JOB SUMMARY:

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) is embarking on an exciting mission of establishing state of the art computational, data and informatics infrastructure for supporting cutting edge biomedical research and innovation to care. We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Informatics team and help us design, develop, and deploy complex research computing and computational science workflows that support researchers.
The Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Initiative at UW-Madison is dedicated to addressing significant, complex challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration, strategic faculty hiring, and research infrastructure enhancement. The initiative focuses on areas such as AI, Earth sciences, and human-centered technology to drive groundbreaking discovery and education.
The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based infrastructure to support the clinical research data services offered through SMPH as part of the RISE Initiative. This role involves working with a team of engineers and researchers to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient cloud solutions for data-intensive and computational workloads.

EDUCATION:

Preferred
Bachelor’s Degree

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience with public cloud computing (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Minimum of 2 years professional experience, and proficiency, in automation, configuration management, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipelines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with Git version control system

Preferred:

• Experience with Azure AI and Machine Learning services
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems, scripting languages (e.g., Batch, Python)
• Experience with research and healthcare environment
• Experience with Agile or Scrum methodology and tools
• Experience with regulatory or security regulations, controls and benchmarks like HIPAA, NIST 800-53 and CIS

Strong communication and people skills are required. The ideal candidate is curious, self-motivated, and able to work with minimal supervision. The selected candidate must be committed to providing quality customer service and uphold SMPH core values of respect, integrity, teamwork, excellence, leadership, inclusivity, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and communication.

Designs, integrates, delivers, and provides day-to-day maintenance to ensure subsystems and infrastructure function together and business needs are met. Provides operational support of applications or services, development operations (DevOps), through automation an/or infrastructure as code. Provides day-to-day maintenance and long-term assistance to ensure subsystems and infrastructure function together and business needs are met.

• 10% Communicates and coordinates with staff related to the project and/or system
• 40% Develops, programs, and/or deploys automation workflows for deployment, configuration, and/or monitoring of systems/services
• 10% Manages and maintains automation tools and infrastructure, including security configurations
• 30% Performs integration, migration, configuration, and security of existing applications and services into automated infrastructures
• 10% Implements and supports security controls to ensure the cloud resources protect data following HIPAA and relevant NIST guidance