Azure Cloud Solutions Architect

Tokio Marine HCC-posted 4 months ago

Full-time • Mid Level

Hybrid • Houston, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

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Cloud Platform Lead is responsible for designing, deploying, and managing TMHCC’s public cloud platform for Azure hyper scaler. 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.

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.

Bachelor's 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.
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.

Nice to have experience with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud.

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

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