Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MetLife Legal Plans provides legal plan services and is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join its DevOps Team. The role focuses on building and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, automating deployment and monitoring, supporting migrations to cloud-based microservices, and developing cloud architecture documentation.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers throughout MLP to ensure we are using best practices to build scalable, secure, and operationally sound systems
- Work with the DevOps team to define OKRs for our goals and quantitatively measure progress against those targets
- Problem-solving and unblocking teams using our internal tools
- Automate routine cloud deployment, administration, and monitoring tasks
- Work with teams to migrate/refactor monolithic applications to microservices in the the cloud
- Plan for the growth of MLP’s infrastructure
- Develop and maintain Cloud reference architecture and design documents
Skills
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies including backup and restore, ASR, Network, NSG, troubleshooting, and operational logging, NSG, Gateway, Firewalls, Subnets, Vnets. Knowledge of azure security constructs, CLI, PowerShell, ARM
- Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
- Azure Administrator and Azure Architect certification
- Experience with build and support of Azure cloud deployments
- Operational support of Azure Solutions deployed to the cloud
- Experience with networking, especially connecting Azure to on-premise networks and AWS
- Proficiency in scripting in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, Go, and/or others
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as CodePipeline, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Sumologic, Kibana
- This position requires up to 10% travel
- You can work from anywhere in the U.S
- Applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Benefits
- Remote by default; employees can work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Two Healthcare Insurance options (Traditional PPO or HSA with employer contribution)
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company contribution and free access to financial advisors
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) program with 23-39 days annually based on years of service, plus prorated PTO for new hires
- Free Aura® Identity Theft & Fraud Protection
- Free access to the MetLife Legal Plans benefit
- Company-paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Corporate discounts
- Annual bonus eligibility
- Nine company-paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Parking or RTA subsidy for Cleveland employees
- Pet Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Voluntary Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
- Volunteer Day
- Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Financial wellness tools, education, and coaching
- PTO is prorated during an employee's first year of employment based on their hire date. Employees hired in the first quarter of the year receive 18 days of PTO, those hired in the second quarter receive 16 days, employees hired in the third quarter receive 9 days, and those hired in the fourth quarter receive 7 days. PTO is awarded at the time of hire and then moves to the standard annual accrual schedule beginning January 1 of the following year
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