Hybrid Opportunity || Sr Infrastructure Architect Healthcare Provider domain || Nashville, TN

Job Title: Sr Infrastructure Architect Healthcare Provider domain

Location: Nashville, TN-Hybrid

Mode of Hire: Contract

Job Description:

Role Overview:

• Define, architect, and lead the end-to-end cloud infrastructure and web application architecture strategy for a healthcare provider organization, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure, secure web platforms, operational stability, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive modernization across cloud infrastructure, web application hosting, DevOps, observability, security operations, and production support models, ensuring high availability, scalability, and continuous service reliability for business-critical healthcare applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect scalable, secure Azure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise web applications and healthcare platforms.
• Define reference architectures for web applications, including UI, API, middleware, and backend integration layers.
• Design and govern secure, scalable hosting models using Azure App Services, VMs, managed databases, and supporting services.
• Establish non-functional architecture standards covering performance, availability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Design and govern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using ARM templates to ensure consistency across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Define high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and service continuity strategies for web and backend workloads.
• Govern CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jenkins, including branching strategies, release governance, and artifact management.
• Embed security, compliance, and quality gates into application delivery pipelines.
• Lead Zero Trust architecture covering web applications, APIs, and infrastructure layers using Azure Active Directory, Conditional Access, UEBA, and device trust models.
• Architect end-to-end observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, synthetic monitoring, and dependency mapping.
• Define service performance baselines, SLIs/SLOs, and proactive alerting for production web applications.
• Enable rapid incident diagnosis and root cause analysis through structured logging, tracing, and telemetry.
• Drive predictive monitoring and proactive remediation using AI-driven insights where applicable.
• Own security operations architecture, including Azure Sentinel (SIEM), SOAR playbooks, and coexistence or migration from legacy SIEM platforms such as Splunk.
• Ensure application and infrastructure patching, vulnerability remediation, and audit readiness aligned with HIPAA and healthcare compliance requirements.
• Lead network and connectivity strategy including Meraki, SD-WAN, secure application access, and telephony integration.
• Manage cloud workloads and platform operations, including VM, App Services, and database administration, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Govern code repository strategy using GitHub and Azure Repos, enforcing standards for branching, versioning, and access control.
• Support M365 collaboration platforms, minimal telephony, and M365 Copilot security workflow alignment.
• Collaborate with application, clinical, and operational teams to ensure infrastructure and web architectures support healthcare workflows and member/provider experience priorities.

Required Technical Skills:

• Microsoft Azure Infrastructure & Web Application Architecture
• Azure App Services, VMs, Managed Databases, HA/DR design
• Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD governance
• ARM Templates, Infrastructure-as-Code
• Azure Active Directory, Conditional Access, Zero Trust Architecture
• Azure Sentinel (SIEM), SOAR, UEBA
• Legacy SIEM exposure (Splunk, etc.)
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Synthetic Monitoring, Dependency Mapping
• Security Monitoring, Patch & Vulnerability Management
• VM, Database, and App Services Operations
• Meraki, Network Governance, Telephony Integration
• Tooling exposure: Netskope, Deepwatch, Proofpoint, Intune, Jamf
• Experience with Azure Graph or data graph concepts
• AI-driven observability and predictive incident resolution (AIOps)

Domain Experience:

• Experience working with Healthcare Provider or Payer organizations.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA, PHI, PII protection frameworks, access audits, and regulatory compliance.
• Familiarity with clinical, claims, enrollment, eligibility, or member-facing web platforms (good to have).

Soft Skills

• Ability to define integrated infrastructure and web application architecture roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder management across application, security, compliance, and leadership teams.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, drive governance, and lead enterprise-scale technical decisions.