Cloud Systems Engineer, III

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Alliant Insurance Services

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1925

🛡️ Insurance

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $690M Debt Financing - Alliant Insurance Services on 2019-10

Insurance • B2B • Consulting

Alliant Insurance Services is a leading insurance broker and risk-management firm that provides property & casualty, employee benefits, reinsurance, claims assistance, underwriting, and industry-specific risk solutions. The company offers consulting and customized services across sectors such as healthcare, energy, transportation, real estate & hospitality, public entities, and more, and is ranked among the largest insurance brokers in the U. S. (noted as the #4 largest U. S. broker and the largest privately owned broker). Alliant emphasizes risk management, benefits consulting, disaster response, and specialty solutions for commercial clients.

📋 Description

• Lead infrastructure projects from design through implementation, including scope definition, risk assessment, stakeholder updates, and post-implementation validation • Serve as a primary escalation point for complex incidents; coordinate cross-team troubleshooting and drive root cause analysis and permanent fixes • Design and maintain secure configuration baselines for servers and core services; validate compliance and remediate drift • Own patching and lifecycle strategies for assigned platforms • Develop system-specific operational policies and runbooks; ensure procedures are clear, tested, and adopted • Mentor and coach Systems Engineer I–II staff through pairing, reviews, and skills development plans • Implement automation for provisioning, reporting, health checks, and maintenance tasks • Plan and execute backup and disaster recovery strategies; lead resiliency testing and track remediation • Partner with Security on audits, vulnerability assessments, and control reviews; provide evidence and implement corrective actions • Evaluate and recommend infrastructure tools and services; perform technical validation, proof-of-concept work, and implementation planning • Collaborate with Network, Cloud, Application, and Service Desk teams on service reliability and secure integration patterns • Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and decision records

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience) • Five (5) or more years of systems engineering, infrastructure operations, or a closely related role • Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring junior team members • Experience with cloud hybrid architectures and identity integrations • Experience with compliance frameworks and audit evidence collection in regulated environments • Advanced experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, or related platform technologies • Experience designing hybrid connectivity, identity integration, observability, backup, recovery, or platform security patterns • Experience in insurance, financial services, regulated environments, or complex enterprise technology organizations • Role-aligned certifications (Microsoft, VMware, Linux, cloud provider, or security-focused credentials) • Strong administration and engineering experience in Windows Server and/or Linux, including performance tuning and advanced troubleshooting • Proven ability to design and implement infrastructure services • Competence with infrastructure automation using PowerShell, Bash, and/or configuration tools • Strong understanding of infrastructure security fundamentals, including hardening, secure authentication, logging, vulnerability remediation, and privileged access controls • Experience leading projects and coordinating stakeholders • Excellent documentation skills • Ability to define and improve operational metrics