[Remote] Azure Cloud Engineer II

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is committed to providing health, financial, and lifestyle benefits to ensure a best-in-class employee experience. The Azure Cloud Engineer will implement, optimize, and maintain on-prem and cloud-based solutions while collaborating with various teams to ensure the security and efficiency of cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities
• Collaborating with engineering, information security, and development teams to implement and maintain optimal cloud solutions.
• Support and maintain existing cloud implementations, modifying and improving as needed.
• Follow best practices and new cloud technologies and initiatives
• Collaborating with Cloud architect to design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems
• Implements strategic road maps for Private/Public Cloud infrastructure.
• Implements and maintains the Private/Public Cloud infrastructure through established IT policies and procedures and ITIL framework for on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience Optimizing Cloud infrastructure utilizing cloud elasticity.
• Experience configuring / maintaining cloud cost management.
• Maintains orchestration and automation of cloud enablement tools.
• Participates in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities.
• Participates in On-Call rotation schedule.
• Interacting with Business and IT professionals providing cloud support, recommending solutions that fulfill needs

Skills
• 3+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
• 2+ years’ experience with public cloud infrastructures.
• Advanced understanding of troubleshooting techniques, recovery options, monitoring, and system protections for on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Good understanding of networking, applications, and relational databases.
• Good understanding of project management.
• Ability to interpret and collate relevant data.
• Good interpersonal skills, including leadership, diplomacy, and negotiation with customers and senior executives.
• 3+ years’ experience with the public cloud infrastructures.
• Advanced understanding of networking, applications, and relational databases.
• Experience with supporting Azure/AWS IaaS, PaaS, and Office365 SaaS environments.
• Experience with protecting and maintaining systems under HIPAA and PCI regulations.
• Experience to automate the cloud resource deployments using the Terraforms and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience in deploying applications in containerized environment.
• Experience in architecting and implementing cloud-based solutions with robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements – Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to help migrate from on-prem to Cloud and build DR in different region.

Education Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.

Benefits
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) plan that both the employee and employer contribute
• Annual incentive bonus plan based on company achievement of goals
• Time away from work including paid holidays, paid time off and volunteer time off
• Professional development courses, mentorship opportunities, and tuition reimbursement program
• Paid parental leave and adoption leave with adoption financial assistance
• Employee discount program

Company Overview
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a not-for-profit health insurance provider serving more than one million members in 32 counties in greater Kansas City and northwest Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. It was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.bluekc.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.