Manager Enterprise technology cloud engineer

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 plc group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003. At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G plc'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.

Accountabilities/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.
• 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 in order to support infrastructure deployments.

Knowledge & Skills:

Required

• Automation and DevOps at the heart of all work you tackle
• Thorough understanding of Continuous integration and continuous delivery using Azure DevOps.
• 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.
• Experience with containers, registries, and related orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or ARO, Helm charts). Knowledge of GitOps and the most common tools is an extra bonus
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good working and hands on knowledge of Azure IaaS , Vnet , Subnets , Firewalls and NSG. Sound understanding of networking knowledge on 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
• Skills to develop small tools using a Single page application with a frontend.
• Experience working with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Javascript

Desired

• Experience in Linux/Windows-based operating systems
• 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.
• Proficiency and thorough understanding of Azure RBAC model.
• Good grasp of Azure governance principles and hands-on experience in rolling out compliance and governance polices.
• Experience with Enterprise Platforms like Apigee, OpenShift and JFrog Artifactory
• Experience working with programming languages such as Python, C#
• Experience in setting up Application performance monitoring suites
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence is desirable but not necessary
• Basic knowledge around power platform and powerBI

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer who can showcase working independently and along with the team.

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.