Cloud Engineer – Velogica

Job Summary

This role supports the growing Underwriting Innovations cloud environment primarily through coordination with third party service providers and internal stakeholders and through direct involvement in deploying and maintaining solutions used to meet business objectives.  Skills and experience in cloud architecture and programming combined with an ability to help achieve business outcomes with technical solutions make this a role that prepare us well for our digital future.

-Key duties and responsibilities

• In coordination with senior team members or within an appropriate range of discretion, design, develop and maintain standards, best practices, and accompanying tooling, for the services and infrastructure which support the Underwriting Innovations environment (including Velogica).
• Identify, propose, and implement opportunities to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and security of delivery solutions.  Facilitate communication and knowledge sharing of those opportunities between the relevant teams.
• Leverage automation and repeatable “Infrastructure as code” (for example, creating and versioning CloudFormation templates for building out Velogica environments based on the requirements of the Infrastructure team).
• Support the needs of Underwriting Innovation department, including:
  • Design and implement managed infrastructure changes required by project work.
  • Review, approve and execute high level and detailed technical plans.
  • Provide back up support for architectural reviews and code reviews as necessary.
• Responsible for participating in production support rotation coverage in coordination with 3rd party support provider (including availability to support early Sunday morning patching schedule).
• Foster and participate in a culture of continuous improvement and psychological safety.
• Adhere to all Information Security policies and best practices, including security awareness training and other information protection initiatives.
• Create and maintain process documentation as required.
• Participate in audit evidence gathering.

–Required experience & competencies

Experience:

• 3 years of experience working with AWS cloud technologies, experience plus an Amazon certification is preferred

• A broad understanding of IT infrastructure concepts, with a focus on experience with the following technical skills:
  • Use and management of common AWS services, such as EC2, S3, Route53, VPC, & RDS
  • Linux operating systems
  • Security design & implementation concepts
• Experience programming or scripting in languages such as Python, shell, Java
• Demonstrated ability to concurrently participate in multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to use skillsets to translate business needs into technical solutions.  

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Personal Competencies:

• Problem Solving – Identifies and analyses issues, proposes and rolls out relevant solutions after appropriate approvals.
• Communication – Knows how and when to develop/sustain a message and/or an idea (speaking and writing), uses the right tools to present information.
• Resilience – Demonstrates an ability to step back when facing difficult situations and to bounce back after a failure.
• Decision Making – Makes decisions within an appropriate scope and/or rolls out the decisions considering all available information.
• Accountability – Alerts, raises the critical points when needed, shoulders and corrects his/her decisions and shows responsibility regarding cost management.
• Commitment – Makes effort to bring his/her skills and uses his/her expertise to contribute to the success of the Group.
• Curiosity – Demonstrates an appetite for learning and developing his/her-self in his/her field of expertise; can develop new practices and methods in relation with his/her day-to-day work.
• Commitment – Makes effort to bring his/her skills and uses his/her expertise to contribute to the success of the Group.

Digital Competencies:

• Ability to employ information: identify, recognize, record and store digital information to facilitate retrieval and use
• Ability to access information: locate, select and retrieve digital information
• Ability to turn information into business insights, analyze trends and how to compare or combine relevant data sets
• Apply security measures in digital environments: protect hardware, software applications, data and personal information
• Ability to create information: generate new digital content and knowledge by organizing, integrating, adapting and applying digital information
• Ability to learn new technologies and concepts to adapt to rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to identify and assess accurate sources of information

-Required Education

• BS/BA technical degree or equivalent experience
• AWS Certification in addition preferred