Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) Location Philadelphia, PA (Logan Square area) :

Independence Blue Cross is looking for a Sr Azure Cloud Engineer. You will play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud. Bring your drive for excellence, teamwork, and customer commitment and join us as we renew and reimagine the future of health care. Together we will achieve our mission to enhance the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

We are looking for dynamic individuals who love to learn, thrive on innovation, and are open to exploring new ways to achieve our goals. You will a part of a high-performing team of engineers who are modernizing the way we leverage our cloud workloads.

Relevant Technologies

Azure, Microsoft 365, Terraform

Responsibilities

• Design and Implement Azure architecture and environments.
• Assist in building and maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Leverage automation tools such as Terraform for operational efficiency.
• Azure SSO integrations
• Active Directory
• Utilize Azure experiences such as guest tenant access packages.
• MFA and WHfB support
• PIM (Privileged Identity Management)
• Assignments
• RBAC
• Custom roles, e.g.:
• First Level Support Role - Azure BitLocker Recovery Key Access
• First Level Support Role - Azure LAPS Access
• Conditional Access Management
• PowerShell, REST and MS Graph.
• Create and maintain cloud architecture diagrams.
• Daily administration of Microsoft 365 environments.
• Maintain best practices and support procedures.
• Extend and enhance IBC on-prem policy and standards to Azure deployments.
• Implement and maintain solutions and technologies that address cyber security issues.
• Perform scheduled and ad hoc control/compliance validation.
• Assessment and audit of compliance against the security policies and standards.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, configuration management, and reporting functions.
• Provide after-hours support for Production Release.
• Serve as technical expert in Azure cloud.
• Provide support with escalated help desk requests via Service Now.
• Intune - Device/User Affinity and Mobile Application Management policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or equivalent knowledge acquired by work experience and training.
• Working experience of at least three years in designing, building, and expanding Azure environments.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with configuration and implementation of packaged or custom IAM solutions.
• Proficiency in the ability to prepare presentations, analysis reports, and program status reports.
• Proven experience working in highly collaborative environments.
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration.
• Familiarity with Encryption, Logging, and Privacy/Security Protocols (e.g. TLS 1.2, ELK stack).
• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages.
• Expertise in securing systems, providing audit evidence, and standards implementation.
• Excellent oral/written presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with leadership.

Hybrid

Independence has implemented a “Hybrid” model which consists of Associates working in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) and remotely 2 days a week (Monday & Friday). This role is designated as a role that fits into the “Hybrid” model. While associates may work remotely on our designated remote days, the work must be performed in the Tri-State Area of Delaware, New Jersey or Pennsylvania.