[Hiring] Cloud Infrastructure Architect @Preferred Mutual Insurance Company

Role Description

The Cloud Infrastructure and Architect designs and helps manage the organization's foundational technology layers. This role bridges business goals and IT operations by creating secure, scalable systems that support servers, networks, cloud platforms, and storage. The ideal candidate balances competing priorities like performance, cost efficiency, scalability, and operational complexity to support modern application delivery and digital transformation.

In addition to deep technical execution across Microsoft Azure, automation, and DevSecOps, the architect acts as a visionary advisor, leveraging emerging technologies and hyper-automation to influence business strategy, drive operational efficiencies and reduce insurance processing cycles.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Partnership & Business Transformation
  • Identify opportunities where emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI infrastructure, advanced MLOps, predictive scaling) and automation can optimize the P&C insurance value chain, improve combined ratios, and accelerate product time-to-market.
• Cloud Architecture & System Design
  • Create strategic blueprints detailing how hardware, software, and networks interact within the enterprise ecosystem to support business goals.
  • Plan and execute the transition of localized data centers to modern, scalable Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
  • Assess existing hardware, software, and system codebases to eliminate structural constraints, find errors, and plan architectural upgrades.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Standardize and provision infrastructure utilizing IaC and code-driven deployments to systematically eliminate configuration drift.
  • Author new code and develop standardized infrastructure blueprints to automate environment provisioning.
  • Assist with designing automated build and release pipelines to enable robust continuous deployment (CI/CD) capabilities and drive DevSecOps practices.
  • Expand JSM automation into a full self-service catalog.
• Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance
  • Build security mechanisms directly into the foundational architectural layers of the enterprise.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance to automate enforcement of controls and workflows.
  • Coordinate closely with corporate security engineers to satisfy complex compliance regulations and insurance market standards.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship
  • Serve as the principal technical lead for large initiatives impacting foundational infrastructure.
  • Mentor, teach, and develop technical skills among IT teams and engineering peers.
• Technology Evaluation & Innovation
  • Evaluate emerging tools with focus on AI and automation.
  • Lead POCs to measure effectiveness and share results with leadership and broader business / technical team.
  • Assess AI integration into automation workflows with clear tie to measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related technical discipline, required.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert required, and Azure Administrator Associate credential, preferred.
• 5+ years of progressively responsible technical experience in a senior infrastructure role, with a strong background in scoping, architecting, and deploying enterprise-scale platforms.
• Proven track record leading cloud migrations and managing production workloads inside Microsoft Azure.
• Practical experience working with Infrastructure as Code toolsets (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) and managing CI/CD automation pipelines.
• Relevant background working in highly regulated industry frameworks; experience within the Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance sector is preferred.

Benefits

• Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage are provided at no cost.
• Optional benefits include enhanced life insurance and critical illness plans.
• 401k plan with an employer contribution that you will receive regardless of your own contribution to the plan.
• A cash-balance pension plan.
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
• A short-term incentive plan for all employees.
• Generous paid time off, offering of 25 days at hire (prorated based on start date for the first year).
• 7 days of paid sick leave.
• 10 paid company holidays.
• Personalized paid time off after 3 years!
• Access to 26 sessions with a BetterHelp therapist each year for you and up to 5 dependents, as well as access to all of BetterHelp’s group and digital resources.
• Access to Family First, a team of care experts who can provide you and your loved ones 1:1 assistance with a variety of caregiving solutions, from elder care to legal and financial challenges, insurance and Medicare navigation, and more!
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage options begin on the first day of employment.
• Health Savings Accounts (with a generous employer contribution!).