At Appex Innovations, we believe in the power of technology to transform healthcare, we believe in being nimble and in continual innovation, we believe that every customer is unique and we believe in listening to our clients. With our deep expertise in the health care domain, solid resource base, constant industry interface and the drive to be the best in the industry, we strive to provide services that re-define health care in the years to come. The secret to our success is Appex Innovations commitment to our people and our work. We thrive on teamwork, intelligence, and innovation. Our bright and energetic employees, hailing from over different parts of the world, share a passion for leading the way to improved healthcare outcomes. Together we work diligently to add value to our clients.

We have an opportunity as an Azure Cloud Engineer with our client: Remote (USA - CST/EST Timezone)

Job Details:

Type: Contractual (Contract-W2)

Experience: 12+ YOE

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex platform and infrastructure issues.
  
• Drive root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions for incidents.
  
• Ensure operational readiness, monitoring, and supportability of cloud platforms.
  
• Lead major platform changes, upgrades, and maintenance activities

• Support complex or high-risk application onboarding and lifecycle events.
  
• Partner with application teams to resolve advanced platform integration challenges
  
• Ensure platform readiness, security posture, and operational requirements for critical workloads

• Ensure consistent application of security, governance, and compliance controls across the platform
  
• Partner with the Security team on reviews, audits, and remediation efforts
  
• Advocate for secure-by-default and least-privilege practices
  

• Design, evolve, and maintain Infrastructure as Code frameworks and automation tooling
  
• Drive standardization, repeatability, and reduction of operational risk through Automation
  
• Review and improve reusable templates, modules, and pipelines

• Mentor and coach Cloud Engineer I and ll team members. Provide operational feedback to Cloud Architecture to improve standards and patterns.
  
• Lead technical execution for migrations, modernization efforts, and platform improvements. Advocate for reliability, cost awareness, security, and engineering best practices

• 7+ years of direct hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Deep hands-on experience operating enterprise cloud platforms.
  
• Proven ability to lead complex cloud engineering initiatives.
  
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and systems-level thinking.
  
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), and NSX networking concepts
  
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation
  
• Al knowledge and conceptual understanding, including how AI services and capabilities apply in enterprise cloud environments.
  
• Ability to mentor engineers and raise overall team capability. Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate problems clearly and present solutions to management, technical colleagues, and other stakeholders.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)