Senior Engineer, Cloud Services

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Supports the global design, implementation, and maintenance of public cloud infrastructure. Builds and maintains cloud environments to enable RGA to scale their shared service public cloud infrastructure. This role will provide technical engineering and system administration to build resilient cloud infrastructure that leverages cloud-native capabilities including auto-scaling and automated management. This is a technically skilled role that requires knowledge in public cloud build across networking, compute, and storage, infrastructure as code technologies, configuration management, high availability design, disaster recover, and public cloud services. Solves complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions. Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information. Individual contributor who works on highly complex problems, tasks, or projects.

Principal Duties:

• Coordinates the design, development, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, network, and layout.

• Build and maintain public cloud platform infrastructure as code services

• Responsible for public cloud infrastructure in terms of non-functional requirements like security, availability, and reliability.

• Will collaborate with other areas to make certain infrastructure components are compliant to RGA security policies.

• Responsible for executing DevOps standards and best practice across RGA infrastructure

• Proactively maintains a broad knowledge of cloud engineering trends and technology advancements

• Monitors and improves Cloud system uptime, performance, high availability and disaster recovery readiness Provides regular status, operational, incident, and change reports.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)

Work Experience:

• 8+ Years experience performing IT related roles

• 3+ Years of hands-on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on public cloud services

Licenses and Certifications:

CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Skills and Abilities:

• Must possess an advanced engineering knowledge of Public Cloud Services including: Monitoring, Access, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Configuration, and Database services required

• Experience designing, developing, deploying, testing in public cloud architecture required

• Research, design, analyze, and modify Cloud-based Enterprise-wide systems and application software. required

• Support the planning of system deployment and infra configuration to meet industry and corporate compliance standards.

• Evaluate operational requirements and provide solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. required Solid background and understanding of SQL and NoSql data stores required

• Team oriented and ability to collaborate effectively with highly skilled cloud ops engineers. Some experience in agile methodologies. required

• Experience in application development for cloud platforms using technologies like Grails, Angular frameworks, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring, Micro Services, REST, NodeJS and others required

• Knowledge and experience in infrastructure for cloud platforms using technologies like Terraform, Cloud Formation, NFS, SAN, Docker, Consul, Vault, Docker Orchestration tools, and CI/CD (Jenkins, Spinnaker) required

• Experience in using build and deployment tools like Maven, Gradle, Shell Scripts, Powershell etc. required Experience with programming and infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform, AWSCLI, Ansibul, Python, Shell, Java, and JSON).

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range:

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.