Azure Cloud Engineer

Company: NICO National Indemnity Company wants to work for a company with unparalleled financial strength and stability that offers “large company” benefits with an exciting, friendly, and “small company” atmosphere. As part of the Berkshire Hathaway group of Insurance Companies, we provide opportunities for professionals interested in just that.

The Azure Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance, planning, and support for the Company’s Azure cloud compute, networking, and storage infrastructure. They will partner with business, IT Security, Software Development, and other IT Infrastructure teams on projects to ensure secure delivery and upkeep of business initiatives. The Azure Cloud Engineer provides technical leadership and guidance to project team members and technical staff.

• Perform day-to-day cloud engineering tasks such as provisioning of Azure hub and spoke networks, compute, storage using IaC;
• Administrate identity and access;
• Support third‑party tool integrations to Azure;
• Build automation and other cloud engineering tasks at the base infrastructure level;
• Participate in technical architecture discussions with enterprise and domain architects and other IT team members to help design and build modern cloud solutions;
• Responsible for monitoring the health and performance of the Company’s cloud and on‑prem platforms, applications, and services;
• Implement and maintain proper security levels for Company systems and cloud‑based applications according to company security policies;
• Work with Product Owners and other business team members to help empower their digital transformation goals and provide resource deployment orchestration, automation, and configuration expertise.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience;
• 5+ years related work experience in Azure infrastructure;
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) – preferably Bicep, ARM Templates (JSON) / CLI, Power Shell;
• Dev Ops pipelines experience (CI/CD);

• Someone who is self‑motivated and works independently and as part of a team;
• Someone who communicates with explanation, discussion, problem solving and considerable tact;
• Someone who is a continuous learner with a passion for creative problem solving.

• Employee Resource Groups for volunteering, connecting with others, social gatherings, and professional development;
• Company wide surveys to gather employee input;
• Wellness program integrated into company culture with an online wellness portal and a year-round, one‑stop shop to manage and track all areas of health;
• Complimentary state‑of‑the‑art onsite fitness center in Omaha office;
• Retirement and savings plan with immediate enrollment and 100% employer match up to 5%;
• Medical, Dental and Vision for regular, full‑time employees and eligible dependents;
• Dedicated Learning & Development program for personal and professional growth;
• 100% upfront Educational Reimbursement program;
• Subsidized downtown parking;
• Competitive time off policies including parental leave;
• Employee Assistance program and more.