Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer - Applied Systems

Job Description

Amazing Career Moments Happen Here

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.

The Role at a Glance

Role: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Team: Corporate IT

Location: Remote

Opportunity for Impact

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

What You’ll Do

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• 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 GitLab integration
• Define and enforce cloud resource naming conventions, project labeling standards, and organizational tagging policies aligned with FinOps and cost allocation requirements

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• 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 (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, 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
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