Associate Manager, Cloud Engineering

Beghou brings over three decades of experience helping life sciences companies optimize their commercialization through strategic insight, advanced analytics, and technology. From developing go-to-market strategies and building foundational data analytics infrastructures to leveraging artificial intelligence to improve customer insights and engagement, Beghou helps life sciences companies maximize performance across their portfolios. Beghou also deploys proprietary and third‑party technology solutions to help companies forecast performance, design territories, manage customer data, organize, and report on medical and commercial data, and more.

Headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, we have 10 global offices.

Our mission is to bring together analytical minds and innovative technology to help life sciences companies navigate the complexity of health care and improve patient outcomes.

Beghou Consulting is seeking an Associate Manager, Cloud Engineering to lead the design, governance, and operation of our internal cloud platforms that power customer‑facing data and analytics solutions. This is a hybrid role combining hands‑on engineering with strategic leadership, responsible for ensuring Beghou’s multi‑cloud infrastructure — across AWS and Azure — is secure, scalable, and operationally excellent.

The successful candidate will define technical direction, lead a team of cloud engineers, and collaborate with architecture, security, and product delivery teams to maintain the infrastructure that supports our clients’ most critical systems.

• Platform Strategy & Architecture
• Develop and maintain the strategic roadmap for Beghou’s internal cloud environments that support client‑facing applications, APIs, and analytics workloads.
• Architect and evolve secure, scalable, and resilient multi‑cloud infrastructure leveraging AWS and Azure native services.
• Establish platform governance, operational standards, and automation frameworks for consistent, compliant, and cost‑effective cloud operations.
• Partner with Information Security, Data Engineering, and IT teams to align infrastructure architecture with compliance (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA) and data protection policies. Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve platform performance, reliability, and developer efficiency.
• Leadership & Team Management
• Manage and mentor a team of Cloud Engineers and Dev Ops professionals, ensuring high‑quality delivery and adherence to best practices. Provide technical leadership for cloud operations, automation, and security initiatives.
• Balance priorities across enhancement projects, security hardening, and ongoing operational support.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Operations & Security Oversight
• Oversee cloud operations supporting production and client environments, ensuring uptime, observability, and reliability.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks for proactive risk management.
• Enforce identity and access governance, encryption, and network security controls across AWS and Azure.
• Partner with the Security and Compliance teams to ensure audit readiness and proper control documentation.
• Lead cost management, usage reporting, and resource optimization efforts across platforms.
• Hands‑On Technical Contribution
• Contribute directly to design and deployment of cloud infrastructure, automation pipelines, and IaC frameworks using Azure Dev Ops and Terraform.
• Provide escalation support and lead root cause analyses for high‑impact platform incidents.
• Participate in infrastructure reviews and ensure implementation consistency across global environments.

• 8–12 years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with 3–5 years in leadership, architecture, or platform management roles.
• Proven experience managing AWS and Azure environments hosting customer‑facing applications or data services.
• Deep understanding of networking, identity, security, and automation concepts in multi‑cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and security tools, including:
  • AWS: VPC, EKS/ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Cloud…