AVP, Cloud & Platform Engineering

Title : AVP, Cloud & Platform EngineeringCompany : Everest Global Services, Inc.Job Category : TechnologyJob Description : About Everest : 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 long-term 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.Job Description : 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 cloud-related 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 cost-aware end to end solutions though design trade-offs, 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 / SLO's 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 end-to-end Kubernetes infrastructure for a CI / CD pipeline will be preferred.
• Responsible for design and setting the direction of Everest Global's Cloud & infrastructure foundations operating at massive, global scale in Multi-Cloud / 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 hands-on working background to shape To view the full job description, click here>