Senior Cloud Engineer

? Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer (Azure) | Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX | W2 Contract-to-Hire

We're hiring a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer for a national healthcare performance-improvement organization that manages billions in supply chain and pharmaceutical spend for hospitals across the U.S.

This is a hands-on role that bridges architecture and implementation -- you'll build prototypes, reference implementations, and reusable cloud patterns that other engineering teams adopt, using modern AI-assisted development tools to move fast.

? Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX (Hybrid -- onsite Tue/Wed/Thu)
? Type: W2 Contract-to-Hire
? Pay: $70-$80/H

What you'll do:

• Turn architectural direction into working prototypes and reusable patterns

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across app, infra, and data workloads

• Automate infrastructure with IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, or similar)

• Support containerized workloads with Docker & Kubernetes

• Use AI-assisted dev tools to accelerate coding, testing, and documentation

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing

• Mentor engineers on cloud-native development and delivery automation

What you bring:

• 5+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering

• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience (or major cloud, Azure-first ready)

• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)

• IaC experience (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, CloudFormation)

• Strong Docker, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, and secrets management skills

• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, PowerShell, or Bash

• Real-world experience with AI-assisted development tools

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have: OpenTelemetry/distributed tracing, GitOps, Databricks, healthcare/supply chain/regulated industry background, Azure/K8s certifications.

All candidates complete a brief video screen before submission.

Interested? Apply now or reach out directly to learn more.

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