Remote Senior Cloud Engineer

About this role

Description:

We are looking for the right long-term fit. This position is initially structured as a 6-month contract engagement with the possibility of conversion to a full-time role based on performance and business need. The Senior Cloud Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of CloseKnit’s Azure cloud platform.

Reporting to the VP of Systems Engineering, this role helps define cloud architecture standards, ensures the platform scales securely and reliably, and supports the organization’s healthcare compliance and availability requirements. This remote role shares cloud architecture decisions and ensures the platform scales securely while meeting healthcare reliability, availability, and compliance expectations. It requires deep expertise across cloud architecture, DevOps, and operations, and plays a key role in shaping cloud strategy aligned with business and clinical needs.

The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates closely with engineering, security, and leadership teams. They also mentor other engineers and drive continuous improvement across the cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure:

• Design, implement, and manage complex Azure cloud infrastructure, including networking, application hosting, integration patterns, data services, and secrets management.
• Define and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures aligned with best practices and organizational standards.

Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD:

• Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Azure CLI, PowerShell), ensuring repeatability, security, and maintainability.
• Design and maintain GitHub Actions workflows to support CI/CD for both infrastructure and application deployments.

Reliability, Performance & Operations:

• Optimize system performance, availability, and reliability through monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and incident ...