Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Do you have deep technical expertise in Microsoft Azure, strong infrastructure architecture experience, and a track record of leading engineering teams in a global enterprise environment? This could be a fantastic chance to create secure, scalable public-cloud services while helping build Aon’s cloud strategy and operating standards!

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What the day will look like

The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be primarily accountable for the design and architecture of Aon’s public-cloud infrastructure services, with a main focus on Microsoft Azure. This position will serve as a technical leader with vision, solution visionary, and subject-matter expert for Azure cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, automation, security, resilience, and operational performance.

Key responsibilities include:

Serve as the primary designer and architect for Microsoft Azure enterprise cloud systems and infrastructure services.

Design secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable cloud solutions that address the differing requirements of business areas, technology teams, and internal customers.

Lead engineering activities involving Azure virtual networks, subscription management, storage services, image creation and maintenance, backup and disaster recovery, Network Security Groups, role-based access controls, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Automation, monitoring, and logging.

Lead and develop a small team of cloud engineering professionals, establish priorities, assign work, and drive measurable results across programs and projects.

Provide leadership to project teams and facilitate the definition of cloud-related objectives, work you're doing, technical standards, and implementation methods.

Partner with technology leadership, security teams, business collaborators, and external service providers to advance Aon cloud initiatives. Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.

Translate complex functional requirements into detailed technical designs for enterprise cloud architecture, infrastructure services, security, and operational support.

Review technical designs developed by other team members. Provide recommendations, guidance, and quality assurance.

Research business and technology challenges and develop cloud solution pathways consistent with Aon’s architecture, security, risk, and operational requirements.

Develop and implement cloud infrastructure through automation, scripting, infrastructure as code, and repeatable engineering practices.

Establish performance baselines and monitoring standards for cloud resources, network traffic, security controls, system availability, and capacity.

Find opportunities to improve cloud performance, reliability, security, automation, cost management, and operational efficiency.

Define tracking mechanisms and ensure applicable technology standards, engineering methods, documentation requirements, and project controls are followed.

Handle expectations and project scope, report status appropriately, address risks and issues, and deliver high-quality results.

Maintain current support documentation, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, technical standards, and process documentation. Serve in a technical advisory role for cloud engineering teams and internal technical collaborators.

Share cloud engineering practices, lessons learned, technical knowledge, and implementation standards across internal and external teams.

Help establish effective team norms, processes, and operating practices and ensure that they are consistently followed.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Ten years’ experience or longer in IT infrastructure, cloud, or technology operations within a large, complex, or global enterprise environment.
• Two or more years of hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering or architecture experience.
• People management or team leadership experience, including skills in prioritizing, managing performance, mentoring colleagues, and achieving results.
• Strong experience designing and supporting Azure infrastructure services. This includes virtual networks, subscriptions, storage, virtual-machine images, backup and disaster recovery. Also Network Security Groups, role-based access controls, identity services, automation, monitoring, and logging.
• Demonstrated experience with PowerShell and infrastructure-as-code technologies, including Azure Resource Manager templates. Experience with Bicep or Terraform is preferred.
• Experience with scripting, automation, Infrastructure as a Service, and Platform as a Service solutions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, identity and access management, privileged access, and cloud-security controls.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient cloud services, including backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity management, and performance monitoring.
• Ability to translate business and functional requirements into detailed cloud architecture and technical design documentation.
• Experience leading cloud-related programs or projects and managing scope, risks, dependencies, work progress, and collaborator expectations.
• Strong written and verbal skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineering teams, technology leaders, business partners, and third-party providers.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global environment and collaborate across cloud engineering, infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, architecture, application, and business teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.
• Dedication to maintaining current technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture standards, and support materials.

Preferred experience

Microsoft Azure architecture, administration, networking, security, or DevOps certification. Experience with Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure DevOps, or GitHub. Experience with additional public-cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud.

Experience implementing cloud governance, cost-management, tagging, policy, security, and configuration-management standards.

Experience supporting cloud services across multiple geographic regions in a regulated global enterprise.

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $135,000-$150,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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