Manager, Cloud Engineering
Children's Wisconsin · Milwaukee
At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.
Children’s Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.
We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.
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**This is a full time, salaried, hybrid position, based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Job Summary
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.
Essential Functions
- Cloud architecture and foundation build. Designs, builds, and validates the initial Azure platform and landing zones. Establishes subscription organization, identity integration, access controls, networking, policy, logging, and resource standards with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Infrastructure. Documents design decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs and implements approved designs through working code.
- Analytics platform enablement. Leads the architecture and hands on implementation of the Azure infrastructure and supporting services needed for CW’s analytics environment, including integration with Microsoft Fabric. Partners with Analytics, Network Engineering, and Information Security to establish private connectivity, identity and access integration, DNS, monitoring, deployment automation, and cost controls. Establishes clear support responsibilities and production readiness for development, test, and production environments.
- Automation and infrastructure as code. Authors and maintains reusable infrastructure modules, deployment pipelines, and configuration automation using Terraform, GitHub, Ansible, or equivalent tools. Establishes version control, pull request review, automated validation, environment promotion, infrastructure state management, and secure handling of secrets. Creates repeatable provisioning and change processes that reduce manual configuration and drift.
- Data center migration. Develops and executes a phased approach for moving selected workloads from on premises data centers to cloud platforms after the initial analytics foundation is established. Assesses workload dependencies, technical suitability, operating costs, security, and recovery requirements with infrastructure and application owners. Leads migration engineering, testing, cutover, rollback planning, and operational transition, including retirement of replaced infrastructure when appropriate.
- Hands on engineering and delivery. Builds, configures, tests, and troubleshoots cloud infrastructure and platform services. Takes work from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, and operational readiness. Establishes practical engineering patterns and onboarding methods that other teams can use. Remains directly involved in complex engineering and code review as the team grows.
- Hybrid connectivity and workload enablement. Partners with network engineers on private connectivity, routing, DNS, segmentation, and access between CW and Azure. Works with application, analytics, and security teams to establish platform requirements, dependencies, and support boundaries. Engineers approved foundations for workload deployment and migration, including connectivity for analytics and data services.
- Operational readiness. Builds monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, patching, and incident response into platform delivery. Defines service ownership, support procedures, escalation paths, and coverage with partner teams before production use. Tests restoration and recovery, resolves platform incidents, and addresses recurring failures through engineering improvements.
- Team formation and people leadership. Develops staffing and skills plans and recruits and onboards engineers as positions are approved. Establishes expectations, coaches staff, evaluates performance, and addresses development needs. Builds shared ownership, peer review, and accountability for production outcomes.
- Security and governance. Implements approved access, encryption, network, logging, and policy controls with Information Security. Establishes secure deployment defaults, maintains audit evidence, and remediates findings. Aligns cloud delivery with enterprise ITSM and architecture standards.
- Planning and financial accountability. Develops the platform roadmap and prioritizes work against demand, risk, and capacity. Estimates implementation and consumption costs; establishes tagging, budgets, reporting, and optimization. Recommends staffing and investments and manages assigned spending and vendor deliverables within delegated authority.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field required
- or relevant experience
Experience
- 7+ years of progressively responsible infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering experience, including substantial recent hands on architecture and engineering of production Azure environments. required
- 5+ years prior experience personally taking an enterprise cloud environment from initial design through production operation, with direct responsibility for Azure foundation engineering. Experience must include establishing identity and access integration, network connectivity, governance controls, automated provisioning, monitoring, and operational support where those foundations were not already mature. required
- 7+ years substantial hands on experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code, reusable modules, automated deployment pipelines, and configuration automation. Experience must include authoring and troubleshooting code, version control, review, testing, secure credential handling, and controlled deployment to production. required
- 5+ years experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers. required
- 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. required
- Healthcare experience preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 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 and collaborate across architecture, security, operations and workload teams
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, implement, troubleshoot and operate cloud platforms
- Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code tooling GitHub or an 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.
- Relevant Azure, AWS, DevOps or automation certifications are preferred
Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.
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