Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Who We Are

At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.

We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life:

• We are stronger as one:
  We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners.
• We deliver on commitments:
  We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
• We learn, improve and innovate:
  We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
• We are inclusive:
  We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.

The Information Technology organization is the technological foundation of our business and works in collaboration with our partners from across the company. The team drives technology and digital transformation, partners with business leaders to design and execute new strategies through IT and operations services and ensures the necessary IT risk management and security measures are in place and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and principles.

The Cloud Architect is responsible for creating the Cloud Architecture Strategy and actively managing and maintaining our Cloud Services footprint. The objective is to maintain a stable and secure cloud infrastructure through oversight and engagement with IT Customers, IT groups and 3rd party Cloud Service Providers. This role has a deep understanding of the technical aspects of cloud computing (Public, Private, Hybrid), data centers, and virtual infrastructure.

It is also important to understand the overarching strategic business decisions that need to be made around IT services. A professional with advanced knowledge of installation, configuration and management of the company's IT infrastructure and related systems is necessary to achieve their goals. This entails supporting complex enterprise-level cloud applications, providing architectural direction within the Cloud Services team, and providing guidance on strategy execution as the company evolves.

The individual will manage a variety of complex assignments related to planning and design of cloud systems and applications to meet business needs, upgrades to existing systems, monitor and escalated troubleshooting of cloud systems and applications, analyzing system faults and performance issues, and running diagnostic tests on applications operating in the cloud to detect and resolve issues. Understanding and being able to communicate the financial operating costs of a cloud environment is a critical skill for success.

Experience with Cloud Service Providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS), Windows and Linux file systems are a plus. Knowledge and experience with the project life cycle emphasizing design, architecture, technical reports, and documentation will be critical for success in this role. This position requires exceptional professionalism, communication abilities and strong technical skills.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining Cloud Services architecture and providing input on decisions to be taken on new virtual cloud equipment and upgrades.
• Developing and tracking budgets for new and existing Cloud Infrastructure.
• Manage and report on the availability of Cloud Services across the entire Cloud Server Ecosystem to meet the required SLA's.
• Develop and monitor metrics to improve Cloud environment availability and performance.
• Drive incident resolution from participation in incident troubleshooting sessions through delivery and closure of post-mortems of cloud services related incidents.
• Develop standards for Cloud Services.
• Support and maintain a scalable backup solution for the virtualized and standalone Cloud environments.

• 10+ years in information technology with a minimum of 5+ years in an architectural role in IT.
• 5+ years of application/solution development…