Cloud/Infrastructure Architect

Employment Type: Full time

Location: Jacksonville, Florida Location Type: On-site with remote flexibility

Position Overview

Kemper is a leading specialized insurer dedicated to making a positive impact on customers' lives. We foster a high-performing culture with opportunities for personal development, professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance. As a Cloud/Infrastructure Architect, you will provide architecture leadership across multiple infrastructure teams. You will collaborate with IT and Application/Development teams to define their architecture roadmaps, solution architectures, detailed designs, and hands-on engineering and development. This role may also involve vendor relationship management, product evaluations, strategic platform planning, and ensuring alignment with overall DevOps and Cloud strategy.

Responsibilities

• Work with Senior IT and Business Managers to define the strategic roadmap.
• Support infrastructure and development teams in their system endeavors.
• Collaborate with other members of the Enterprise Architecture teams on technologies and approaches.
• Participate in Proof-of-Concept work to evaluate platforms and capabilities.
• Lead teams through the initial stages of a program and assist through the execution phase.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively more responsible work experience in a technical discipline.
• Proven experience in designing and engineering large-scale enterprise solutions in a technical engineering lead, solution architecture, application architecture, or enterprise architecture role.
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Experience with Cloud/Infrastructure performance analysis and tuning.
• Desirable Experience:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Cloud Migration
  • DevOps
  • Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Focus on business outcomes

Company Information

Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.

Important Information for Applicants

• Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper, and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
• Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email.
• Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, please delete it.

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