Manager, Cloud Engineering

Children's Wisconsin•Milwaukee, WI

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Children’s Wisconsin is seeking a hands-on functional manager to establish and build its cloud engineering capability, beginning with Microsoft Azure and expanding to AWS as organizational priorities develop. The manager will architect and engineer cloud foundations, build infrastructure automation, and establish the team and operating practices needed to deliver and support cloud services. The goal is to provide secure, reliable, recoverable, and financially accountable cloud platforms for clinical, business, and analytics initiatives. This role will design and implement Azure foundations and landing zones, enable the organization’s analytics environment—including Microsoft Fabric—and develop a phased approach to migrating selected workloads from on-premises data centers. The manager will remain directly involved in engineering and code review while building the team, establishing production operations, and partnering with architecture, information security, infrastructure, networking, analytics, and application teams. The position is full-time, salaried, and hybrid, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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, including identity and access integration, network connectivity, governance controls, automated provisioning, monitoring, and operational support where those foundations were not already mature.
7+ years of substantial hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code, reusable modules, automated deployment pipelines, and configuration automation, including authoring and troubleshooting code, version control, review, testing, secure credential handling, and controlled production deployment.
5+ years of experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers.
5+ years of 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 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design, build, and validate the initial Azure platform and landing zones, including subscriptions, identity integration, access controls, networking, policies, logging, and resource standards.
Document cloud design decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs, and implement approved designs through working code in partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Infrastructure.
Lead architecture and implementation of Azure infrastructure and supporting services for the analytics environment, including integration with Microsoft Fabric.
Partner with Analytics, Network Engineering, and Information Security to establish private connectivity, identity and access integration, DNS, monitoring, deployment automation, cost controls, support responsibilities, and production readiness for development, test, and production environments.
Author and maintain reusable infrastructure modules, deployment pipelines, and configuration automation using Terraform, GitHub, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
Establish version control, pull request review, automated validation, environment promotion, infrastructure state management, and secure secrets handling.
Create repeatable provisioning and change processes that reduce manual configuration and drift.
Develop and execute a phased approach to moving selected workloads from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms after the initial analytics foundation is established.
Assess workload dependencies, technical suitability, operating costs, security, and recovery requirements with infrastructure and application owners.
Lead migration engineering, testing, cutover, rollback planning, operational transition, and retirement of replaced infrastructure when appropriate.
Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and platform services; take work from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, and operational readiness.
Establish practical engineering patterns and onboarding methods, and remain involved in complex engineering and code review as the team grows.
Partner with network engineers on private connectivity, routing, DNS, segmentation, and access between Children’s Wisconsin and Azure.
Work with application, analytics, and security teams to establish platform requirements, dependencies, support boundaries, and approved foundations for workload deployment and migration.
Build monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, patching, and incident response into platform delivery.
Define service ownership, support procedures, escalation paths, and coverage with partner teams before production use; test restoration and recovery, resolve platform incidents, and address recurring failures through engineering improvements.
Develop staffing and skills plans; recruit and onboard engineers as positions are approved; set expectations, coach staff, evaluate performance, and address development needs.
Build shared ownership, peer review, and accountability for production outcomes.
Implement approved access, encryption, network, logging, and policy controls with Information Security; establish secure deployment defaults, maintain audit evidence, remediate findings, and align cloud delivery with enterprise ITSM and architecture standards.
Develop the platform roadmap and prioritize work against demand, risk, and capacity.
Estimate implementation and consumption costs; establish tagging, budgets, reporting, and optimization; recommend staffing and investments; and manage assigned spending and vendor deliverables within delegated authority.