Principal Architect, Cloud Services - Bangsar, Malaysia - RGA

RGA

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Bangsar, Malaysia

1 week ago

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Siti Tan

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Description

Position Overview

The Principal Architect contributes to RGA's culture of innovation by providing architecture, design and leadership to enable RGA to effectively scale their shared service public cloud infrastructure.

Leads a team of cloud engineers by setting architectural standards and making sure RGA infrastructure can provide secure, resilient, highly available, scalable and performant service offerings for its internal customer base.

This is a technically skilled, advanced role that requires extensive knowledge in architecture, design, build across networking, compute, storage, infrastructure as code technologies, configuration management, high availability design, disaster recovery, and public cloud services.

Responsibilities

Coordinates or leads creation of architectural framework for Cloud servers, hardware, peripherals, and connections. Implement RGA standards and guidelines.
Responsible for architecting and maintaining DevOps standards and best practice across RGA infrastructure.
Provides guidance and recommendations to RGAwide architects in terms of cloud technologies, trends and best practice for solving complex IT problems
Provides regular team and individual status, operational, incident, and change reports.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements Education**Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience

Preferred

AWS Practitioner Certificate

Experience
Required

10+ years' experience performing IT related roles
Must possess an advanced engineering and architectural design knowledge of Public Cloud Services including: Monitoring, Access, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Configuration, and Database services
Experience designing, developing, deploying, and testing public cloud architecture
Support the planning of system deployment and infra configuration to meet industry and corporate compliance standards.
Evaluate operational requirements and provide expertise in the use of cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment.
Solid background and understanding of SQL and NoSql data stores
Strong leadership skills, team oriented and ability to lead highly skilled cloud ops engineers
Strong background in Information Security and compliance controls
Strong knowledge of cloud cost management and optimization of cloud infrastructure
Must have extensive background in the mentoring and directing of technical staff

Preferred

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

Technical Requirements
Required

Advanced knowledge and experienced in infrastructure for cloud platforms using technologies like Terraform, Cloud Formation, NFS, SAN, Docker, Consul, Vault, Docker Orchestration tools, and CI/CD(Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Experienced 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'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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Job Reference:
AS02880