The Cloud Infrastructure Architect provides technical leadership responsible for designing, implementing, and automating the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational environment of WHDH's data platform. This role ensures the secure, scalable, and highly available integration of infrastructure components supporting complex clinical and research data assets across a cloud-based environment. The position automates environments for advanced analytics, machine learning, and federated research capabilities while strictly maintaining compliance with HIPAA and institutional data security standards.

Working closely with data solutions architects, data engineers, AI specialists, and security leaders, the Cloud Infrastructure Architect will translate architectural and operational requirements into scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions and robust CI/CD practices that support WHDH's long-term platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Orchestration

• Design and implement the scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure framework supporting WHDH's data platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Develop and maintain automated, elastic environments capable of ingesting, harmonizing, storing, and delivering massive structured and unstructured health datasets.
• Optimize containerized environments and orchestration layers (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) to seamlessly support complex research workflows and distributed computing.
• Architect high-performance computing environments and automated provisioning pipelines tailored for AI, machine learning, and large-scale data analysis.

Deployment Pipelines and Continuous Integration (CI/CD)

• Build and manage secure, automated CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workflows, application code, and infrastructure deployments.
• Enable reliable, continuous deployment methodologies that ensure zero-downtime updates and seamless system testing across health systems and research institutions.
• Implement operational monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) to proactively ensure platform reliability, uptime, and performance.

DevSecOps and Compliance Automation

• Bake strict security controls into the automated provisioning process, ensuring end-to-end alignment with HIPAA, institutional policies, and research data security standards.
• Establish best practices for DevSecOps, including automated vulnerability scanning, secret management, and compliance-as-code.

Design and maintain immutable infrastructure patterns that enforce granular access control, precise audit logging, and strict data governance across the WHDH ecosystem.

It is anticipated that this position will be remote and requires work be performed at an offsite, non-campus work location. The selected candidate must reside within the State of Wisconsin or move to the State within a reasonable time frame from the start date of the position.