Senior Could Engineer

Description

Bankwell is a commercial bank with more than $3 billion in assets that serves the banking needs of businesses and individuals. At Bankwell, we pride ourselves on our unique ability to bring you high touch, high quality banking with the expertise and dedication of our experienced team of professionals. When it comes to business, our deep industry knowledge, flexibility and innovative treasury and financing services enable us to find the right solutions for our business and commercial clients.

We are passionate about giving back and are actively involved with many not-for-profit organizations that help shape and improve the lives of others. We are dedicated to giving our time and talent to support the communities we serve. More about Bankwell can be found at

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, automating, and operating Bankwell cloud and enterprise infrastructure, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform. This senior-level role will help build and mature the Azure foundation required to support strategic modernization efforts, including AI workloads, Snowflake data platform integration, secure connectivity, identity, monitoring, compliance, and disaster recovery.

The ideal candidate has deep Azure engineering experience, strong Terraform and automation skills, and the judgment to design secure, repeatable, well-documented cloud patterns in a regulated banking environment.

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity integrations, storage, compute, monitoring, and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Azure landing zone patterns, configuration standards, naming conventions, tagging standards, and resource governance practices.
• Support Azure platform services required for AI, analytics, data engineering, Snowflake connectivity, and enterprise application modernization.
• Manage and optimize Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra , and on-premises integrations to ensure reliability, performance, availability, and secure access.
• Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning for cloud-hosted and hybrid services.

• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of Terraform modules, work spaces, state management, reusable design patterns, and infrastructure deployment standards.
• Build repeatable, version-controlled provisioning pipelines using Terraform, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, Git, Power Shell, Python, Azure CLI, and related automation tools.
• Implement peer review, change control, testing, and documentation practices for infrastructure as code changes.
• Automate routine cloud operations, configuration drift detection, tagging compliance, access reviews, monitoring, and operational reporting where practical.

• Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned with least privilege, zero trust principles, secure configuration baselines, and Bankwell policy requirements.
• Partner with Information Security, Risk, Audit, and Compliance teams to support regulatory expectations, evidence requests, control validation, and audit readiness.
• Support Microsoft Purview, data loss prevention, records management, retention, and governance controls where they intersect with cloud and Microsoft 365 platforms.
• Design and maintain secure identity, access, RBAC, privileged access, key management, logging, alerting, and monitoring practices across Azure and related platforms.

• Engineer the cloud…