Cloud Director

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Job details

Company overview

Around the world, our client offers insurance, retirement and savings products. They work directly with customers as well as offer our products through agents, third party distributors, and brokers.

Responsibilities

The role reports to the Head of Integrated Technology Services and requires deep expertise and a successful track record of delivering solutions on Azure and other cloud platforms. As a key enabler to work with infrastructure and application development leadership teams to serve the business, selected candidates will be familiar with cloud migration, adoption roadmaps, cloud-native solution architectures, and best practices on cloud platforms. The candidate must have a demonstrated ability to drive technology strategy within the company. This position manages all clouds (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.) and directly manages all SRE and support engineering teams. Main responsibilities:

• Design and implement Azure PaaS infrastructure and services for Metlife environments.
• Ability to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-class security, network, and systems management applications within Azure and other cloud environments.
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for Azure and other cloud platforms.
• Ability to directly manage and be responsible for a large number of staff.
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation. Codify your infrastructure and implement security automation, automation of routine maintenance tasks, and more.
• Assist with data migration from on-premises environments to Azure and other cloud solutions.
• Support the business development lifecycle (business development, capture, solution architect, pricing and proposal development).
• Manage and grow the careers of staff under your management.
• Assumes tasks and responsibilities outside of normal scope as needed.
• Management tasks such as budgeting and forecasting, contracts, resources, and invoices.
• Most importantly, we push the limits of the company technology stack every day.

 

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Oral and written communication in business-level English and Japanese
• Extensive experience with Azure (Compute, AKS, Azure Storage, Azure App Service models, Azure Networks)
• 8+ years of leadership and talent management experience in a diverse workplace
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and 10+ years of experience working in IT
• Over 2 years of management network activities such as NW routing, firewall, NW dump analysis, and NW monitoring.
• 2+ years of management activities including web technologies, TLS, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, WAF and HTTP/S session analysis using PKI infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience delivering and setting up cloud-native technologies while ensuring appropriate security controls and durability as standard design.
• 5+ years of experience helping application developers onboard applications to cloud-based application platforms.
• 5+ years of product/platform management experience in agile methodologies such as SAFe
• 2+ years of experience dealing with and negotiating with internal/external auditors.
• Communicate effectively within the engineering team and with other technical and business teams.
• Motivated and capable of solving complex problems.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate concepts to business and technical stakeholders as well as senior management.
• Works independently with minimal direction and is organized.

 Preferred qualifications:

• Various certifications related to cloud-related technologies

Salary

15 - 20 million yen

Location

Tokyo