Cloud Engineering Lead – Azure Platform & Automation

CHS Children's Hospital and Health System, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Wisconsin is building a cloud engineering capability. This hands-on manager will lead Azure infrastructure foundations, automation, and migration efforts, partnering with security, analytics, and network teams. The role emphasizes scalable, secure cloud platforms and cost-conscious operations.

With 7+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering and strong Azure/DevOps expertise, you will guide architecture decisions, code reviews, and team growth for enterprise cloud delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering experience with hands-on Azure.
• 5+ years taking an enterprise cloud from design to production with Azure foundations.
• 5+ years building infrastructure as code, reusable modules, and automated pipelines.
• Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Establish and grow the cloud engineering capability focused on Azure with potential AWS support.
• Design, build, and validate the Azure platform and landing zones.
• Lead automation, IaC, and deployment pipelines; ensure security and governance.
• Manage migration of workloads from on-premises to cloud platforms with phased plans.
• Lead a hands-on engineering team, recruit and onboard staff as positions open.
• Ensure production readiness, cost controls, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Azure

Leadership

Cloud cost management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT / CS / Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Azure

AWS

Job description

Children's Wisconsin is building a cloud engineering capability. This hands-on manager will lead Azure infrastructure foundations, automation, and migration efforts, partnering with security, analytics, and network teams. The role emphasizes scalable, secure cloud platforms and cost-conscious operations.

With 7+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering and strong Azure/DevOps expertise, you will guide architecture decisions, code reviews, and team growth for enterprise cloud delivery.