Senior Engineer, Cloud Services

RGA•Creve Coeur, MO

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent related work experience required
8+ Years experience performing IT related roles required
3+ Years of hands-on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on public cloud services required
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). required

Nice To Haves

CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Preferred

Responsibilities

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.