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Location: Hybrid (4:1) Houston, TX - Corporate
Reports To: Head of Cloud & Platform Services
Employment Type: Full Time

Tokio Marine HCC is a leading specialty insurance group with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Ireland, and other exciting locations. With the strength and stability that comes from being a member of the Tokio Marine Group, and more than forty years of growth, profitability, and stability, we offer important insurance products that most people don’t even know exist.

Every policy we write is special, enabling our clients to do amazing things. From insuring the crops that feed us to the rock concerts that entertain us, to rescuing international travelers in trouble, we offer more than 100 classes of specialty insurance. Applying our Mind Over Risk philosophy to writing insurance allows our customers take on opportunity with confidence. That philosophy defines our way of thinking, unites us as a team, and differentiates us from our competitors.

We are much more than just an insurance company; we are a good company.

Role Overview Cloud Platform Lead is responsible for designing, deploying, and managing TMHCC’s public cloud platform for Azure hyperscaler. Enables Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC) business teams to connect the dots and evolve cloud capabilities over time. Focuses on cloud native platform developments and implementations that can support TMHCC expansion. Interfaces extensively with TMHCC business teams and supports cloud adoption. Stays current with emerging cloud technology trends and driving innovation in a collaborative, federated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for enablement, architecture, security, cost, reliability, and performance efficiency, and support of TMHCC Azure platform and services.
  • Internal platform and service provider for multiple global business units who own their workloads.
  • Enablement
    • Regularly interface with business teams, other architects, and public cloud teams to understand requirements, offer tactical and strategic guidance, and empower with cloud platform.
    • Capture and share cloud knowledge within business teams and across the company.
    • Known as the subject matter expert for Azure hyperscaler.
    • Plan and coordinate platform delivery and dependencies across multiple business teams.
  • Security
    • Realize security guardrails per Security team mandated policies and benchmarks.
    • Offer transparency on guardrail compliance for stakeholders.
    • Implement least privileges model for public cloud.
  • Reliability
    • Offer cloud platform that is resilient across multiple regions.
    • Implement real-time network monitoring and alerting.
    • Offer centralized logging for cloud platform.
  • Cost
    • Ensure that 100% of monthly public cloud bills are reconciled and allocated.
    • Improve transparency with tagging of significant cost causing cloud services.
    • In partnership with business teams, achieve cost savings via purchase of savings plans.
  • Performance Efficiency
    • Offer cloud platform globally in minutes.
    • Promote cloud native serverless architectures.
    • Continually reduce technology debt by upgrading tech stack to supported versions.
  • Operational Excellence
    • Automate the cloud platform and all cloud team-initiated changes/operations as code.
    • Refine operations procedures frequently (e.g., game days).
    • Drive improvement through lessons learned from all operational events and failures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Business Administration
• Azure Expert level certifications
• Hashi Corp Terraform

Skills & Experience

Cloud Landing Zone

• Demonstrated ability in designing, building, and automating Azure landing zones for efficient cloud deployments.
• Proven expertise in Fin Ops practices, including resource tagging, cost allocation, and cloud financial management.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of various cloud application architectures, contributing to the development of cloud platform services that support a wide range of applications.

Strong Troubleshooting and Platform Support

• In-depth understanding of Azure App Service Environment (ASE) and…