Senior Cloud Engineer

At Coaction were a unique mix of leaders achievers thinkers and team players with a high-performance mindset and a diverse skillset. We bring our industry expertise together to continually push the boundaries of what insurance can be for our clients.

About Us:

Coaction Specialty Insurance Group (Coaction) is a privately-owned specialty property and casualty (P&C) insurance company headquartered in Morristown New Jersey with additional offices in Alpharetta Georgia Glendale California and New York City.

The AWS & Azure Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design operation security and continuous improvement of Coactions cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. This role is hands-on and executionoriented with accountability for reliability cost efficiency disaster recovery readiness and alignment with enterprise security and compliance standards.

The position supports an AWSfirst architecture while maintaining and operating key Azure workloads partnering with internal teams and managed service providers to deliver highquality cloud services.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for Cloud Service and Support end to end

Design deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and services on AWS

Azure Cloud operations and services experience a plus

Deep experience with Disaster Recovery programming Design with AWS services

Monitor and optimize AWS services for performance security and cost-efficiency

Ensure cloud security best practices compliance and governance policies

Troubleshoot and resolve ALL cloud infrastructure related issues

Infrastructure liaison and project member for relevant contributions to Coaction IT teams on business and technology initiatives

Stay updated with AWS innovations and recommend improvements

Provide AWS Technical leadership within the Coaction IT organization

Provide Project leadership and oversight to upgrade consolidate and enhance Global Coaction Infrastructure technology and associated frameworks.

Work closely with 3rd party support providers on Cloud OPS details

Responsible for Backup and Recovery operations

Perform Tier 1 through Tier III support

Qualifications & Skills:

Strong experience operating infrastructure in:

o AWS (primary)

o Azure (supporting / secondary)

Proficiency in AWS services (RDS Redshift EC2 ECS S3 Lambda VPC IAM CloudWatch CloudTrail Security services etc.)

Strong understanding of networking and security in AWS

Must be able to work independently with minimal s supervision in a dynamic environment managing multiple priorities simultaneously

AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) are a plus

Familiarity with containerization (Docker Kubernetes AWS ECS/EKS)

Comfortable making decisions within scope and escalating only when appropriate

Strong scripting skills in Python Bash or PowerShell

Familiarity with SDLC DevOps

Familiarity with Agile project management framework

Bachelors degree in computer science IT or related field (or equivalent experience)

7 years of experience in cloud engineering with AWS

Experience with automation development

Leadership & Communication Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical teams and non-technical business or executive stakeholders

Demonstrated leadership experience including mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers and cross-functional team members

Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build consensus and influence outcomes across IT business units and third-party vendors

Comfortable presenting cloud strategy project status and risk assessments to senior leadership and executive audiences

Sound judgment and clear calm communication under pressure particularly during incident response outages and disaster recovery events

Collaborative team-oriented approach with a track record of building strong working relationships across departments

Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to prioritize and independently manage multiple senior-level initiatives

Adaptable and resilient in a fast-paced evolving environment

**This is not a fully remote position. Applicants must sit in our Morristown NJ office on our hybrid work schedule.**

Salary range specific to for this role : $100000-$150000 discretionary incentive bonus benefits depends on various factors including without limitation individual and organizational performance. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education experience and addition employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off medical dental and retirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Coaction is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Coactions policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race color religion national origin gender age sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status mental or physical disability and genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coaction also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

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