Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and maintaining our multi-cloud platform that facilitates infrastructure provisioning and deployment of our solutions. You will become part of a global team of cloud engineers that strives to be on the cutting edge of cloud innovations.

This job has a broad remit encompassing – but not limited to – the work areas below:

 

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain modular cloud-based systems using cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes

• Implement optimal cloud solutions for the platform to fulfill requirements set by the PO (architecture, storage & compute services, cost monitoring and optimization, role management) 

• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues 

• Audit cloud infrastructure and make continuous recommendations for improvements

• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify improvements/extensions needed for our multi-cloud platform

• Maintain a good working relationship with the colleagues in our multi-national team and global stakeholders

• Keep organized on tools such as Confluence to ensure business continuity.

• Receive, process and document feedback from stakeholders and development teams to continuously improve our infrastructure.

The successful candidate for this job will be enthusiastic about the responsibilities above, and will have a skillset which complements the job well, including:

 

• Experience working on open-source projects

• Experience with container technologies like Docker 

• Experience with Kubernetes on topics such as:

  • Ability to manage application deployment on a K8S platform (pods, worker nodes, node selector, etc.) 

  • In-depth knowledge of routing network traffic and network security with K8S

  • In-depth knowledge of available provisioning storage options and limits (persistent storage) 

  • In-depth knowledge of Kube security and security mechanisms available to security between containers, pods, and the Kubernetes cluster 

  • In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes High Availability (auto-scaling, probes, load balancing)

  • In-depth knowledge of Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes 

• Experience with cloud-native technologies (CNCF)

• Understanding of microservice design and architectural patterns

• Maintenance and troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure including clusters 

• Experience managing k8s clusters adapted to Data Science workloads 

• Experience mixing different cloud services within the same projects 

• Experience in  securing cloud applications  (certificate management, HTTPS security, OAuth2 authentication, credential management) 

• Experience with infrastructure provisioning best practices with infrastructure-as-code

• Experience with tooling around CI/CD

• No problem expressing yourself in professional and technical English in writing and speaking

• Strong analytical skills and know how to identify risks and opportunities.

• Experience with security and compliance-related challenges

• Knowledge of working using Agile/Scrum-principles

Nice to have

• Experience with various PaaS components offered by GCP, AWS and/or Azure

• Experience with AliCloud/Aliyun

 

Education:

• Minimal five (5) years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role with at least one of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS and/or GCP)

• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.