assess workloads, develop migration strategies, execute cutovers, validate post-migration health, and decommission legacy infrastructure
- Design and deliver Azure infrastructure for new application onboarding; create reusable patterns and templates the team follows for future workload