Sr Cloud Engineer

Lockton Companies; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Lockton Companies in Kansas City, MO is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, operate, automate, and continuously improve our Azure Cloud Platform. You will maintain the enterprise Azure landing zone, shared services, governance controls, and automation capabilities to deliver secure, scalable cloud services across the organization.

You will partner with regional teams, lead L3 escalation, and drive standardization, operational excellence, and cloud adoption globally, enabling teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of Azure cloud engineering in enterprise settings.
• Hands-on with Azure Landing Zones, networking, security, governance, and operations.
• Strong Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI, GitHub and CI/CD skills.
• Experience supporting globally distributed, highly available cloud platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain Azure landing zone infra (networking, firewalls, compute, backup, patching).
• Manage shared services: identity, connectivity, monitoring, logging, security, automation.
• Own Azure subscription provisioning, lifecycle management, and governance configurations.
• Develop and maintain IaC and CI/CD pipelines for scalable cloud operations.
• Provide cloud onboarding, DevOps enablement, and self-service for app/regional teams.
• Serve as Level-3 escalation for Azure platform and landing-zone issues.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continual improvement.
• Collaborate with regional cloud teams to standardize governance and security globally.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

DevOps practices

Automation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure CLI

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to design, operate, automate, and continuously improve our Azure Cloud Platform. This role is responsible for maintaining the enterprise Azure landing zone, shared services, cloud governance controls, and automation capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable cloud services across the organization. The Senior Cloud Engineer serves as a key technical leader and Level-3 escalation point, partnering with regional teams to drive standardization, operational excellence, and cloud adoption globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain Azure landing zone infrastructure, including networking, firewalls, shared compute, backup, patching, and platform reliability.
• Manage shared services including identity, connectivity, monitoring, logging, security, and automation platforms.
• Own Azure subscription provisioning, lifecycle management, and enforcement of enterprise baseline configurations and governance controls.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation solutions to enable scalable cloud operations.
• Provide cloud onboarding, DevOps enablement, and self-service capabilities for application and regional teams.
• Serve as the Level-3 technical escalation point for Azure platform, infrastructure, and landing-zone issues.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with regional cloud teams to ensure consistent implementation of standards, governance, security controls, and operational processes worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Azure cloud engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zones, networking, security, governance, and cloud operations.
• Strong expertise with Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting highly available, globally distributed cloud platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills.

What Success Looks Like

• Secure, reliable, and highly available Azure platform operations.
• Increased automation and reduced manual operational effort.
• Consistent cloud standards and governance across all regions.
• Rapid resolution of platform incidents and escalations.
• Accelerated cloud adoption through self-service and enablement capabilities.

Join us in building and operating a world-class Azure cloud platform that powers secure, scalable, and innovative technology services across our organization.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone anequal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learnsfrom, celebrates and thrives because of ourbreadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.

About Lockton

Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 13,100+ Associates doing business in over 155 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.

At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.

How We Will Support You

At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.

We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.