Lead Cloud Architect

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries and territories Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance personal accident and supplemental health insurance reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is defined by its extensive product and service offerings broad distribution capabilities exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb employs approximately 40000 people worldwide.

Chubb launched its third Engineering Center in Thessaloniki in 2022. Our rapidly expanding new Chubb Engineering Center in Greece (CECG) is integrated with the Engineering Centers in India and Mexico to support our global technology needs and digital business transformation as well as the companys operations in the Europe - Middle East - Africa region operating in 27 countries.

Chubb is a leading underwriting company. We assess assume and manage risk with insight and discipline. Chubb has embarked on a transformation journey to enhance our underwriting capabilities and develop into a leading Underwriting Engineering and Data Analytics company. Cloud Platform is one of the key enablers for digital transformation. As part of the continued transformation Chubb is increasing the pace of application transformation into containers and cloud adoption.

As such we are seeking an experience cloud architect who can be part of this exciting journey at Chubb. As an experience hands on cloud architect you will be responsible for both Infrastructure automation design and container platform design at Chubb. A successful candidate would have hands-on experience of container platforms (Kubernetes) Cloud Platforms(Azure/GCP) and experience with application architecture best practices for cloud and Infrastructure as code.

Successful candidate will also have opportunity to build and innovate solutions around various Infrastructure problems right from developer experience to operational excellence across the services provided by the cloud engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for right leader to steer the product capabilities as Chubb Embarks on building its new GCP platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide Leadership to build and execute on the Chubbs Cloud strategy. Present to Senior stakeholders and executive on the Roadmap and progress of cloud transformation
• Work on the cloud transformation projects across Chubb and provide architectural guidance to application team
• Work with cloud engineering team to design and implement right Cloud patterns including resiliency and performance best practices
• Make sure application teams are following Cloud Adoption Framework and designing apps with current Chubb Standards
• Come up with design specification of new cloud services based on requirements coming from application teams and work with Engineering to build self services around it
• Accountable for automation and self-service capabilities using CI/CD pipelines for Infrastructure
• Build Operational capabilities around the Cloud platform for Operations team and guide them on the new services and capabilities coming out of engineering
• Document and Design controls and governance policies around Azure platform and automate deployments of the security policies in collaboration with security teams
• Manage the end user collaboration conduct regular sessions to educate Application users on services and automation capabilities and Chubb best practices
• Attend escalations from support teams and provide assistance during major production issues from an engineering prospective
• Assess the current application maturity with regards to cloud native architecture and direct them towards cloud native migration pattern
• Lead Cost management and optimization initiative with application teams to optimize and build right cost model for applications
  

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer science Computer Engineering Information Technology or relevant field
• Minimum of 15 year experience in IT automation with 4 years supporting Azure/GCP based cloud services and 2 years of Kubernetes and Docker
• Relevant Azure/GCP Certification will be considered a plus
• Experience with large cloud transformation projects preferably in GCP
• Extensive experience with cloud platform mainly Azure/GCP. Worked on design of IAM/Security/Monitoring and Network Design of Cloud Infrastructure
• Writing Infrastructure as code and pipelines preferably using terraform ansible Bash and Jenkins and provide test automation
• Ability to work in both windows and Linux environment with Containers platform such as Kubernetes AKS EKS
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK and Prometheus and change management tool such as ServiceNow

Our team makes the difference every time. For this reason we offer in return!

We offer hybrid working model explicit structured career development a competitive salary package annual bonus long term equity incentives private medical cover monthly allowance for lunch generous personal time off continuous learning experiences and work in a fun lively environment with mentoring from our groundbreaking senior mentors.

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Our core values instruct how we live and work. Were an ethical and honest company thats wholly committed to its clients. A business thats engaged in mutual trust and respect for its employees and partners. A place where colleagues perform at the highest levels. And a working environment thats collaborative and encouraging.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Chubb we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues candidates clients and business partners with equality fairness and respect regardless of their age disability race religion or belief gender sexual orientation marital status or family circumstances. We earnestly strive to achieve an environment where all colleagues feel comfortable to perform to their full potential and are recognized for their contributions.

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