Sr. Cloud Architect

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote’s success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high-quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary:

The Sr. Cloud Architect will be responsible for leading the architecture, design, and strategy of the entire SelectQuote infrastructure platform. The Sr. Cloud Architect will work within the Cloud Engineering team and serve as the ultimate technical escalation point. As a Sr. Cloud Architect you will work with other IT architects, engineers, and management across the SelectQuote IT Organization to provide deep technical guidance, and solutions which drive value to SelectQuote and our customers. You will spearhead innovation, optimize existing solutions and elevate your teammates.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage IT innovation through continuous learning and improvement.
• Manage the Design of infrastructure across a hybrid environment, primarily AWS.
• Manage transformative projects and Proof-of-Concepts
• Architect highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure
• Work with development teams to design microservice and serverless applications.
• Leverage infrastructure as code principles and technologies to deploy immutable network and server infrastructure in an automated fashion.
• Design, implement and maintain a CI/CD pipeline for on-premise and public cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Translate business initiatives into technology solutions.
• Manage cloud engineers to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for automation, integration and improvement.
• Provide guidance to Cloud Architects as needed
• Responsible for unresolved escalations from Cloud Architects
• Develop, recommend, and implement new or updated technologies and procedures to ensure streamlined operations.
• Sets the example and demonstrates high performance in the areas of, collaboration, teamwork, reliability, productivity, and execution.

Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

• Advanced knowledge of Terraform, required
• Advanced knowledge of AWS concepts, technologies and services, required (ie. EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, EBS, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Microservices and Serverless Technologies, required (ie. Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of AWS Organizations, required
• Advanced knowledge of AWS IAM and permissions management
• Comprehensive knowledge of REST API’s, required
• Comprehensive knowledge of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and SSH, required
• Comprehensive knowledge of Git and version control workflows, required
• Comprehensive knowledge of virtualization technologies/platforms, required (ie. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
• Comprehensive knowledge of VPN technologies, preferred (ie. SSL-VPN, IPSec)
• Comprehensive knowledge of Linux operating systems, preferred
• Ability to adapt to new, advanced concepts and technologies quickly; grow skillset rapidly
• Ability to plan, design, and lead project efforts with very minimal assistance from teammates/management
• Ability to teach and improve teammates
• Ability not only to identify gaps/weaknesses within the corresponding discipline, but also create solutions.
• Ability to troubleshoot, identify problems, isolate variables at a high level

Education and Experience:

• 10+ years of experience working in an IT Infrastructure or related field, required
• 8+ years of experience as a Cloud Architect, Enterprise Architect or similar role.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, required
• Multiple AWS Certified Specialty or Associate Certifications, required
• Experience in Azure or GCP, required
• Experience with AWS cloud architecture in an enterprise environment
• Experience implementing the AWS Well-Architected Framewo