American Equity · 5 hours ago
Solution Architect Lead, Site Reliability Engineering
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAmerican Equity is a company that offers leading annuity products to empower clients in retirement. The Solution Architect Lead, Site Reliability Engineering is responsible for observability, infrastructure and security architecture, and technology strategy, ensuring alignment with the Enterprise Architecture Framework while collaborating with internal and external partners.
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Responsibilities
Develops, maintains, documents, and governs on-prem and cloud system architectures for the technology portfolio and infrastructure domain in support of business functions
Enforces enterprise standards and policies in-line with Enterprise Architecture and system development lifecycle (SDLC) standards and strategies, and responsible for implementation and standardization for the IT discipline
Facilitates discovery of internal and external customers’ critical business issues and requirements
Oversees the ongoing optimization and evaluation of current and future cloud systems and services including AI capabilities, the creation and maintenance of technology roadmaps, as well as ensuring the viability and longevity of existing systems and processes
Drives cloud technology innovation, maturation/readiness and leverage into IT investments
Provides technology leadership, mentoring, training, and proof-of-concept development for adoption of observability and security technology, as it relates to high-performing development teams
Partners with IT Leaders on business case development with careful consideration of migrating from current or legacy solutions and approaches
Ensures cloud applications supporting American Equity are compliant, and technically resilient enough to meet established requirements
Conducts research and development around new technology concepts or implementations
Makes recommendations on technology strategies while considering various options and business needs
Provides advanced architecture and engineering support to automate and administer American Equity's SRE/APM strategy into all enterprise information systems
Drives planning and execution of SRE/APM roadmaps and technology enhancements
Creates and maintains standards surrounding documentation related to SRE/APM processes, procedure and infrastructure
Assesses current applications and architecture to ensure current implementations align with industry guidelines, best practices and management approved standards
Develops plans for implementing management directives in most secure manners with least disruption
Assists various IT departments with design, implementation and troubleshooting of SRE/APM technologies. Provide standards and best practice guidance and requirements to technology teams when no solution is currently available
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field of study; plus five (5) years of information technology experience working with cloud solutions; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Proficient in the use of Microsoft applications and a variety of software
Experience with developer tools and observability platform, preferred DataDog
Strong customer service orientation
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work cooperatively and successfully with co-employees, customers, and other outside third parties
Ability to successfully handle pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
Ability to analyze and apply principles of logical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems
Ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies while considering various options and business needs
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts and mathematical applications to tasks
Company
American Equity
American Equity is a leading provider of annuity products focused on bringing clarity and certainty to retirement income planning.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$253MKey Investors
Brookfield Wealth SolutionsBrookfield Asset Management
2023-07-05Acquired
2022-01-07Post Ipo Equity· $253M
2020-10-18Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Anant Bhalla
Chief Executive Officer
Nicholas Volpe
Chief Technology Officer at American Equity
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