Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

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The best work happens when smart people move fast, together. At Applied, we’ve spent 40+ years building technology that solves real problems for insurance professionals, and we’re not slowing down. We’re pushing what’s possible in Insurtech and doing it inside a culture built on trust, inclusion, and growth.

• Role:
  Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
• Team:
  Corporate IT
• Location:
  
  Remote

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Corporate IT and make a real difference for the people who depend on our products every day. This role owns our cloud platform across Azure (primary) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with strong preferred experience in AWS. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure at enterprise scale — including landing zone automation, Kubernetes platforms, secrets management, hybrid networking, and application delivery pipelines.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about driving business outcomes through cloud excellence and AI-augmented engineering, we want to hear from you

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available environments across Azure (primary) and GCP, with working knowledge of AWS
• Own landing zone design and automation for both Azure and GCP — including organization hierarchy, resource naming standards, IAM governance, and policy enforcement
• Design and operate production-grade Kubernetes environments (AKS and GKE) including multi-tenant cluster strategies, workload identity, pod security standards, autoscaling, resiliency, cost optimization, and Helm-based application deployment
• Build and operate the GCP Project Factory for standardized, automated provisioning of GCP projects, IAM bindings, service accounts, and Git Lab integration
• Define and enforce cloud resource naming conventions, project labeling standards, and organizational tagging policies aligned with Fin Ops and cost allocation requirements

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Azure and GCP resource provisioning (AWS IaC a plus), ensuring reusable, version-controlled infrastructure
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, Cloud Build, or equivalent) for automated infrastructure and application deployment, including container build, Artifact Registry publishing, and Cloud Run / GKE delivery patterns
• Own and evolve the Ansible AWX automation platform (currently running on AKS) — develop and maintain playbooks and roles to automate system configuration, application setup, and operational workflows
• Administer and evolve the Cloud Bolt Cloud Management Platform (CMP) for multi-cloud resource provisioning, governance, cost visibility, and self-service workflows
• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Power Shell to streamline operational tasks
• Leverage AI tools including Claude to accelerate Infrastructure as Code development, runbook creation, and documentation — and help the broader team adopt these workflows effectively

• Implement and manage monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Monitor, Cloud Logging, Sig Noz, and Data Dog
• Develop and maintain runbooks and playbooks to guide incident response; perform root cause analysis (RCA) and document findings
• Respond to escalated infrastructure service desk tickets and resolve complex cloud-related issues

• Design, operate, and secure enterprise-grade secrets management using Hashi Corp Vault across cloud and hybrid environments, including Vault role management and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Implement and enforce cloud security controls across Azure (Managed Identity, Private Endpoints, NSG) and GCP (VPC Service Controls, Workload Identity, Binary Authorization, Secret Manager), including workforce and workload identity federation with external Id Ps
• Partner with the Information Security organization to identify, prioritize, and remediate cloud security vulnerabilities

• Design…