AVP - CTO - Cloud Engineer
M&G
We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003.
Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G’s ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.
Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
Accountability/Responsibilities
- Design and deliver complex Azure infrastructure solutions ensuring security and governance best practises are followed
- Embrace and adapt to the changing environment by developing applications or script in the language of choice.
- Torch bearer for the team – being a SME or go to person for multiple product/projects. Validate and challenge the technical changes by maintaining the high standard for the delivery. Embrace new technology changes.
- Can develop products with little instructions, should be able to troubleshoot in case of adverse incident and should be able to dissect complex problems.
- Should be able to Mentor the team members, proactively look for sharing the knowledge and encourage collaboration.
- Can act as a project manager from ideation process, influencing decisions to delivery and proactively look for opportunities and tools to improves the process.
- Should be able to Manage the Engineers and lead at all levels.
- Should be able to clearly articulate business values to the senior stakeholders and should be able to challenge them.
- Understand the risk and controls around the applications running in cloud.
- Follow the software development lifecycle defined within the team.
- Be able to appreciate truly Agile ways of working/development using tools like Jira/Confluence.
- Collaborate with peers across various levels for experiential learnings.
- Focus on Scalability, resilience, security, quality and continuous rigour to reduce technical debt.
- Advance the cloud community through sharing of best practice and mentoring others.
- Create and maintain build and release pipelines across Azure DevOps projects to support infrastructure deployments.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Automation and DevOps at the heart of all work you tackle
- Proficiency in Integration of various Azure resources (IaaS and PaaS - SQL DB, App Service, Application Insights, storage accounts etc) to deliver an end-to-end automation.
- Thorough understanding of Continuous integration and continuous delivery using Azure DevOps/VSTS.
- Proficiency and thorough understanding of Azure RBAC model.
- Experience in security tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx.
- Good grasp of Azure governance principles and hands-on experience in rolling out compliance and governance polices.
- Proficiency in developing infrastructure automation scripts in the form of Terraform, ARM templates and Azure Power Shell scripts which can then be provided to application teams as consumables.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Good working and hands on knowledge of Azure IaaS & PaaS, Vnet , Subnets, Firewalls and NSG. Sound understanding of networking knowledge on DNA and Firewall security like Palo Alto.
- Ability to independently solve problems and build robust solutions and enjoy working with minimal supervision within an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment
- Experience in setting up and managing logging and monitoring tools like ECK, AppDynamics or any APM tool
- Experience working with programming languages such as Python, C# and PowerShell
- Experience with containers, registries, and related orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Helm charts and Kyverno). Knowledge of GitOps and the most common tools is an extra bonus
- Knowledge around power platform and powerBI
- Good to have azure certification, Terraform and Kubernetes certifications
Experience:
Minimum 12 years of relevant experience who can showcase delivering with the help of the team by taking responsibility end to end.
Educational Qualification:
- Graduate/Masters in any discipline
- Cloud certifications would be an added advantage
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.