Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer

Jackson National Life Insurance Company - Lansing, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Lansing, MI

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About the position

The Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer is responsible for designing and engineering enterprise solutions that align with the company's architecture patterns and security guidelines. This role involves collaborating with various departments to improve existing software systems, synthesize data, and enhance productivity. The engineer will balance complex project aspects such as security, architecture, and system dynamics while leveraging cross-functional skills in operating systems, databases, networking, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designs and engineers solutions that align to architecture patterns and security guidelines for data, compute and technology platforms.
• Works in partnership with business product owners and DevSecOps to design, engineer and deliver mature scalable and robust business capabilities.
• Collaborate with IT architecture and IT operations to identify and implement optimal engineering solutions for the company.
• Leads engineering and planning initiatives related to capabilities, future roadmaps, operations, and strategic planning.
• Designs and engineers business and technology innovation that drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
• Stays current with industry trends, making recommendations of new technologies that deliver strategic business value and reduce costs.
• Designs and engineers architecture solutions that maximize reuse and are efficient, maintainable, scalable, stable, highly available, portable, secure, and implemented correctly.
• Provides engineering consulting services within domain to help achieve desired business and operational outcomes across Jackson.
• Promotes quality by performing code reviews, developing and enforcing coding standards, recognizing system deficiencies, and implementing effective solutions coaching other team members in this domain.
• Conducts tech talks and provides guidance to the Software Engineering Community of Practice (SE CoP).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent education or experience required.
• 5+ years related IT experience required.
• Knowledge of industry standards, emerging technologies; and security and system best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation creation and delivery.
• Experience with the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to guide task prioritization to meet project deadlines.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to build high performance teams, influencing across all levels in the organization.
• Ability to learn and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Jackson's business and technology.
• Demonstrated record of successful, complex project completion with minimal supervision including skills in design, requirement gathering, project planning, prioritization, coordination, multi-tasking, and problem solving.
• High level understanding of Project Management tools, techniques and methodologies including Lean, Agile, and/or SAFe.

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications in public cloud technologies preferred.
• 3+ years in IT infrastructure/operations role preferred.
• At least one current certification in public cloud technologies including: Azure Developer/Administrator/Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification, and/or OpenStack Administrator Certification preferred.
• CISSP Preferred.