Cloud Engineer

About the role

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a critical and talented Public Cloud engineering team setting the standards for Public Cloud development and delivering reusable artifacts and services to drive Cloud adoption and modernisation? Are you ready to play a key role in Swiss Re's Cloud Transformation aimed at utilising world leading cloud services to make the world more resilient?  Would you like to apply your excellent cloud engineering skills to combine Azure and other platforms and help application teams easily and securely adopt public cloud? Do you possess the required knowledge to help Swiss Re identify, evaluate, design and deliver new capabilities from the Public Cloud in the best way for hundreds of application owners and developers to use and benefit from the shared investment? Do you want to learn and grow as part of a global Engineering team who are the recognised experts helping other engineering teams adopt Public Cloud? Are you passionate about excellent engineering practices and both driving and serving a development community making the most of what Public Cloud has to offer?

Then you are exactly the person we are looking for!

We are searching for a Cloud Engineer to join our Capabilities and Engineering team in our wider Public Cloud Transformation team reporting to the Capabilities and Engineering Lead. Joining the capabilities and engineering team involves creating reusable templates using Infrastructure as Code, evaluating the new capabilities delivered by Cloud Service Providers and working with our wider team to ensure that they are secure, compliant with our policies and cost effective.  

Your main responsibilities:

Enhancing and maintaining a library of Cloud Infrastructure Templates using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for all applications teams to deploy cloud infrastructure in a secure and compliant way.

Update examples in a repository of E2E examples of how to use the templates for real situations including multi layered IaC approach and manage contributions to the templates and examples from our user community through inner sourcing.

Assessment of new cloud capabilities to deliver templates or shared services where appropriate. Performing POCs and working with experts from other teams like Cloud Platform and Cloud Security.

Ensure the cloud platform, shared services and cloud advisory teams are kept up to date with critical information, changes and issues as well as collaborating with Microsoft or other Cloud Service Providers where necessary to keep pace with developments in the Public Cloud.

Provide engineering expertise to work with application teams to modernize their applications according to 

the new solution architecture including design, implementation and testing of the changes to the application and updating our products and services where needed.

Participate in the Cloud Architecture Forum presenting technical topics including architecture and engineering, taking and documenting decisions.

Help evolve our public cloud development environment used by all teams including investigation of new tools and features such as GitHub Copilot.

Knowledge Sharing & Community Engagement:

Delivering community sessions and participating in events like hackathons to elevate the knowledge of the whole cloud community on various topics where you get a say on what comes next.

Helping other cloud engineers to ensure solutions are secure, resilient performant and compliant and benefit the whole community by guiding them through Inner Sourcing and other initiatives.

Providing the required documentation and best practices for how cloud applications should be engineered in the right way and using the tools provided.

About the team

You will be joining a skilled team of Cloud Engineers who are experts in cloud engineering and Infrastructure as Code, part of a larger Public Cloud Transformation team delivering business value through effective cloud adoption. The mission of this team is to deliver high quality engineering for products and services designed to help other engineering teams use Public Cloud and benefit from synergies across all our Business Domains. We work with the newest services provided in the cloud and aim to support and provide a modern cloud development experience to attract and retain the best talent and foster innovation in our business.

About you

We are happy to meet you if you possess:

• University degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or comparable education/experience)
• >3 years of relevant development, engineering and architectural experience.
• Practical and broad engineering experience working with Azure and/or AWS Cloud and Cloud Native architectures including ability to quickly learn and understand new cloud services and updates to existing cloud services from Cloud Service Providers.
• Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines and understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker and cloud orchestration platforms such as Function as a Service, Application Hosting Services or Kubernetes.
• Understanding of cloud security including application and network level security best practices, able to apply and contribute to cloud security standards and guardrails enforced by Azure Policies.
• The passion to deliver and support high quality engineering and services for other engineering teams to use and a keen interest in a modern cloud development.
• Effective communication skills with ability to build trust with technical teams and guide them in their cloud journey.
• A good collaborator willing and able to work in cross-functional teams working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical & conceptual skills and the capability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• At ease working in a transformational and complex environment at a fast-pace and getting things done.
• Proficiency in English is required.