Cloud Solutions Architect

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania – in partnership with MassMutual in the United States – will help shape a culture of innovation and to create the digital products and technology solutions that help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. Positioning MassMutual for its next 20 million customers and remaining innovative in a digital-first world led to the creation of MassMutual Romania in 2020. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, MassMutual Romania was established to build an in-house team with expertise in application development and support, quality assurance and data science. For 170 years, MassMutual has put its customers at the heart of what it does by providing holistic financial solutions, guidance, and education on their terms. Its long-term strategy helps ensure that policyowners and their loved ones can rely on them to be there when they need them most. If this vision excites you, come join us and become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be one of the most important enablers to our success and you can be a part of it.

The Opportunity

Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions, and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual Romania, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection and plan for the future. We do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual. If this sounds like a fit, come join our team.

The Senior Cloud Solutions Architect will work from our Bucharest / Cluj office while collaborating with the Global MassMutual teams and provide support in the Cloud area. The person who will join this role will report to a local manager based in Bucharest.

Responsibilities
▪ Works with Enterprise Architecture, IT leaders, business, and IT support teams to develop and maintain technical strategies and roadmaps that are aligned with the segment’s strategic direction to ensure that business capabilities are enabled.
▪ Work closely with enterprise architects, product managers and Cloud/DevOps engineers to design and implement cloud platform automation solutions
▪ Partner with the Platform Delivery Lead on the prioritization of the product backlog, refining product roadmap, KPIs & releases
▪ Leads the identification and analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential effect on their business segments. Develops new technology enablers for business segments and technology domains.
▪ Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
▪ Conduct and oversee design & code reviews
▪ Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance
▪ Monitor platform software quality and work closely with Cloud/DevOps engineers to improve it
▪ Work closely with stakeholders and engineering teams to on-board and self-service enable platform consumers
▪ Support platform operations, ensure platform stability, assist with incidents and maintain platform SLA’s
▪ Design automation frameworks to support the platform products

Requirements
▪ Advanced Degree in Computer Science or relevant engineering discipline
▪ 10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in architecture or DevOps/ SRE experience
▪ 5+ years of cloud-native software engineering experience
▪ Ability to devise engineering solutions through critical examination of problem and collaboration with team members and customers (developers, architects, engineers)
▪ Practitioner experience with containerization (docker & Kubernetes), cloud technologies, tools (Jenkins, Artifactory) and practices (CI/CD patterns, TDD, automated provisioning & release, GitOps, IaC)
▪ Technical leadership (DevOps/SRE mindset) experience on a highly agile team delivering business value incrementally
▪ Solid cloud and infrastructure experience with a working understanding of cloud infrastructure components at IaaS, PaaS & CaaS abstraction layers
▪ Experience with the full spectrum of software engineering value stream (e.g. build, integration, testing, and releasing / deployment)
▪ Solid understanding of software security and defensive coding techniques and left shift security models (DevSecOps)
▪ Highly skilled in automation languages (e.g. Golang/Rust, Python) and configuration management tools (e.g., ansible, chef, puppet, and Salt)
▪ Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success.

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