Azure Platform Lead (Houston)

Azure Platform Service Lead

Location : Hybrid (4 : 1) Houston, TX - Corporate

Reports To : Head of Cloud & Platform Services

Employment Type : Full Time

About Us

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.

Role Overview

Azure Platform Service Lead is responsible for designing, deploying, and managing TMHCCs public cloud platform for Azure hyperscaler. Enables Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC) business teams to connect the dots and evolve cloud capabilities over time. Focuses on cloud native platform developments and implementations that can support TMHCC expansion. Interfaces extensively with TMHCC business teams and supports cloud adoption. Stays current with emerging cloud technology trends and driving innovation in a collaborative, federated environment.

Key Responsibilities

As the Azure Service Lead, responsible for enablement, architecture, security, cost, reliability, and performance efficiency, and support of TMHCC Azure platform and services.

Internal platform and service provider for multiple global business units who own their workloads.

Enablement

Regularly interface with business teams, other architects, and public cloud teams to understand requirements, offer tactical and strategic guidance, and empower with cloud platform.

Capture and share cloud knowledge within business teams and across the company.

Known as the subject matter expert for Azure hyperscaler.

Plan and coordinate platform delivery and dependencies across multiple business teams.

Security

Realize security guardrails per Security team mandated policies and benchmarks.

Offer transparency on guardrail compliance for stakeholders.

Implement least privileges model for public cloud.

Reliability

Offer cloud platform that is resilient across multiple regions.

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 with tagging of significant cost causing cloud services.

In partnership with business teams, achieve cost savings via purchase of savings plans.

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.

Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration

Azure Expert level certifications

HashiCorp Terraform

Skills & Experience

Cloud Landing Zone

Demonstrated ability in designing, building, and automating Azure landing zones for efficient cloud deployments.

Proven expertise in FinOps practices, including resource tagging, cost allocation, and cloud financial management.

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of various cloud application architectures, contributing to the development of cloud platform services that support a wide range of applications.

Strong Troubleshooting and Platform Support

In-depth understanding of Azure App Service Environment (ASE) and Azure functions, particularly in private networking scenarios, to troubleshoot deployment, access, and integration issues.

Strong troubleshooting skills in hybrid DNS environments, including name resolution issues across on-premises and Azure, private endpoints, and VNet configurations.

Ability to support and guide application teams by identifying platform-level issues and coordinating with Microsoft support when needed.

Cloud Security Engineering

Implement advanced security and compliance preventive / remediation guardrails / controls on Azure such as CIS Azure Foundations, Azure Security Center, and Azure Policy.

Proficiency in designing and implementing Azure policies for the comprehensive governance of security, compliance, cost, and operations.

Cloud Network Engineering

Expertise in Azure hub-spoke network architectures including VNET Hub / VWAN and 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. Nice to have experience with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud.

Experience in Azure DevOps pipelines or equivalent for platform automation.

Past 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.

Why Join Us?

At TMHCC, we value innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. You'll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects, develop your skills, and advance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and employee benefit package
• Strong learning culture
• Growth perspectives
• 6% 401K Match
• 20 days of PTO and 2 Floating Days
• Paid parental leave
• An opportunity to love what you do

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tokio Marine HCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.