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Protective Life Corporation

Protective Life Corporation is a Fortune 500 holding company that provides its subsidiaries with financial services through the administration, distribution, an

Lead Cloud Architect

Location

Alabama

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$122K - $150K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Lead Cloud Architect

Protective Life Corporation

• Architect the Cloud Foundation: Partner with peers to refine Azure Landing Zone architectures • Build "Paved Roads" for Cloud Enablement: Collaborate to enhance reusable IaC modules and CI/CD templates • Drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices • Standardize Advanced Platforms: Optimize AKS and related services • Foster Platform Resilience and Scalability • Contribute to Team Excellence: Exchange knowledge via code reviews, troubleshooting, and sessions • Advance DevOps and Automation: Champion CI/CD and release strategies organization-wide • Innovate with Identity and Emerging Tech

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years in cloud engineering (5+ in Azure architecture/SRE)
  • hands-on in production-scale environments
  • high-availability, and root-cause analysis
  • Background in Cloud Development and Architecture
  • experience managing projects of varying scale
  • Proficient in Azure essentials: Landing Zones, AKS, VMs, Container Instances, Blob Storage, VNet, Entra ID, Policy/Blueprints
  • Design/manage IaaS/PaaS/SaaS (Load Balancers, App Gateways, DNS, Front Door, Storage, Monitor, Security Center, Log Analytics)
  • IaC/CI/CD mastery (Bicep/ARM/Terraform, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, PowerShell/CLI)
  • 2+ years in automation for CI/CD
  • SRE core: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability (Azure Monitor/Prometheus/Grafana)
  • Security: Defender, Sentinel, Key Vault; IAM depth (Entra ID, AD, Azure AD DS/Connect/B2C, MFA)
  • Enterprise account/security models; Azure Policy implementation; Key Vault/encryption
  • 2+ years O365 and Azure AD B2C; 2+ years Kubernetes/Docker/Containers; 3+ years Azure (Functions, API Mgmt, Blobs, VMs, SQL, Event Grid)
  • Large-scale distributed systems, OSes, secure configs; deep Azure/cloud knowledge
  • Skills: Complex system problem-solving; container/microservices; requirements-to-architecture translation
  • Soft Skills: Collaborative communicator for partnerships/influence; agile/blameless culture; change/incident management
  • Certifications: AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-400, CKAD/CKA; AZ-300 A plus
  • Bachelor's in CS/Engineering (or equivalent) strongly preferred

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
  • mental health benefits
  • employee assistance program
  • paid time off
  • paid parental leave
  • short-term disability
  • cultural observance day
  • contributions to healthcare accounts
  • pension plan
  • 401(k) plan with Company matching
  • ProHealth Rewards

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