Senior Cloud Engineer

Global Atlantic is a leading provider of retirement security and investment solutions with operations in the U.S., Bermuda, and Japan. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR (NYSE: KKR), a leading global investment firm, Global Atlantic combines deep insurance expertise with KKR’s powerful investment capabilities to deliver long-term financial security for millions of individuals worldwide. With a broad suite of annuity, preneed life insurance, reinsurance, and investment solutions, Global Atlantic, through its issuing companies, helps people achieve their financial goals with confidence.

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Global Atlantic Financial Company (a subsidiary of Global Atlantic Financial Group Limited) is seeking a candidate for the position of Senior Cloud Engineer in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Centralized cloud engineering and operational team member focused on operating AWS cloud, assisting teams in Dev Ops activities, and management of a self-service cloud platform.
• Deliver cloud services and/or infrastructure in alignment with target architecture.
• Design, deploy, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Accountable for operational monitoring, management, incident escalation, and reporting functions.
• Serve as technical project manager for various projects.
• Optimize performance and capacity and ensure proper resource management regardless of the platform used or infrastructure location.
• Implement best practices for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Auto Scaling and VPC.
• Manage cloud networking including VPCs, Security Groups, Route 53, Route Tables, Transit Gateways.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Set-up and manage Git Lab/Git Hub repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and version control best practices.
• Automate software development process using Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions and AWS Code Pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and optimize workflows for containerized applications (Docker, ECS).
• Deploy, scale, and manage containerized workloads using Docker, ECS with EC2.
• Manage and configure JFrog artifactory for artifact storage, retrieval and versioning. Automate artifact publishing and retrieval in CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure, manage and optimize Druva backup solutions for AWS workloads.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Powershell to streamline cloud operations and deployments.
• Partner with Information Security Risk Management and Security Operations on the building and maintenance of cloud workloads to ensure initial and on‑going compliance with security guidance and best practices.
• Oversee patching and vulnerability remediation activities as part of Vulnerability Remediation as a Service (VRaaS) function and ensure performance of same.
• Perform cost planning, monitoring, management, and reporting to maintain transparency and proper metering.
• Manage and maintain shared infrastructure and Dev Ops tooling, such as Git Lab, AWS Code Pipeline, Saltstack, Artifactory, Sonarqube, New Relic, and Cloud Health.
• Provide Dev Ops expertise and coaching related to deploying and configuring IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) resources.
• Lend Dev Ops capacity to projects and other initiatives across the IT landscape.
• Participate in the selection of, manage and partner with cloud vendors for the purpose of providing redundancy and cloud operations capacity.
• Aid the Cloud Architect in assessing projects for approval and implementation based on predefined architecture standards.
• Create, manage, and prioritize a backlog of work, including requests for assistance, remediation work, and operational tasks.
• Meet service level agreements made to business teams and ensure proper disaster recovery processes and risk mitigation.
• Work across traditional technology infrastructure and cloud computing environments.

Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Applied Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related computational and analytical field, plus five (5) years of experience in an IT related role.

Prior experience must include 3 years with the following:

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