Senior Cloud Engineer

About Bankwell:

Bankwell is a commercial bank with more than $3 billion in assets that serves the banking needs of businesses and individuals. At Bankwell, we pride ourselves on our unique ability to bring you high touch, high quality banking with the expertise and dedication of our experienced team of professionals. When it comes to business, our deep industry knowledge, flexibility and innovative treasury and financing services enable us to find the right solutions for our business and commercial clients. We are passionate about giving back and are actively involved with many not-for-profit organizations that help shape and improve the lives of others. We are dedicated to giving our time and talent to support the communities we serve. More about Bankwell can be found at www.mybankwell.com.

Summary of Position:

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, automating, and operating Bankwell cloud and enterprise infrastructure, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform. This senior-level role will help build and mature the Azure foundation required to support strategic modernization efforts, including AI workloads, Snowflake data platform integration, secure connectivity, identity, monitoring, compliance, and disaster recovery. The ideal candidate has deep Azure engineering experience, strong Terraform and automation skills, and the judgment to design secure, repeatable, well-documented cloud patterns in a regulated banking environment.

Responsibilities include:

Cloud Architecture, Azure Platform Engineering & Operations

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity integrations, storage, compute, monitoring, and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Azure landing zone patterns, configuration standards, naming conventions, tagging standards, and resource governance practices.
• Support Azure platform services required for AI, analytics, data engineering, Snowflake connectivity, and enterprise application modernization.
• Manage and optimize Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and on-premises integrations to ensure reliability, performance, availability, and secure access.
• Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning for cloud-hosted and hybrid services.

Terraform, Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of Terraform modules, workspaces, state management, reusable design patterns, and infrastructure deployment standards.
• Build repeatable, version-controlled provisioning pipelines using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Git, PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, and related automation tools.
• Implement peer review, change control, testing, and documentation practices for infrastructure as code changes.
• Automate routine cloud operations, configuration drift detection, tagging compliance, access reviews, monitoring, and operational reporting where practical.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned with least privilege, zero trust principles, secure configuration baselines, and Bankwell policy requirements.
• Partner with Information Security, Risk, Audit, and Compliance teams to support regulatory expectations, evidence requests, control validation, and audit readiness.
• Support Microsoft Purview, data loss prevention, records management, retention, and governance controls where they intersect with cloud and Microsoft 365 platforms.
• Design and maintain secure identity, access, RBAC, privileged access, key management, logging, alerting, and monitoring practices across Azure and related platforms.

Data Platform, AI & Snowflake Enablement

• Engineer the cloud infrastructure patterns, connectivity, identity, security groups, service principals, secrets management, and monitoring needed to support Snowflake and related data platform services.
• Support the secure deployment and operation of Azure services used for AI, automation, data movement, integration, and analytics workloads.
• Collaborate with data architecture, data engineering, information security, and vendor teams to ensure platform decisions are secure, supportable, well-documented, and aligned with Bankwell governance expectations.
• Maintain clear separation of responsibilities by owning cloud platform reliability and security while partnering with data teams that own data models, reporting logic, dashboards, and business analytics.

Operational Leadership, Support & Documentation

• Serve as a senior escalation point for cloud, identity, infrastructure, Microsoft 365, automation, and platform reliability issues.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, operational procedures, configuration records, and support documentation.
• Mentor team members on Azure, Terraform, automation, secure cloud operations, and disciplined change management practices.
• Coordinate with vendors, consultants, and internal teams to troubleshoot issues, validate technical designs, and move strategic technology initiatives forward.