Senior Systems Engineer

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Independently supports the global design, implementation, and maintenance of private and public cloud infrastructure. Provides guidance and expertise to management and users on topics surrounding strategy and best practices. Provides information guidance to colleagues with less experience. Solves problems through analysis of possible solutions using technical experience, judgment, and precedents. Highly proficient within discipline and contributes significantly to organizational objectives.

Principle Duties

• Design, develop, and maintain the physical infrastructure, network, and layout of a data center.

• Provides architectural framework for servers, hardware, peripherals, and connections. Implement standards and guidelines. Ensure adequate capacity for corporate computing needs and identify capacity trends.

• Provides technical support, provisioning, and automation capabilities for compute resources utilizing multiple operating systems and hardware technologies across public and private cloud services.

• Performs reliability testing and plan disaster recovery procedures.

• Performs operating efficiency and stability duties, implements the security and integrity of all systems and data, and respond to outages and other issues.

• Provides regular status, operational, incident, and change reports.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience - Required

Work Experience

• 4+ years experience managing data center resources and managing virtual hosting platform - Required

Skills and Abilities

• Strong ability to automate and maintain automation for core job functions. Skills in virtual platform management - Required

• Strong understanding of data center layout planning, networking, and life cycle management with experience installing, configuring, and automating multiple operating systems - Required

• Strong experience designing and implementing configuration management solutions across various operating systems and virtualization environments - Required

• Strong oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge with liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines with strong negotiating and persuasion skills - Required

• Strong investigative, analytical and problem solving skills with ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions - Required

• Strong ability to mange multiple projects, set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables - Required

• Strong experience working with Unix, Linux, Windows, and container based systems - Required

• Strong experience of configuration management utilities (Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Terraform) - Required

• Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Powershell, Bash) - Required

• Strong expertise planning and physically installing servers, including coordinating with network, storage, and third-party datacenter teams - Required

• Strong knowledge of trends in DevOps, micro-services, and automation orchestration - Required

• Strong knowledge of virtualization concepts and technologies including private cloud, public cloud, software defined infrastructure, and serverless architecture; domain and intranet management; understanding of multiple hardware vendors and technologies - Required

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.

Compensation Range:

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.