Lead Cloud Architect

🕒 January 14

🏈 Alabama – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote

💵 $122k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Protective Life

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1908

💸 Finance

Finance • Insurance

Protective Life is a financial services company specializing in providing affordable life insurance and annuities. The company offers a variety of insurance products such as term life, whole life, and universal life policies, as well as fixed, immediate, indexed, and variable annuities. Protective Life assists individuals in planning for their future, including retirement, estate planning, and financial protection for families. The company emphasizes its commitment to sustainability, community involvement, and helping customers achieve protection and security throughout various life stages. Protective Life is known for its strong financial foundation and is licensed to operate in all states except New York.

📋 Description

• 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