Architect the Cloud Foundation: Partner with peers to refine Azure Landing Zone architectures
Build "Paved Roads" for Cloud Enablement: Collaborate to enhance reusable IaC modules (Bicep, ARM, Terraform) and CI/CD templates (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
Drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices: Define SLOs/SLIs, troubleshooting, production support
Standardize Advanced Platforms: Optimize AKS and related services
Foster Platform Resilience and Scalability: Engaging in reviews, tuning, chaos engineering
Contribute to Team Excellence: Knowledge sharing, Agile sprints, code reviews
Advance DevOps and Automation: Champion CI/CD and release strategies
Innovate with Identity and Emerging Tech: Apply on-prem/cloud IAM expertise for Entra ID, Federation, and Azure B2C

Requirements

8+ years in cloud engineering (5+ in Azure architecture/SRE)
hands-on in production-scale environments
high-availability and root-cause analysis
background in Cloud Development and Architecture
experience managing projects of varying scale
proficient in Azure essentials: Landing Zones, AKS, VMs, Container Instances, Blob Storage, VNet, Entra ID, Policy/Blueprints
design/manage IaaS/PaaS/SaaS (Load Balancers, App Gateways, DNS, Front Door, Storage, Monitor, Security Center, Log Analytics)
IaC/CI/CD mastery (Bicep/ARM/Terraform, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, PowerShell/CLI)
2+ years in automation for CI/CD
SRE core: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability (Azure Monitor/Prometheus/Grafana)
automation (Logic Apps/Functions)
Security: Defender, Sentinel, Key Vault; IAM depth (Entra ID, AD, Azure AD DS/Connect/B2C, MFA)
enterprise account/security models; Azure Policy implementation; Key Vault/encryption
2+ years O365 and Azure AD B2C
2+ years Kubernetes/Docker/Containers
3+ years Azure (Functions, API Mgmt, Blobs, VMs, SQL, Event Grid)
Microservices, .NET Core, PowerApps
large-scale distributed systems, OSes, secure configs
deep Azure/cloud knowledge
complex system problem-solving; container/microservices; requirements-to-architecture translation
collaborative communicator for partnerships/influence; agile/blameless culture; change/incident management
mentor juniors; plan/manage technical implementations.

Benefits

comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
emotional wellbeing through mental health benefits
employee assistance program
paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, cultural observance day)
contributions to healthcare accounts
pension plan
401(k) plan with Company matching
ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills

Azure architectureSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)BicepTerraformAzure DevOpsKubernetesDockerMicroservices

Soft skills

collaborative communicatorknowledge sharingmentoringproject managementproblem-solvingchange managementincident managementAgile methodologyteam excellenceinfluence