MetLife Legal Plans is headquartered in Cleveland, OH, but our engineering team is remote by default, so you can work from anywhere in the U.S. The team gets together in person each year, though people who live near each other will often meet up more frequently.

A day in the life of an Azure Cloud Engineer at MetLife Legal Plans:

We are looking for resourceful engineers to join our DevOps Team. The team’s mission is to build foundational components for rapidly delivering robust cloud services. We strive to learn and understand the collective needs of the technology team so that we can foster innovation, community, and growth.

Our team focuses on building tools that empower all engineers (including ourselves) to run operationally excellent services. Our strategy is to provide self-service solutions and prefer to teach others how to be self-sufficient whenever possible.

We utilize cutting-edge tools and services like CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Fargate, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Azure, and AWS to build resilient and scalable platforms that accommodate our rapid growth. As a DevOps Engineer, you will have ownership of technology decisions and solutions while pivotal in establishing a thriving engineering culture.

Our technology team is a tight-knit group that is passionate about user happiness, security, automation, and open-source software. We value attitude and work ethic above technical credentials. Building new technology is a messy business, so you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, unstructured

environment.

What you’ll do:

Collaborate with engineers throughout MLP to ensure we are using best practices to build scalable, secure, and operationally sound systems.
Work with the DevOps team to define OKRs for our goals and quantitatively measure progress against those targets.
Problem-solving and unblocking teams using our internal tools.
Automate routine cloud deployment, administration, and monitoring tasks.
Work with teams to migrate/refactor monolithic applications to microservices in the the cloud.
Plan for the growth of MLP’s infrastructure.
Develop and maintain Cloud reference architecture and design documents.

Requirements:

Experience with Azure cloud technologies including backup and restore, ASR, Network, NSG, troubleshooting, and operational logging, NSG, Gateway, Firewalls, Subnets, Vnets. Knowledge of azure security constructs, CLI, PowerShell, ARM.
Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
Azure Administrator and Azure Architect certification.
Experience with build and support of Azure cloud deployments.
Operational support of Azure Solutions deployed to the cloud.
Experience with networking, especially connecting Azure to on-premise networks and AWS.
Proficiency in scripting in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, Go, and/or others.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as CodePipeline, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Sumologic, Kibana.

Travel

This position requires up to 10% travel.

Anticipated application close date is 9/21. This job was posted on 8/25 and is expected to close within 27 days from the posting date.

Benefits snapshot.

Two Healthcare Insurance options (Traditional PPO or HSA with employer contribution)
Dental and Vision Insurance
401(k) plan with company contribution and free access to financial advisors
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) program with 23-39 days annually based on years of service, plus prorated PTO for new hires*
Free Aura® Identity Theft & Fraud Protection
Free access to the MetLife Legal Plans benefit
Company-paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
Corporate discounts
Market-competitive salaries with annual bonus eligibility
Nine company-paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Parking or RTA subsidy for Cleveland employees
Pet Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement Program
Voluntary Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
Volunteer Day
Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Financial wellness tools, education, and coaching
PTO is prorated during an employee's first year of employment based on their hire date. Employees hired in the first quarter of the year receive 18 days of PTO, those hired in the second quarter receive 16 days, employees hired in the third quarter receive 9 days, and those hired in the fourth quarter receive 7 days. PTO is awarded at the time of hire and then moves to the standard annual accrual schedule beginning January 1 of the following year

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the associate in this position. Associates will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the skills, aptitude and ability to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship.

MetLife Legal Plans is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at mlprecruiting@legalplans.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.

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