Senior Cloud Engineer

Sr Cloud Engineer - IE07NE

We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

The Hartford's Employee Benefits organization is looking to transform Strategic Data Exchange landscape by building a roadmap to move to AWS and restructure existing applications in cloud to be in line with Enterprise Guidelines.

This is a technical role, that will be part of an agile team to achieve business outcomes on a large transformational program. The Solutions built should be based on Hartford's architectural standards, business requirements, technology roadmap and industry trends. The primary objective is to enable our customer experience and speed to market while providing flexibility and scalability to execute on the broader Employee Benefits Roadmap. Immediate assignment in this role will be to leverage existing application in AWS to enterprise cloud org guidelines & standards AND actively work on road map to bring legacy application to cloud.

• Use AWS for building, deploying, and migrating legacy applications to Cloud.
• Amazon Web Services usage includes but not limited to Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, AWSBatch, AWSDirectory, Service Catalog.
• Writing and using scalable and secure API's
• Enhance or convert existing components in Oracle and MariaDB relational database technologies.
• Leverage architectural standards and safeguard the integrity of the application environment, in alliance with architect and Engineering lead.
• Design and implement new software architecture patterns in Cloud that are scalable, reusable, secure, and cost efficient while adhering to industry standards such as multi region support with fault tolerant and data replication strategies.
• Use DevOps and CI/CD tools. Develops Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation templates, YAML files, build specifications, and Lambda functions to have a completely automated build and release process for all AWS resource infrastructure and code artifacts.
• Implements proactive monitoring and observability to predict and detect abnormal system behaviors, with timely alerts avoiding system impacts. Troubleshoot problems with software and infrastructure.
• Provide concise, transparent communications about potential risks, mitigations, and business impacts quickly.
• Present new ideas to leadership and bring forward improvement opportunities as learnings.
  Communicate clearly and professionally both in speech and in writing.
• Share knowledge with team members (including Sourcing Partners) regarding development guidelines and best practices.
• Function as the go-to technical subject matter expert for the software application migration to cloud and integration aspects.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  Take ownership to drive innovation for effectively leveraging technology to solve the customer problem.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, or any Engineering.
• Must have an active AWS associate certification.
• Awareness of full software development life cycle practices and the ability to follow source code management, code quality and testing practices.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in application software solution development and execution. Software development knowledge using AWS resources like Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Route 53, VPC, AWS Batch, AWS Directory, Service Catalog is preferred.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies, such as, Java Web Services, JMS, XML, JSON, JDBC etc. Along with experience in creating Web Service (SOAP and Rest) using Java Spring boot. Understanding of Batch and MQ.
• 3+ years of systems design experience along with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies. Experience using GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, uDeploy , Rally, checkmarx etc or AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodeStar.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK.
• Experience with one or more relational database technologies such as Postgres, Oracle, MariaDB. Experience in Upgrades and Migrating of database is a plus.
• Familiar with Agile methodology. Experience working in an Agile or SAFe development environment.
• Proven ability to work with cross functional teams.
• Possess analytical, problem solving and communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.

• Technical knowledge of AWS application development and Data Integrations
• Hands-on experience on Migrating Legacy applications to AWS.
• Experience with MariaDB.