Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Azure

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Azure

Remote – U.S. | Must Work Mountain Time Hours

6-Month Contract-to-Hire

Contract Rate: $85/hour W-2 + Health Benefit Options

Conversion Salary: $160,000–$170,000

Epic Placements is hiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support a high-priority, AI-enabled healthcare technology initiative for a leading health system.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who knows how to build, operate, secure, and troubleshoot Azure infrastructure in production . You'll join an active build as the team prepares a new platform for production and become a key owner of the cloud infrastructure supporting it.

The environment is fast-moving and highly collaborative. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, taking ownership, and building—not simply maintaining an established environment.

This position is remote within the United States , but candidates must be willing and able to consistently work Mountain Time Zone business hours .

What You'll Do

• Build, maintain, and support production infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
• Own Azure networking, identity/access, compute, monitoring, and related cloud services
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform
• Help prepare a new cloud environment for production launch
• Monitor application and infrastructure health, uptime, capacity, and performance
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response
• Implement cloud security best practices, including least-privilege access, network rules, service accounts, and secrets management
• Support integrations between Snowflake and Azure workloads
• Monitor cloud utilization and identify opportunities for cost optimization
• Support production AI/ML and data-intensive workloads
• Work within a ticket-driven operational support environment
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, data teams, and business/clinical stakeholders
• Help solve infrastructure problems in an environment where architecture and priorities are still evolving

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure in production
• Experience with Azure networking, identity/access management, compute, and monitoring
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Experience in cloud operations, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or production infrastructure
• Production troubleshooting and incident-response experience
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals
• Experience supporting highly available, production-critical environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• High degree of ownership and comfort operating independently
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly
• Must be located in the U.S. and able to consistently work Mountain Time Zone hours

Strongly Preferred

• Experience integrating Snowflake with Azure
• Healthcare technology or health-system experience
• Experience working with HIPAA-regulated or other sensitive data
• Epic, EHR/EMR, FHIR, or HL7v2 exposure
• Experience supporting AI/ML or data-science workloads in production
• CI/CD experience
• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tooling
• Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience helping build infrastructure or platforms 0→1
• Experience taking new environments from development into production

The Environment

This is a great fit for an engineer who likes being close to the build.

You'll be joining a team developing a new AI-enabled platform that will work with real-time clinical and operational data. Rather than inheriting a mature environment with every process already defined, you'll have the opportunity to help establish how the production infrastructure should operate.

We're looking for someone who can bring strong cloud engineering fundamentals while remaining pragmatic, curious, and comfortable figuring things out alongside the team.

Compensation & Employment

This position will begin as a 6-month W-2 contract through Epic Placements with the intention of converting to a permanent position with the client.

Contract: $85/hour W-2

Benefits: Health benefit options available during the contract period

Permanent Conversion Salary: $160,000–$170,000

The position is remote within the United States; however, consistent availability during Mountain Time Zone business hours is required .

About Epic Placements

Epic Placements is a Colorado-based recruiting and staffing firm focused on connecting great people with meaningful opportunities across technology, healthcare IT, finance, and professional services.

Epic Placements is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics. Epic Placements participates in E-Verify for all contract and contract-to-hire positions.