Cloud Engineer

Description:

Securian is looking for a Cloud Engineer who is passionate about delivering high quality products, services, and capabilities for our internal engineering and app development-oriented customers. This role is part of the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platforms organization within the Enterprise Technology division. We provide offerings for application hosting, deployment, and observability, CI/CD pipelines, API management, local desktop development, and Securian's AWS cloud. Our mission includes:

Leveraging a customer-centric mindset towards providing high-quality offerings for engineers and developers throughout the enterprise

Creating dynamic and scalable solutions through automation, infrastructure as code, and self-service capabilities Ensuring our solutions are designed, engineered, and operate safely, securely, and effectively Providing education, consulting, and collaborative engagement with other teams throughout Enterprise Technology Promoting practices and behaviors around engineering excellence, DevOps, automation/infrastructure as code, optimization, and modernization

For this role, the Cloud Engineer will be part of the team responsible for Securian's application hosting, observability, and API management technologies and services. You will help design, engineer, improve, and maintain these capabilities in alignment with our enterprise goals and plans, operating safely, securely, and effectively through automation, self-service, and optimization. Cloud Engineers also provide consulting and education on our capabilities for engineers, developers, architects, and leaders throughout Enterprise Technology as well as our Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Design, engineer, and support solutions for Securian's application hosting, API management, observability, and portions of our AWS and Azure cloud environments.

Create innovative solutions leveraging automation and self-service capabilities, focusing on providing a good experience for our internal engineers and developers while meeting requirements for operating safely, securely, and effectively.

Collaborate and partner with other technology teams, cybersecurity, and governance/risk/compliance teams to ensure capabilities continue to meet requirements throughout their lifecycle.

Provide consulting and education on our capabilities for other engineers, developers, architects, and leadership throughout Enterprise Technology.

Identify, analyze, and mitigate vulnerabilities, leveraging automation and modernization to minimize or tackle technical debt.

Define, document, and share best practices, guardrails, standards, and guidelines for our capabilities.

Seek feedback from engineers and developers on the quality and experience of our capabilities, use the feedback towards improvements and future feature releases.

Participate in an on-call rotation for troubleshooting incidents, identifying root causes, fixing problems, documenting and communicating changes, and implementing preventive measures.

What we expect from you:

Analytical mindset and ability to think creatively about solutions and problem solving.

Experience with AWS services for application hosting, monitoring, networking, storage, security, configuration, and other common services.

Experience leveraging infrastructure as code to create and manage solutions in AWS, including Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.

Preferred experience with technologies such as Kong, Dynatrace, Tomcat, Puppet, Apache, or similar.

Preferred Experience With Software Engineering Methodologies And Practices.

Knowledge of web application hosting and integration concepts and technologies.

Knowledge of Observability concepts, capabilities, and best practices.

Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, adapt to changes in priorities according to business needs, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

Ability and willingness to mentor and coach other Securian associates,

Actively owns continuous self-improvement, identifies and pursues opportunities for personal growth.

Ability to establish and grow working relationships with key technology and business partner teams and leaders.

Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail and accuracy