Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Leggett & Platt is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join our engineering team at the IDEA Center in Lenexa, Kansas. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a close-knit team in a global organization. In this position, you will own the design, deployment, and ongoing operation of cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure, enabling reliable and scalable product delivery across our development teams.

You will bring deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and deployment strategies that minimize risk and maximize uptime. We are looking for a highly collaborative engineer who builds strong working relationships across IT teams and business units, communicates technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, takes ownership of outcomes, and continuously raises the bar on engineering excellence.

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure using Bicep as the primary Infrastructure as Code (IaC) language, ensuring environments are repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable.
• Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, enabling automated build, test, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production environments.
• Lead implementation of Blue/Green and canary deployment strategies to enable zero-downtime releases and rapid rollback capabilities.
• Own deployment management practices across multiple environments, including environment promotion workflows, release gates, and deployment approvals.
• Manage Azure networking components including Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, and Application Gateway.
• Configure and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Azure Container Apps for containerized workload deployments.
• Implement and manage observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights to ensure system health and rapid incident response.
• Enforce cloud governance through Azure Policy, RBAC, Managed Identities, and security baselines aligned with organizational compliance requirements.
• Drive Fin Ops practices including cost monitoring, resource tagging standards, and optimization recommendations across Azure subscriptions.
• Serve as a key liaison between the IDEA Center engineering team and IT teams across multiple business units, aligning on infrastructure standards, shared services, and deployment practices to enable consistent, reliable delivery organization-wide.
• Implement disaster recovery and high availability architectures to meet defined RTO/RPO targets.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted operations tooling and Azure AI services to improve platform reliability and developer productivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of hands‑on cloud engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on Microsoft Azure.
• Expert‑level proficiency in Bicep for Infrastructure as Code; ability to author, test, and maintain modular Bicep templates across complex environments.
• Proven experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines with Azure Dev Ops Pipelines, including multi‑stage pipelines, environment approvals, and artifact management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Blue/Green, canary, or feature‑flag‑based deployment patterns in production environments.
• Strong command of Azure networking: VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, DNS, Load Balancers, and Application Gateway.
• Solid understanding of Azure security fundamentals:
  Azure Active Directory / Entra , RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and Defender for Cloud.
• Proficiency in Power Shell and/or Azure CLI for scripting, automation, and operational tasks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, AKS, or Azure Container Apps).
• Strong understanding of Agile/Dev Ops methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues under pressure.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to build…