Azure Cloud Engineer II

Guided by our core values and commitment to your success, we provide health, financial and lifestyle benefits to ensure a best-in-class employee experience. Some of our offerings include :

Highly competitive total rewards package, including comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits as well as a 401(k) plan that both the employee and employer contribute

Annual incentive bonus plan based on company achievement of goals

Time away from work including paid holidays, paid time off and volunteer time off

Professional development courses, mentorship opportunities, and tuition reimbursement program

Paid parental leave and adoption leave with adoption financial assistance

Employee discount program

Job Description Summary :

The Azure Cloud Engineer is a member of a team delivering cloud capabilities to the Company's owners, customers, and partners within the organization. Under broad supervision, the Cloud Engineer implements, optimize, and maintain on-prem and cloud-based solutions. You will be responsible for deploying and debugging cloud infrastructure, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure. In addition, the Cloud Engineer will work with Cloud Architecture to build and support Cloud implementations that meet the Company's standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability. The candidate must reside in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Job Description

Collaborating with engineering, information security, and development teams to implement and maintain optimal cloud solutions.

Support and maintain existing cloud implementations, modifying and improving as needed.

Follow best practices and new cloud technologies and initiatives

Collaborating with Cloud architect to design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems

Implements strategic road maps for Private / Public Cloud infrastructure.

Implements and maintains the Private / Public Cloud infrastructure through established IT policies and procedures and ITIL framework for on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

Experience Optimizing Cloud infrastructure utilizing cloud elasticity.

Experience configuring / maintaining cloud cost management.

Maintains orchestration and automation of cloud enablement tools.

Participates in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities.

Participates in On-Call rotation schedule.

Interacting with Business and IT professionals providing cloud support, recommending solutions that fulfill needs

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

3+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.

2+ years' experience with public cloud infrastructures.

Experience with supporting Azure / AWS IaaS, PaaS, and Office365 SaaS environments.

Advanced understanding of troubleshooting techniques, recovery options, monitoring, and system protections for on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

Good understanding of networking, applications, and relational databases.

Good understanding of project management.

Ability to interpret and collate relevant data.

Good interpersonal skills, including leadership, diplomacy, and negotiation with customers and senior executives.

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years' experience with the public cloud infrastructures.

Advanced understanding of networking, applications, and relational databases.

Experience with protecting and maintaining systems under HIPAA and PCI regulations.

Experience to automate the cloud resource deployments using the Terraforms and / or CloudFormation.

Experience in deploying applications in containerized environment.

Experience in architecting and implementing cloud-based solutions with robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements - Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to help migrate from on-prem to Cloud and build DR in different region.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.