Cloud Engineer

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 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? Our Cloud Platform Engineering team that is positioned at the root of Cloud enabling solutions development is looking to expand in Bucharest and Cluj.

Job Description

The Cloud  Engineer will work from home, our Bucharest or Cluj offices, or from any other place considered suitable for a working environment. The person who will join this role will report to an IT Delivery Manager from Romania.

As a Cloud Engineer of the Cloud Platform Engineering team you will play a crucial role in architecting and implementing fully automated, secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solutions. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a highly technical and cross functional team and work closely with cloud/DevOps engineers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter who can work independently with minimal oversight, has an agile/DevOps mindset and is eager to learn.

Meet The Team

We are passionate Engineers in a small but efficient team spread across US, Romania and India. Our mission is to ensure the patterns designed by architecture teams are implemented across the entire organization in a standardized and automated manner.

In our day to day work, we manage the tools used by our entire organization like Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault. We also offer support for our internal clients kubernetes clusters

From time to time we’re writing some python scripts, terraform code to automate the manual processes.

Our mindset and strategy is to build and deliver one click products.

We’re tracking all our work in Jira and Confluence, following the Kanban Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

Technical Design, Development & Problem Solving:

• Provide recommendations on architectural changes in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost

• Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options

• Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance

• Ability to independently develop algorithms and deliver results in production environments at scale.

• Ability to take on proof of concepts to proof new technologies

• Problem solve with little to no guidance

• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems

• Conduct and oversee design & code reviews 

Execution & Delivery:

• Ability to independently execute complex, long term projects

• Understand context of the work rather than just focusing on what is assigned.

• Excellent communicator and collaborates well with people inside the team and in other organizations

• Innovate and is open to ideas to improve efficiency and works with the team to pivot if necessary.

• Write clean, high-performance, well tested infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation (e.g. Shell, Python, Golang, Puppet, Terraform etc...)

Software Engineering Excellence:

• Responsible for code excellence and quality of the project being assigned

• Research on tools being used by the department and provide suggestions for improvements

• Creates reusable code frameworks or example projects to aid developers on the team.

• Advocates and leads initiatives for enhancing our testing frameworks

Leadership (only for FTE):

• Mentor core developers

• Partner with business stakeholders and product managers to define project timelines and deliverable at each project stage.

• Awareness and involvement in identifying the resources which would be required for project delivery.

• Being able to identify resources from other departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Advanced understanding of CI / CD concepts

• Experience with Jenkins (e.g. master-slave architecture, Jenkins Shared Libraries, Groovy)

• Experience with artifact repository managers (Artifactory is preferred)

• Understanding of Docker containers

• Good scripting skills (e.g. bash, python, go lang)

• Practical experience with version control systems (Git is preferred)

• Seasoned Infrastructure as Code developer with Terraform

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes

• Understanding of microservices architecture

• Hands-on experience on public cloud

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment

• Familiar with Agile methodology concepts

Nice to have:

• Understanding of GitOps processes and tools

• Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (e.g. Artifactory, Helm, Ansible, etc.) and emerging technologies

• Experience with Github and Github Actions

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