Azure Platform Cloud Service Lead

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  • Job Category:

    IT Architecture

  • Location:

    Houston, Texas Sacramento, California Kennesaw, Georgia Chicago, Illinois Lenexa, Kansas Auburn Hills, Michigan Maple Grove, Minnesota Salem, New Hampshire Plano, Texas Amarillo, Texas East Hartford, Connecticut Birmingham, Alabama Wakefield, Massachusetts

  • Job Type:

    Regular

  • Number of Openings:

    1

Description

Position at Tokio Marine HCC

Azure Platform Service Lead     
Full-Time Position in Houston, TX (Onsite) 
 
 
About TMHCC: 
 
Tokio Marine HCC is a leading specialty insurance group with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Ireland, and other exciting locations. With the strength and stability that comes from being a member of the Tokio Marine Group, and more than forty years of growth, profitability, and stability, we offer important insurance products that most people don’t even know exist. Every policy we write is special, enabling our clients to do amazing things. From insuring the crops that feed us to the rock concerts that entertain us, to rescuing international travelers in trouble, we offer more than 100 classes of specialty insurance. Applying our Mind Over Risk philosophy to writing insurance allows our customers take on opportunity with confidence. That philosophy defines our way of thinking, unites us as a team, and differentiates us from our competitors. We are much more than just an insurance company; we are a good company.
 

About the role:
 
You are responsible for designing, deploying, and managing TMHCC’s public cloud platform for Azure hyper scaler. Enable TMHCC business teams to connect the dots and evolve cloud capabilities over time. Focus on cloud native platform developments and implementations that can support TMHCC expansion. You will Interface extensively with TMHCC business teams and support cloud adoption. 
 

Key Responsibilities: 
 
As the Azure Service Lead, you will:
  • Enablement
    • Regularly interface with business teams, other architects, and Hyper Scaler teams to understand requirements, offering tactical and strategic guidance
    • Capture and share cloud knowledge across stakeholders.
    • SME for Azure hyperscaler.
    • Plan and coordinate platform delivery and dependencies across multiple business team.
  • Security
    • Realize security guardrails per mandated policies and benchmarks.
    • Offer transparency on guardrail compliance for stakeholders.
    • Implement least privileges model for public cloud.
  • Reliability
    • Implement real-time network monitoring and alerting.
    • Offer centralized logging for cloud platform.
  • Cost
    • Ensure that 100% of monthly public cloud bills are reconciled and allocated.
    • Improve transparency.
    • In partnership with business teams, achieve cost savings.
  • Performance Efficiency
    • Offer cloud platform globally in minutes.
    • Promote cloud native serverless architectures.
    • Continually reduce technology debt by upgrading tech stack to supported versions.
  • Operational Excellence
    • Automate the cloud platform and all cloud team-initiated changes/operations as code.
    • Refine operations procedures frequently (e.g., game days).
    • Drive improvement through lessons learned from all operational events and failures.
 

Required Technical Skills:
 
  • Cloud Landing Zone
    • Demonstrated ability designing, building, and automating Azure landing zones.
    • Proven expertise in FinOps practices, including resource tagging, cost allocation, and cloud financial management.
    • Robust understanding of various cloud application architectures.
  • Cloud Security Engineering
    • Implement advanced security and compliance preventive/remediation guardrails/controls (CIS Azure Foundations, Azure Security Center, and Azure Policy).
    • Expertise designing and implementing Azure policies for the comprehensive governance of security, compliance, cost, and operations.
  • Cloud Network Engineering
    • Experience in Azure hub-spoke network architectures
    • VNET Hub /VWAN
    • Virtual Network Gateways for ExpressRoute and VPNs.
    • Experience with DNS zone setup, management, and the configuration of DNS resolvers.
    • In-depth understanding of Azure Networking Services, including:
      • Azure ExpressRoute
      • BGP
      • UDRs
      • SD-WAN
      • Azure Route Services (ARS)
      • Experience in creating/updating Azure Firewall rules via automation.
  • Cloud Automation
    • Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) projects. HashiCorp Terraform Cloud a plus.
    • Experience in Azure DevOps pipelines or equivalent for platform automation. 
    • Full-time development experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, JavaScript, or Java. 
    • Hands-on experience with developing Azure Functions and integrating using REST APIs for Azure platform workflow automation.
 

Additional Certifications and Qualifications:
 
  • Azure Expert level certifications. 
  • HashiCorp Terraform a plus. 
 
  • Relevant and progressive experience with Azure hyperscaler technology.
  • Extensive experience in the general IT industry.
  • Experience in designing and developing integrated solutions involving process, data, and technology.
  • Experienced in creating architectural diagrams.
  • Technical leadership skills.
  • Experience with Lean Agile principles and practices, SDLC processes and deliverables.
  • Must be an exceptional communicator and able to make connections across the organization in multiple locations (virtual and in-person). 
  • Project management, planning and organizational skills. 

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