Lead Cloud Engineer

When you join Met Life’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

Lead Cloud Engineer to build and operate cloud-based applications in an efficient, safe, and compliant manner. We maintain a global view of cloud adoption and leverage infrastructure as code to engineer a cloud platform providing self-service capabilities and metrics to drive desired behaviors around financial operations, security posture, and overall good hygiene for cloud-based applications.

• Strong experience on technical solution architecture and enterprise architecture
• Deliver fit for purpose, secure, scalable, solution architectures in an agile framework that evolves with the line of business by collaborating with AD, business, and engineering teams.
• Build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services.
• Implement cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure, including deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
• Work with containerization platforms such as Docker and orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes preferred).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Owners, QA, Dev Ops, UI/UX) in an Agile environment.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, and support continuous improvement.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation.

• 6 - 8+ years of overall experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent degree type.
• Strong hands‑on experience in Python.
• Proven experience in building highly secure REST APIs and integration with different platforms.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of application design and architecture, system integration, and data flows.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services (including most of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL, API Management, Key Vault, etc.).

• Experience on Generative AI (Langchain, Langgraph), Development in Git Hub Enterprise, Git Hub CoPilot.
• Working knowledge of Agile, CI/CD pipelines, ideally using Azure Dev Ops or similar tooling.
• Knowledge of FastAPI and any ASGI server.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in designing, developing, delivering, and architecting enterprise solutions.

Hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

Expected salary range: $105,000 - $155,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short‑term incentive compensation and stock-based long‑term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well‑being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short‑ and long‑term disability. We also provide company‑paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by Met Life and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

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