Reinsurance Group Of America

Position Overview

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.

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
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience

Experience

Required

• 8+ years’ experience performing IT related roles
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on public cloud services
• Must possess an advanced engineering knowledge of Public Cloud Services including: Monitoring, Access, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Configuration, and Database services
• Experience designing, developing, deploying, testing in public cloud architecture
• Research, design, analyze, and modify Cloud-based Enterprise-wide systems and application software
• 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
• Solid background and understanding of SQL and NoSql data stores
• Team oriented and ability to collaborate effectively with highly skilled cloud ops engineers
• Some background in Information Security and compliance controls
• Some experience in agile methodologies

Preferred

• Cloud Architecture or SysOps Associate or Professional certifications
• Certification as an Information Security Professional (CISSP)
• Insurance Industry knowledge

Technical Requirements

• Experience in application development for cloud platforms using technologies like Grails, Angular frameworks, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring, Micro Services, REST, NodeJS and others
• 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)
• Experience in using build and deployment tools like Maven, Gradle, Shell Scripts, Powershell etc.
• Experience with programming and infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform, AWSCLI, Ansibul, Python, Shell, Java, and JSON).

Company Overview

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), a Fortune 500 company, is a global industry leader specializing in life and health reinsurance and financial solutions that help clients effectively manage risk and optimize capital. Founded in 1973, RGA celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, and operations around the world, RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, health reinsurance, facultative underwriting, product development, and financial solutions.

RGA has been named to Fortune magazine’s 2023 list of the World’s Most Admired Companies, an acknowledgement that reflects our legacy of innovation, dedicated client focus, community responsibility, commitment to diversity, and long-term value creation. RGA has approximately $3.3 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $82.7 billion as of September 30, 2022. To learn more about RGA and its businesses, visit www.rgare.com.

RGA’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

RGA aims to evolve RGA workplaces and the communities in which RGA has a presence, into more diverse, equitable and inclusive environments. We will create a culture where individuals are valued, feel a sense of belonging, and are respected for their differences – a workplace where all employees are encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.

Our individual, social, economic, and cultural identities shape and influence our experiences and perspectives. Therefore, to do our best work RGA will ensure diversity in our workforce across the various dimensions of social, interpersonal, and cultural identity – and by practicing inclusivity in how we work with one another. Inclusion in our workplace is a step towards our purpose of making financial protection accessible to all.

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