SENIOR PRODUCTION ENGINEER

Job Summary

The Senior Production Engineer supports the company’s strategic and operating objectives through administration, management and support of technical systems that contain its operational and decision support information. Within SCOR IT Technical / Production department, your key function will consist in:

• Contributing to maintain SCOR group's information systems in operational condition,
• Participating to the improvement of operating procedures and to the integration of new systems while respecting deadlines and technical constraints,
• Sharing and training peers on your domain of expertise.

 

Your role also needs to be open-minded, information-sharing and problem-solving oriented, while working in a demanding environment with various stakeholders, in the Production team but also in the IT Functional department, with Service Owners and Project Managers.

 

Candidate Success Factors:

• Accountability, reliability and thoroughness key values of Ops mindset
• Curiosity and willingness to learn from peers and past experiences
• Continuous improvement and service driven while keeping it simple

 

The strengths and skills that will help you succeed 

Hard skills

• Strong expertise with administration, support and of complex enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise with the following (or similar) technologies:
  • Operating Systems (Linux, Windows) & Networking (DNS, routing, etc…)
  • Application Servers and databases
  • Authentication services
  • Azure
  • Containerization and Kubernetes (AKS)
  • DataBricks
• Hands on experience with Monitoring, Patching, Backup, Process Automation, Disaster Recovery, High Availibility,… solutions is mandatory
• Cloud and Security expertise is desirable
• Fluent in English

 

Soft skills

• Client-oriented (understand users practices) 
• Willing to take initiatives
• Strong analytical and communications skills
• Team spirit and wish to collaborate with various stakeholders within SCOR IT
• Desire to work in a “multi-projects” approach and a multi-cultural environment

 

 

Attracting Top Talent at SCOR: Our Commitment to Excellence

At SCOR, we believe that talent is the driving force behind our success. We are seeking bright minds, innovators, and passionate individuals who want to shape the future of reinsurance.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Maintain, configure, deploy and plan changes for SCOR Cloud Services
• Provide technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that current and planned technical solutions are compatible with business needs and strategic objectives
• Troubleshoot issues and participate in multi-discipline war rooms to resolve customer incidents as an L2 or L3 expert when circumstances require it.
• Support IT Functional teams with development of processes to support business needs. Also expected to develop jobs to support pure technical processes.
• Identify and complete activities that introduce significant improvement to SCOR ecosystem (time savings, cost savings, system upgrades, reduces complexity, etc…)
• Identify and complete activities for strategic/functional projects
• Ensure adequate controls and control reports are available to comply with regulators and global governance
• Ensure compliance with IT technical policies
• Ensure compliance and deliver evidence as required to maintain ICS controls

Required experience & competencies

• 10+ years of experience supporting IT production systems
• Fluent in English (written, spoken)

Required Education 

• Bachelor’s degree is required, with major in Information Science or related field desirable, or equivalent experience
• English written & spoken

 

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