Senior Microsoft Systems and Network Engineer

3 weeks ago


Toronto ON, Canada PartnerRe Full time

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.
Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

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The Senior Systems Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for maintaining and evolving the infrastructure that hosts and delivers the core business applications and workflows worldwide. Exposure is broad, covering many different technologies across business units, working in tandem with various teams, establishing relationships, all to provide a stable and efficient platform for the business to operate. This position requires a strong ability to drill down into the lower-level technical details while taking a holistic view, for triaging of major incidents and managing an end-to-end solution. You need to lead and manage a task force of stakeholders across multiple technical teams for permanent resolution of major incidents. Strong communication and organizational qualities are keys to success for the role. This position requires a strong balance between day-to-day server operations (70%) and project engagement (30%), subject to change based on organizational needs. You will be a Senior member of our global server operations team who is responsible for managing and providing support for our services hosted in multiple regions within the Microsoft Azure environment. As a Senior engineer, you will serve as an escalation point for other systems engineers and you will be responsible for coaching and mentoring other team members and guiding them accordingly. You will be responsible for collaborating closely with cloud architects, database administrators. network administrators, security administrators, application teams, as well as other roles within the organization. As part of providing support to a global environment, you will be part of an On-Call rotation that leverages several engineers in their respective US and European time zones.

This is a hybrid office-based position located out of our Toronto location.
Remote working days are Monday and Fridays.
In-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
5+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud offerings in a system engineering and operations capacity that has focused mainly on infrastructure and systems technologies. Ability to design and implement Azure native solutions to reduce the need for 3rd party toolsets.
~ Minimum 7+ years of production server engineering and operational support in a global environment that is predominately Windows (80%) with exposure to various flavors of Linux (20%).
~ Strong ability to create and maintain scripts, utilizing toolsets/languages such as PowerShell , YAML, KQL, bash, JSON, Ansible, automating manual processes to create efficiencies in the standard operating environment.
~ Ability to Mentor other system engineers on core support and triage approach improving overall team development and the quality of delivered IT services.
~ The ability to pay close Attention to Detail, to understand requirements and follow established controls within the environment.
~ Strong communication skills ( written and verbal) to both a technical/non-technical audience.

Experience and knowledge supporting and maintaining DevSecOps pipelines in alignment with development and architecture for native cloud applications.
Ability to liase with the architecture team to present new ideas, design a solution and see it through to implementation.
Ability to create and maintain configuration, operational and control documents.
Previous experience working with Security and Compliance teams to provide evidence demonstrating compliance with operational controls.
~ Ability to identify areas of inefficiency, propose and implement standards and automations to reduce complexity, improving the overall framework.

~ Understand and control the operational costs associated with operating in a Microsoft Azure environment.

You need to be accountable, creative, and ambitious, taking an outside of the box thinking approach to solutions. A dynamic and international environment that will provide you with the ability to learn, operate and manage a variety of technologies. Opportunities to work collaboratively on projects in many different aspects and implementing improvements related to Operations. We empower our employees to help you develop and grow as it aligns with your responsibilities and justification for improvements and needs within IT. Medical
Dental
Paid Holidays
Floating Holidays
Summer Fridays
Flexible Work Hours

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best.



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