Senior Cloud Architect

Location: Hyderabad, TG, IN

Senior Cloud 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

The Cloud Transformation Delivery Team is a unit in the Public Cloud Transformation department. The team focuses on driving cloud transformation across the business domain ITs through architecture delivery. The team also acts as a gateway to understand application needs and help establish new shared services and capabilities on the Public Cloud platform.

The Cloud Transformation Delivery's mission is to deliver business value through enabling Swiss Re and the business units to utilize the power and flexibility offered by public Cloud and accelerate the public cloud adoption across Swiss Re.

About the Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in Solution Architecture? Are you passionate about everything Azure Cloud ? Then join us as a Senior Cloud Architect

 Your main responsibilities:

Solutioning to build a comprehensive Cloud platform focusing on non-functional requirements.

•           Design and deliver Azure solution architecture for an application workload.

•           Design disaster recovery and backup plans based on RTO , RPO and other non-functional requirements to deliver resilient solution on Public Cloud.

•           Assisting engineering teams delivering infrastructure architecture and designing cloud solutions.

•           Build and maintain relationship with Application teams, understanding the context and assisting in achieving effective cloud transformation roadmap

•           Engage with subject matter experts in Security, Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to contribute and develop cloud technology roadmap and adherence to best practices.

•           Create POCs of new Azure capabilities. Help and assist Shared Services team to assess and create multi-tenant shared services based on Azure capabilities.

About you

The following proven technical skills will be required:

•           Hands-on expertise in designing app workload using Cloud Platform Services (SaaS, and PaaS).

•           Hands-on expertise in Azure tech stack like Azure AI Services, AKS, App Services, DataBricks, ADF, ASB, EventHub, KV, SA, Container Registry, Azure Functions, Redis, LogicApps, Azure Firewall, VNET, Private Endpoint, Service Endpoint, SQL Server, CosmosDB, MongoDB etc

•           Experience in designing IaC using Terraform on Azure DevOps.

•           Hands-on expertise in designing Azure disaster recovery and backup scenarios meeting NFRs. Provide accurate calculations for application's availability, RTO and RPO.

•           Expertise in technology selection based on Architecture decision records and other standards within the organization.

•           Azure Well-Architected framework or Cloud design patterns.

•           Experience in one or more programming languages: .Net / C#, Java, Python or Ruby

•           Experience in Azure landing zone design, platform automation design, DevSecOps tooling, network topology & connectivity, access management & privileged identity design, platform monitoring, security architecture, high availability architecture design.

•           Experience in DevOps methodology (preferably DevSecOps), both technically and organisationally, including continuous deployment, delivery pipelines and test environments.

•           Good stakeholder communication. Ability to work with Product Owner, Product Manager, Architects and engineering teams.

•           At ease working in a transformational and complex environment at a fast-pace and getting things done.

•           Proficiency in English is required.