Azure Cloud Engineer

About Kuvare

Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

Kuvare Family Of Companies

Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:

• United Life Insurance Company
• Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
• Lincoln Benefit Life
  
  

Institutional Insurance

• Kuvare Life Re
  
  

Bespoke Insurance Solutions

• Ignite Partners
  
  

About The Role

The role of Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the design and implementation of Azure architecture, components and environments. The Cloud Engineer will be expected to have experience with managing a cloud environment with via scripting / coding when appropriate and as a preference. The Cloud Engineer will demonstrate knowledge of Cloud Architecture best practices, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure monitoring & tuning.

What You'll Do

1. Experience designing Azure environments and resources.

• Experience creating templates to deploy Azure resources.
• Experience with Azure private endpoints.
• Experience documenting systems and configuration.
• Experience creating and maintaining PowerShell (or other language) scripts for environment management.
• Insurance industry experience preferred but not required.
• Candidate should have mode of the following experience:
• SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) / DevOps mindset & experience (Most Cloud Engineer candidates will not have this experience, or maybe not know what an SRE is – unless they claim to be an SRE, but we need someone who is at least familiar and wants to work in this type of environment)
• Understand Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code and environment management via code pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code / Scripting / Coding (Required)
• Candidate must demonstrate Scripting / IaC (Infrastructure as Code) experience
• Use of IaC / Scripting technologies such as (Terraform/ BICEP) – Note that Kuvare currently uses BICEP
• ARM Templates
• Source Code Management usage for Code and understanding of GitFlow principles
• Preferred – Experience deploying IaC code via a pipeline / tooling versus using the command line on their local workstation (with YAML and AZ-CLI – the Azure Command Line interface)
• State Configuration Management (Windows primarily and Linux a plus)
• PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration)
• Ansible/Chef/Puppet/etc is a plus
• Intune
• Azure Compliance / Policy Management using one of the following approaches:
• Pipelines (YAML/AZ-CLI)
• IaC (BICEP/Terraform/etc)
• ARM Templates
• Azure Monitoring/Logging
• Conceptual knowledge of observability platforms. Experience in platform. However Azure experience as listed below is preferred.
• Azure Monitor
• Understand the data source ingestion for logs and metrics and the data tools in Azure Monitor
• Analytics (Log & Metric Analytics)
• Insights (App Insights, Containers, etc)
  
  

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Effective listening and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.