Hybrid Senior Digital Cloud Architect

at National Guardian Life Insurance Company

• Job title: Senior Digital Cloud Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Madison, United States

About the role

• Senior Digital Cloud Architect delivering highly scalable cloud solutions for NGL Insurance. Partnering with teams to ensure security, scalability, and efficiency in cloud computing strategies.

Responsibilities

• The primary function of the Senior Digital Cloud Architect is to partner with business teams, technology teams and external vendor teams to deliver highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud solution architectures that address business problems.
• This role is crucial in shaping our strategy, ensuring scalability, security and efficiency for our multi-cloud enterprise.
• The Senior Digital Cloud Architect is responsible for NGL’s cloud computing system and works with cloud technology to develop cloud adoption plans, determine cloud application design, and create systems for managing, monitoring, and maintaining the cloud system.
• This position leads and guides projects that make the workforce more efficient through the utilization of digital cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand technical requirements and translate them into scalable secure solutions.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture team to develop enterprise roadmaps, blueprints and cloud adoption plans for a multi-cloud enterprise.
• Ensure the integration of cloud services, considering scalability, performance and cost.
• Conduct regular assessments and implement improvements to security.

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of relevant hands-on solution architecture/design experience in infrastructure, and security domains required.
• A minimum of five years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) required.
• A minimum of five years of relevant hands-on Cloud Solution architecture exposure to building on AWS required.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable and secure cloud solutions
• In-depth knowledge of AWS platform and technologies preferred
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and security best practices in cloud environments and a multi-cloud enterprise
• Articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non-technical business leaders, and clients
• Ability to quickly understand business requirements and propose reference architectures and technology solutions.
• Capable to present options and weigh implementation complexities and risks to recommend the right technical decision
• Knowledge of emerging trends in the digital transformation, technology and architecture space and ability to recommend solutions
• Demonstrated project management leadership
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools
• Familiarity with serverless computing and microservice architecture
• Experience with identity and access management, cloud networking, and zero-trust principles
• Knowledge of FinOps practices or experience managing a cloud cost management program
• Ability to guide and mentor peers in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with modern observability stacks

Benefits

• 20 days of Paid Time Off growing to 25 days after 5 years
• 11 Paid Holidays (10 company holidays and 1 personal holiday of your choice)
• Health care, dental and vision plans
• Up to $1,500 (Family) or $1,000 (Single) annually towards a Health Savings Account
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) match up to 9%
• Paid Sabbatical after 8 years
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Recognition Program
• And much more!