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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.\nTo be considered for this position, applicants must submit a resume that includes their full name, current residential address, email address, and phone number. Resumes that do not contain all required contact information will not be considered.\nWhy You’ll Love This Role WoodmenLife is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer III to help design, build, and evolve our Azure cloud platform. This senior technical role is highly impactful—driving platform engineering maturity, advancing our Azure Landing Zone, and enabling secure, scalable cloud solutions across the enterprise. You will partner closely with our Cloud Architect and Enterprise Architecture teams to operationalize cloud standards and deliver reusable engineering patterns. This role combines hands-on engineering with platform ownership, mentorship, and influence on the future direction of our cloud environment. This is a platform engineering role focused on building and evolving the Azure foundation—not just supporting individual application workloads. At WoodmenLife, you’ll also enjoy a culture that values people as much as technology. With Friday afternoons off year-round, a collaborative environment, and a focus on outcomes rather than hours, you’ll find a workplace designed to support both professional impact and personal well-being.\nAbout the Team This role is a core contributor of WoodmenLife’s Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of the Systems Engineering organization. The Cloud CoE (led by the Cloud Architect) defines standards, guardrails, and platform direction, while the Systems Engineering team provides the delivery and operational foundation for the Azure platform. As a Cloud Engineer III, you will bridge strategy and execution—owning platform engineering outcomes while helping operationalize the enterprise cloud model.\nRole Summary The Cloud Engineer III is a senior platform engineer responsible for designing, building, and evolving WoodmenLife’s Azure cloud platform. This role owns key platform domains, operationalizes cloud standards and guardrails, and delivers secure, scalable, and automated solutions that support enterprise modernization.\nWhat You’ll Do Cloud Engineering & Platform Delivery\n\nLead design and engineering of complex Microsoft Azure platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards\n\nOwn and evolve one or more Azure platform domains such as identity, networking, governance, or DevOps pipelines\n\nIntegrate hybrid cloud environments leveraging Azure networking and identity services\n\nLead Infrastructure as Code development using Bicep (primary), PowerShell, and Azure CLI\n\nAdvance Azure Landing Zone components (governance, identity, network, security) to support enterprise-scale, secure-by-default environments\n\nCollaborate with Cloud Architects, Enterprise Architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to implement and operationalize approved platform standards, engineering patterns, and cloud guardrails\n\nMonitoring, Cost Optimization & Observability\n\nEnhance cloud observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and App Insights to improve proactive detection and response\n\nImplement cost optimization and financial transparency practices aligned to business outcomes, including tagging, budgeting, and usage analytics\n\nLead efforts to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud resource utilization and platform performance\n\nAutomation, DevOps & Enablement\nLead development of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and modern Git-based workflows\n\nBuild automation frameworks that streamline provisioning, monitoring, and operational tasks, leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Azure AI services) to improve development efficiency and code quality\n\nDevelop reusable templates, scripts, and modules to support scalable, self-service platform capabilities and enable development teams through standardized patterns\n\nEmbed governance controls, policy enforcement, and configuration management into automation workflows\n\nCollaboration, Leadership & Mentoring\nMentor Systems Engineers and technical peers across the organization, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and high performance\n\nSupport Agile ceremonies and iterative delivery culture for cloud initiatives\n\nContribute to the Cloud Center of Excellence through knowledge sharing, documentation, tooling, and best practices\n\nSecurity, Governance & Compliance\nImplement Azure governance controls (Azure Policy, RBAC, resource organization)\n\nEnsure secure-by-default configurations aligned with enterprise security standards\n\nSupport identity governance through Entra ID and least-privilege models\n\nResilience, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery\n\nLead planning and implementation of cloud-based Business Continuity and DR strategies\n\nImplement resilient, highly available solutions leveraging availability zones, automated failover, and cloud-native backup strategies\n\nInnovation & Continuous Improvement\nEvaluate emerging Azure capabilities, including AI and automation technologies, and recommend platform enhancements that improve engineering productivity and platform maturity\n\nProvide technical guidance and advocacy for cloud engineering best practices, automation-first patterns, and modern architectural approaches\n\nWhat You Bring Minimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree strongly preferred\n\n10+ years of progressive IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, including recent, sustained hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise-scale Azure environments\n\nDeep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Bicep preferred; 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I focus on clarity, operating discipline, and measurable outcomes while building strong technical teams and giving them the autonomy and trust to execute.”\nWoodmenLife offers a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits package. More information about our benefits can be found at: As part of WoodmenLife’s employment process, candidates will be required to complete a criminal background check, credit check (where required for position), fingerprint check (where required for position), drug screen, and reference checks. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon successfully passing the above.\nWoodmenLife is welcoming to all regardless of background and beliefs. We respect every associate’s unique perspective and contribution. We are committed to creating an environment that values differences and provides opportunities for growth, leadership, and service. 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