Senior Engineer, Cloud Services

RGA; Creve Coeur (MO); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus plan

Equity incentive plan

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

RGA is seeking a senior cloud engineer to design, deploy, and maintain public cloud infrastructure. You will build resilient environments using infrastructure as code, automation, and cloud-native features to support scalable services.

The role emphasizes security, availability, disaster recovery, and DevOps standards across the estate, with collaboration among cloud ops engineers in a global, hybrid environment. Requires 8+ years IT experience and 3+ years on public cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent related work experience required.
• 8+ years experience in IT roles.
• 3+ years hands‑on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on public cloud services required.
• CISSP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the design, development, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, network, and layout. Build and maintain public cloud platform infrastructure as code services.
• Responsible for public cloud infrastructure in terms of security, availability, and reliability. Ensure components comply with security policies.
• Responsible for executing DevOps standards and best practices across RGA infrastructure.
• Proactively maintains knowledge of cloud engineering trends and technology advancements.
• Monitors and improves cloud system uptime, performance, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Provides regular status, operational, incident, and change reports.

Skills

Public Cloud

DevOps

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

REST

NodeJS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

SQL

NoSQL

Agile

Docker

Security

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Maven

Gradle

Shell

PowerShell

AWS CLI

Ansible

JSON

Job description

You desire impactful work.

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Supports the global design, implementation, and maintenance of public cloud infrastructure. Builds and maintains cloud environments to enable RGA to scale their shared service public cloud infrastructure. This role will provide technical engineering and system administration to build resilient cloud infrastructure that leverages cloud-native capabilities including auto-scaling and automated management. This is a technically skilled role that requires knowledge in public cloud build across networking, compute, and storage, infrastructure as code technologies, configuration management, high availability design, disaster recover, and public cloud services. Solves complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions. Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information. Individual contributor who works on highly complex problems, tasks, or projects.

Principle Duties:

• Coordinates the design, development, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, network, and layout. Build and maintain public cloud platform infrastructure as code services

• Responsible for public cloud infrastructure in terms of non-functional requirements like security, availability, and reliability. Will collaborate with other areas to make certain infrastructure components are compliant to RGA security policies.

• Responsible for executing DevOps standards and best practice across RGA infrastructure

• Proactively maintains a broad knowledge of cloud engineering trends and technology advancements

• Monitors and improves Cloud system uptime, performance, high availability and disaster recovery readiness

• Provides regular status, operational, incident, and change reports.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent related work experience required

Work Experience:

• 8+ Years experience performing IT related roles required

• 3+ Years of hands‑on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on public cloud services required

Licenses and Certifications:

• CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Preferred

Skills & Abilities:

• Must possess an advanced engineering knowledge of Public Cloud Services including: Monitoring, Access, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Configuration, and Database services required

• Experience designing, developing, deploying, testing in public cloud architecture required

• Research, design, analyze, and modify Cloud-based Enterprise-wide systems and application software. required

• Support the planning of system deployment and infra configuration to meet industry and corporate compliance standards. Evaluate operational requirements and provide solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. required

• Solid background and understanding of SQL and NoSql data stores required

• Team oriented and ability to collaborate effectively with highly skilled cloud ops engineers. Some experience in agile methodologies. required

• Experience in application development for cloud platforms using technologies like Grails, Angular frameworks, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring, Micro Services, REST, NodeJS and others required

• Knowledge and experience in infrastructure for cloud platforms using technologies like Terraform, Cloud Formation, NFS, SAN, Docker, Consul, Vault, Docker Orchestration tools, and CI/CD (Jenkins, Spinnaker) required

• Experience in using build and deployment tools like Maven, Gradle, Shell Scripts, Powershell etc. required

• Experience with programming and infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform, AWSCLI, Ansibul, Python, Shell, Java, and JSON). required

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What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.

Compensation Range:

$107,060.00 - $159,390.00 Annual

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.