Lead Cloud Engineer

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IT - Development

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The Lead Cloud Engineer will be an integral member of Transamerica Workplace Cloud Engineering and Security team and contribute to the strategic cloud transformation program, focused on modernizing Transamerica Workplace Solutions and continuously innovating and improving our Cloud Automation, Security, DR and Cost control capabilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies.
• Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions for system level architecture solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; mentor other team members in design/coding standards.  
• Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
• Lead analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions.
• Participate on committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines.
• Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions. 
• Lead cloud and web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
• Prepare presentations and lead development meetings

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience
• 3-5 years of Python or Java programming experience
• Experience in Linux (Amazon Linux, Redhat), Windows Operating systems
• Proficiency in Linux shell scripting or Windows Powershell scripting
• Two plus years of experience with Infrastructure as Code solutions, preferably Terraform
• Experience in developing quick Proof of Concepts
• Two or more years of development experience with AWS cloud services utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, CloudWatch, Route53, ALB, EFS)
• Experience in building cloud automation solutions using AWS Lambda, Python boto3
• Basic underst