Job Description

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.

Responsibilities:
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
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.