Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

McNeil & Co.; Farmington (CT); On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

401k with matching

PTO 20 days

Paid holidays

Life and AD&D Insurance

Parental Leave

Student Loan Assistance

Tuition Reimbursement

Backup Child/Elder Care

Job summary

McNeil & Co. in Farmington, CT is seeking a mid-level Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to design, operate, and evolve our Azure environment. The role emphasizes architecture, hands-on operations, and translating requirements into solid Azure designs for implementation.

You will automate infrastructure and cost-management tasks, collaborate with security and governance, and support DevSecOps across Terraform/ARM/Bicep pipelines. Strong experience with Azure and IaC is essential.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

Azure

IaC

Networking

PowerShell

Python

GitHub

Linux/Windows Server

Education

AZ-104

AZ-305

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

GitHub

Job description

McNeil & Co. in Farmington, CT is seeking a mid-level Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to design, operate, and evolve our Azure environment. The role emphasizes architecture, hands-on operations, and translating requirements into solid Azure designs for implementation.

You will automate infrastructure and cost-management tasks, collaborate with security and governance, and support DevSecOps across Terraform/ARM/Bicep pipelines. Strong experience with Azure and IaC is essential.