Cloud Solution Engineer

­­Job Title 

Azure Cloud Solution Engineer / Architect

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

About the team

Join a diverse and talented team of engineers working to transform the way we build our software. Benefit from flexible working arrangements where you own the way you work, and build a career supported by likeminded people.

About the role

Do you want to engage with different teams on exciting projects, and come together to achieve something greater?

Do you like to evangelize best practices and lead teams to build more robust, secure and compliant software?

Are you an expert programmer who can also wear the architect’s hat?

Then the Corporate Solutions Tech Transformation Team is the place for you!

Your responsibilities

• Working alongside product teams to adopt new technology standards with hands-on development work
• Performing research and technical PoCs on emerging technologies, hence contributing to shaping our tech strategy for future
• Driving initiatives such as cloud modernization (Microsoft Azure) and DevSecOps patterns and practices (Azure Devops / Github Enterprise)
• Ensuring that governance and controls are appropriately implemented by the product teams in an advisory role
• Ability to explain end-to-end technical concepts to teams and understand alignment of their business requirements to technical standards
• Contribute actively with pull requests, code reviews and testing

Working with teams such as quality assurance and support to improve the operational stability of our applications

Years of experience

5-10 years

Must have technical skills

•    Extensive Azure experience (3+ years)
•    Strong programming skills (e.g. C#, Java, TypeScript or Python)
•    Understanding of containers and microservices
•    Identity and access management
•    Networking knowledge
•    Logging and telemetry
•    Api management

Must have social skills

• Team player who works well with others
• Continuous learning mindset
• Great communication skills

Good to have skills

• Analytical big data experience
• Kubernetes knowledge