Cloud Solutions Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect

As a cloud solutions architect, you will be embedded with a team of architects in a collaborative agile environment that encourages you to perform at your best and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions. You will be applying your knowledge of cloud services to scale and grow our existing infrastructure. We're looking for architects who enjoy being part of a growing, collaborative team, directly influencing the product and development standards, and act in weeks rather than months. Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.

Responsibilities:

• Create reusable architecture patterns.

• Continue to evaluate new technologies and update/develop standard practices.

• Design, lead, and build an automated deployment toolset and infrastructure including environments, code management, CI and CD process.

• Work closely with the software development team and other functional groups to develop and provide a robust, flexible, and scalable platform.

• Good communication skills, ability to work collaboratively with teams.

• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments, Write and maintain infrastructure documentation.

• Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.

• Influences change to standards when necessary.

• Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios.

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.

What we're looking for:

• 10 + Years of IT Experience and 5 + Years as cloud solutions architect/SRE.

• Experience working within containerized environments for micro-services and orchestration tools.

• Experience working with Hashi Corp toolset like Packer, Vault and Terraform.

• Experience in Binary management tools like Artifactory.

• Hands-on with scripting languages (Groovy, Python and Shell scripting).

• Hands-on with pipelines build tools for infrastructure.

• Understanding of configuration management for a CI/CD environment (Jenkins/Terraform).

• A philosophical approach to automate away from manual efforts.

• Experience implementing AWS dynamic auto-scaling, API Gateway, Lambda, step functions, ECS Fargate, EKS, redshift cluster, RDS flavors, Cloud Front, Data Lake use cases Glue, Athena, Kinesis and understanding of IAM policy management in AWS.

• Team player with exceptional analytical, enterprise-minded, and innovative problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must.

• Independent self-starter with a strong work ethic and ability to prioritize time and work under pressure to meet deadlines.

• Experience with container technologies ECS, ECS Fargate, Azure AKS, EKS /PCF/Docker.

• Should have strong knowledge in IAC concepts and experience with Terraform development and should have "automate everything" attitude.

• Experience on DevOps tools chain like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, blaze meter and Deployment Tools, Terraform and chef).

• Experience with configuration management tool Chef/Ansible or equivalent.

• Experience with Shell/PowerShell scripting in both Linux and Windows environments.

• Experience working with enterprise with multi-cloud strategy that includes WS/Azure/Google cloud.

• Strong experience in CI tools Jenkins/Azure DevOps or equivalent, Jenkins shared library development is a must.

• Must have expertise developing scripts with CHEF on windows and UNIX platform.

• Strong ability to do PowerShell scripting to write chef essentials scripting.

• Must be able to write chef recipes, install/deploy packages, test and deploy/manage packages.

• Experience working with continuous integration creating various SDLC/agile releases is required. Knowledge of Jenkins plugins for continuous deployment process required.

• Code management best practices such as branching, merging, and integration strategies.

• Design modular pipeline frameworks for CI/CD.

• Experience with source code version control systems (GitHub) and methodologies.

• Exceptional skill in Management and orchestrating pipelines using Jenkins.

• 2+ years of administrative proficiency on UNIX systems Linux (CentOS, or other flavor).

• Windows server 2012 administration. Deep knowledge of .NET/MSSQL/IIS.

• Experience in Release Engineering - Building, maintaining, and deploying web/SaaS applications.

• Knowledge and expertise with Vagrant desired to bridge the gaps between developments to production processes.

• Sound understanding and experience required with Packer for liaising with shared services to create appropriate image environment for various third-party customized modeling software.

• Knowledge of cloud technologies and Flyway (database deployment tool) required.

• Strong collaboration skills with the development team, production support and shared services are expected.

What our employees like most about working for Corebridge Financial Life & Retirement

• We care about your professional development. Our career progression program will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skills, strengthen your productivity and be eligible to progressively advance to positions with an increased responsibility and increased compensation.

• Our "Giving Back" policy is at the core of our daily operations and guides our future progress. Don't believe us? We put our money where our mouth is! Corebridge Financial will give you up to 16 hours a year paid time off to volunteer in the community.

• Our people are our most important asset therefore we provide a generous benefits plan and competitive pay.

Benefit package includes

• Paid Time Off Corebridge Financial recognizes the importance of work life balance). We offer 24 PTO days to start. YES, 24!
• 17 paid holidays per calendar year.
• A 401(k) Retirement Plan which will be HARD TO BEAT. Our 401K - $1 for $1 match up to 6% with immediate vesting, plus Corebridge Financial automatically contributes an additional 3% into your 401K regardless of if you enroll or not.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Corebridge Financial, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates are committed to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and its policies and procedures reflect this commitment. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories such as sexual orientation. At Corebridge Financial, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission - creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a wide variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our people are not only respected as individuals, but also truly valued for their unique perspectives.

To learn more please visit: www.corebridgefinancial.com

Corebridge Financial is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with physical or mental disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to complete any part of the application or hiring process, please send an email to TalentandInclusion@corebridgefinancial.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Functional Area:

IT - Information Technology

Estimated Travel Percentage (%): Up to 25%

Relocation Provided: No

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