Cloud Platform Engineer III

SN Branding; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement match

Profit sharing

Hybrid work environment

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Well-being programs

Job summary

Safety National, a leading specialty insurance provider, seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer III in St. Louis to enable development and operations through robust platform capabilities.

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates. You will also build comprehensive observability with Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog, embed security by default, and participate in a 24/7 on-call

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, an IT-related field, or a related field is preferred.
• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Hybrid work schedule with 3 days/week in St. Louis corporate office, address provided.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Information Systems or related field.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates.
• Experience with observability tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Datadog.
• Experience with DevSecOps and secure-by-default platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Azure ecosystem including identity, networking, and compute services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, ARM templates, Ansible).
• Strong CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), and PaaS familiarity.
• Proven ability to translate complex concepts and lead cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities to streamline delivery and operations.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling to support scalable CI/CD, IaC, and deployment automation.
• Standardize platform operations including provisioning, configuration, secrets management and runtime orchestration.
• Build observability across logs, metrics, and traces using Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Embed security by default and support DevSecOps across pipelines and platform tooling.
• Collaborate with developers, cloud engineers, data teams, security, and product teams; mentor team members.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems; support 24/7 on-call.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform

GitHub

ARM templates

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

PaaS

Security

DevSecOps

On-call rotation

IaC

Platform engineering

Incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Ansible

Job description

This opportunity is in the Information Technology department

As the company’s largest department, I.T. is responsible for supporting both ongoing operations and our next innovative project. Information technology is prioritized, allowing us to partner with colleagues to securely enable and support new capabilities every day. Utilizing a diverse set of technologies, like Guidewire, Salesforce, Java, C#/.NET, Mule, and Azure, the available career opportunities continue to grow rapidly. Our department consists of agile teams where individual contributions are recognized, and career advancement is nurtured.

Role Description:

As a Cloud Platform Engineer III, you will play a pivotal role in enabling development and operations teams through robust, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You will help build the foundation that empowers teams to deliver software efficiently, reliably, and securely.

In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization. You will develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and deployment automation using technologies such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates. You will also standardize and automate platform operations, including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration.

You will engineer comprehensive observability solutions across logging, metrics, and traces using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog, while implementing reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability. Security will be integrated into your work as you embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines, support DevSecOps principles, and help ensure platform components and services adhere to security baselines and compliance standards.

Collaboration is essential to your success. You will work closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to support the smooth integration of platform services across the software development lifecycle. You will mentor team members, foster continuous learning and shared ownership, participate in incident response and root cause analysis, and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve platform resilience. You will also serve as an escalation point for platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, an IT-related field, or a related field is preferred.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Information Systems or a related technical field
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates
• Experience with observability technologies such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
• Experience with DevSecOps principles and secure-by-default platform engineering
• Demonstrated expertise in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including identity, networking, and compute services
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible
• Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes on Azure, and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings
• Proficiency in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments
• Solid understanding of cloud security practices and experience integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Professional certifications relevant to cloud, DevOps, or security
• Experience implementing SRE-inspired reliability practices
• Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems
• Experience mentoring technical team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and shared ownership

Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures.

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.

Total Rewards That Put Employees First

In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation that includes base salary, holiday bonus, and incentive awards is only a small portion of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights of our exceptional benefits include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution. We proudly offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, generous paid time off and paid holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability. To support employees in their career journeys, we provide professional growth and development opportunities in addition to employee recognition and well-being programs.

Safety National is committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-based compensation. In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation is only one piece of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. The target base salary range for this position is $101,500 to $131,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location.

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