AVP Cloud Platform Engineering
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Title:
AVP Cloud & Platform EngineeringCompany:
Everest Global Services Inc.Job Category:
TechnologyJob Description:
Everest Group Ltd. (Everest) is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in North America Latin America the UK & Ireland Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating longterm value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities a strong balance sheet and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs mentoring opportunities flexible work arrangements and Colleague Resource Groups.
The desired candidate will be responsible for Architecting Cloud based platforms & Business solutions. As a cloud architect this candidate will provide leadership and guidance around architectural best practices that help elevate Cost Optimization as a pillar of all solutions deployed to cloud. This candidate will provide change leadership for cloudrelated transformation by developing Policies Guidelines and Guardrails standards and recommendations for application & platform solutions being deployed in cloud. This candidate must inspire a new culture across Everest Global and resist the urge to execute business as usual by pushing the organization through thought leadership to correctly and effectively incorporate cloud computing. Exposure to working as an SRE implementing costaware end to end solutions though design tradeoffs autoscaling and performance engineering will be preferred.
Roles &Responsibilities
- Responsible to work with Enterprise/Solution Architecture to design Cloud based Infrastructure architecture with detailed infrastructure architecture cloud security end to end flow & deployment strategy in different environments including DevSecOps pipelines/Monitoring & Observability/SLOs incorporating Reliability needs of the applications. Represent cloud Engineering team at different architecture working groups.
- Work closely with Cloud Engineering team to develop and implement Infrastructure Build Automation through DevSecOps pipelines Infrastructure as Code Reusable Patterns/Templates in Multi cloud platform with Terraform.
- Responsible for architecting and Engineering Messaging/Integration solutions like ESB Confluent with hands on experience with Kafka brokers Schema Registry KSQL DB and transformations using KSQL DB experience with Connectors and integrating DevSecOps pipelines to configure Kafka client manage Topics.
- Responsible for design implementation and deployment of APIs using the latest technologies and best practices. Implement API management using API management software (like APIM APIC) to include API proxies mashups rate limiting security analytics monetization token management and developer portals.
- Responsible for implementing design patterns for distributed systems configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines including designing and deploying applications to run on Kubernetes/AKS. Experience in architecting installing implementing and administering a complete endtoend Kubernetes infrastructure for a CI/CD pipeline will be preferred.
- Responsible for design and setting the direction of Everest Globals Cloud & infrastructure foundations operating at massive global scale in MultiCloud / Public cloud environments (Azure/Oracle/GCP/AWS Primary focus being Azure) integrating with several SaaS providers like Guidewire/Databricks/Dynatrace/Workday/ Collibra/Office 365/Zscaler/CyberArk/Confluent/ADO/.
- Have strong working knowledge of foundational infrastructure service engineering and operations like VNET Subnetting Network Security Groups Subscriptions Resource groups WAF Fine Grained access control IAM Virtualization DNS Networking within cloud & between Cloud providers Load balancing Authentication with ADFS Logging and Tracing Cloud Cost Management using Cloudability Governance & usage of Azure managed services reusable patterns & frameworks Kubernetes & Containers.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices & automation CI/CD pipelines and integration of DevOps pipelines.
- Responsible for Cloud Security & Governance in a distributed cloud environment while sharing common service and providing guidance to application and solution architects.
- Innovate and lead/inspire Cloud & DevOps engineers Development teams with prior handson working background to shape every aspect of Everest Global Cloud & DevOps implementations.
- Leverage direct and indirect relationships to influence and engage peers and senior leaders on Everest Global s cloud best practices & use of IaaS/SaaS & PaaS solutions.
- Define and drive the strategy direction and of our cloud computing initiatives in both private and public cloud.
- Build and lead a highperforming team of cloud experts providing guidance mentorship and professional development opportunities.
- Establish and maintain operational standards and processes Cloud cost management & governance including monitoring alerting and incident response.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key vendors and partners ensuring we have access to the latest cloud technologies and services.
- Stay uptodate with the latest trends and developments in cloud computing bringing new ideas and technologies to the team.
- Responsible for driving applications teams to consensus on infrastructure designs patterns best practices and implementation methods that are enterprise adopted.
- Responsible for providing expertise and requirements to colleagues across the company who are building applications platforms security and database applications and frameworks.
Work Experience and Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in Platform Management infrastructure management & design architectural leadership with experience is building platforms and reusable patterns and frameworks.
- Experience in building foundational infrastructure capabilities like AD/DNS/NTP/IAM/Load Balancing/DevOps & Configuration management.
- Hands on Experience in developing & implementing Infrastructure as code (IaaC) deploying Cloud managed services through IaaC implementing resiliency within & across regions clustering building Kubernetes platforms and deploying applications to Kubernetes through pipelines with full automation.(security scanning/logging/tracing/secrets management/connection management/control gates & integration with API gateways/Messaging queues)
- Experience in financial services compliance regulatory governance auditing budgeting & cost management.
- Experience in leading largescale cloud projects from design to implementation and maintenance migration.
- Experience in building teams upskilling attract develop retain and motivate toptier talent.
Our Culture
At Everest our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive fuel global economies and create sustainable value for our colleagues shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Clickhereto learn more about our culture.
- Our Valuesare the guiding principles that inform our decisions actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. . Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
- Our Colleague Behaviorsdefine how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.
All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues and the global communities we serve.
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Type:
RegularTime Type:
Full timePrimary Location:
Warren NJAdditional Locations:
Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or creed sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin or ancestry citizenship genetics physical or mental disability age marital status civil union status family or parental status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact Everest Benefits at
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