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.