Sr Cloud Engineer - FINOPS - Azure Cloud Platform

Lockton • Kansas City, MO

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About The Position

The Senior Cloud Engineer designs, operates, automates, and continuously improves the Azure Cloud Platform. The role maintains the enterprise Azure landing zone, shared services, cloud governance controls, and automation capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable cloud services across the organization. It serves as a key technical leadership role and Level-3 escalation point, partnering with regional teams to promote standardization, operational excellence, and global cloud adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Azure cloud engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zones, networking, security, governance, and cloud operations.
• Strong expertise with Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting highly available, globally distributed cloud platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain Azure landing zone infrastructure, including networking, firewalls, shared compute, backup, patching, and platform reliability.
• Drive Azure FinOps and cloud cost optimization, including resource utilization analysis, cost allocation and showback/chargeback models, budgeting, forecasting, rightsizing recommendations, and governance controls.
• Manage shared services, including identity, connectivity, monitoring, logging, security, and automation platforms.
• Own Azure subscription provisioning and lifecycle management, and enforce enterprise baseline configurations and governance controls.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation solutions for scalable cloud operations.
• Provide cloud onboarding, DevOps enablement, and self-service capabilities for application and regional teams.
• Serve as the Level-3 technical escalation point for Azure platform, infrastructure, and landing-zone issues.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with regional cloud teams to ensure consistent implementation of standards, governance, security controls, and operational processes worldwide.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior