Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Arch Capital Group•Farmington, CT

About The Position

A mid-level Infrastructure Cloud Engineer responsible for designing, operating, and evolving our Azure environment. This role focuses on architecture, hands-on operations, and translating business/technical requirements into sound Azure designs that Corporate then implements. This role will be responsible for automation of operations for infrastructure and financial operations to maintain predictable cost.

Requirements

3–5 years in infrastructure, systems administration, or cloud engineering
At least 3 years hands-on experience with Azure native services (compute, storage, networking, Entra ID)
AZ-104 or AZ-305 required
Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, load balancing, hybrid connectivity)
Demonstrated 2 years’ experience writing and troubleshooting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform or Bicep)
Github in use for infrastructure scripting and IaC
Scripting proficiency (PowerShell or Python) for diagnostics and reporting
Experience with Windows/Linux server administration

Nice To Haves

Experience in a regulated industry (insurance, financial services)
Familiarity with Azure AD/Entra ID governance, conditional access, and PIM
Exposure to architecture frameworks (Azure Well-Architected Framework)
AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect) certification
Ability to design solutions independently while working within a shared build-automation model
Strong documentation skills — designs must be handed off cleanly to a separate build team
Strong communications skills – ability to interface directly with stakeholders in group meetings and one-on-one via email.
Comfortable operating at the design/implementation boundary
Strong sense of accountability and ownership. Able to take an incident or project to closure.

Responsibilities

Design Azure infrastructure architecture for new projects (networking topology, resource organization, subscription/resource group structure)
Evaluate Azure services against business requirements and recommend solutions
Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, design documents, and decision records for review with stakeholders
Assess proposed changes for scalability, resilience, and cost impact before build
Participate in architecture review sessions with Arch Re Enterprise Architecture team and Service Delivery management.
Monitor resource health, utilization, and cost; flag optimization opportunities
Design and build dashboards, scripts, tools and other assets to be used by the Infrastructure Operations team.
Develop thresholds, alerting and supporting processes for incident routing.
Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and produce root-cause analysis and remediation specs for Corporate to execute as a member of the level 3 Infrastructure support team
Design and maintain in collaboration with Network Engineer specifications for VNets, subnets, peering, ExpressRoute/VPN, load balancers, and firewalls
Design and maintain DNS and hybrid connectivity between on-prem and Arch cloud environments in Azure and AWS
Design IAM/RBAC models and least-privilege access structures in Azure AD/Entra ID
Review conditional access policies set by Corporate for segment requirements and access review processes and how they impact users and services delivered by Reinsurance IT
Partner with security/compliance on identity governance given regulatory obligations (insurance/financial services)
Ensure architecture designs meet compliance requirements (SOC 2, applicable insurance/financial regulations)
Review security posture of existing cloud resources and recommend remediation
Assist product teams with DevSecOps processes and remediations of findings where applicable.
Support audits with architecture documentation and evidence
Translate architecture designs into specifications and runbooks Corporate's build teams can execute (Terraform/ARM/Bicep requirements, pipeline requests)
Review Corporate's IaC output against intended design for correctness