Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Architect: Cloud & Security

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Inc.

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 143,000 - 208,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Inc. is seeking a senior cloud architect to lead the Microsoft 365 platform, drive architecture, security, governance, and automation for cloud-native and hybrid environments.

The role provides expert leadership for platform modernization, architectural roadmaps, and escalation for complex technical issues, ensuring alignment with business objectives and smooth operation by internal teams and managed providers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • Master's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years software development in web, web service, API architectures, and cloud
  • Experience with Microsoft 365 engineering at enterprise scale (5,000+ users)
  • Expertise in security controls, automation, and cloud governance
  • Experience with IaC tools and automation environments
  • Experience moving workloads to IaaS and hybrid-cloud transformations
  • Knowledge of network, security, and monitoring tools

Responsibilities

  • Translate project requirements into cloud infrastructure designs
  • Establish relationships with key technology vendors and influence future product releases
  • Design self-healing, fault-tolerant cloud services with best practices
  • Develop templates and guidelines for cloud computing
  • Lead infrastructure as code projects and mentor junior engineers
  • Oversee cloud-native and hybrid cloud environments and monitor security vulnerabilities

Skills

Microsoft 365
Cloud security
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Docker
Kubernetes
IaC
Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree

Tools

AWS
Azure
CloudFormation

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Inc. is seeking a senior cloud architect to lead the Microsoft 365 platform, drive architecture, security, governance, and automation for cloud-native and hybrid environments.

The role provides expert leadership for platform modernization, architectural roadmaps, and escalation for complex technical issues, ensuring alignment with business objectives and smooth operation by internal teams and managed providers.

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