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Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS
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GAIC Great American Insurance Company
Cincinnati, OH (In Person)
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Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow. At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best. P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes. IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures, The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors. Great American's culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. To support this, employees in this role are expected to be on-site a minimum of two days a week, with the potential to work three days remotely. Core in‑office days are Tuesday and Thursday but will be determined by business needs. Cloud Strategy and Architecture Design solutions using AWS and related cloud technologies. Define and enforce architecture standards for distributed microservices and serverless environments. Architect solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, SageMaker, RDS (Aurora MySQL), DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis Firehose, EventBridge, CloudFormation, CDK, CodePipeline. Promote re-use through shared templates and solution components, leveraging Terraform and AWS CDK. Guide teams on AWS shared services, automated deployments, and immutable/disposable infrastructure patterns. Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions throughout the lifecycle of cloud infrastructure solutions. Analysis and Decision Making Translate business, information, and technical requirements into architectural blueprints for AWS-centric solutions. Stay current on competitive insights and evolving cloud trends, including serverless, containerization, and managed services. Analyze and resolve integration, compatibility, and multi-platform issues. Evaluate solution possibilities and architectural options based on feasibility and impact. Technical Leadership Provide technical direction and leadership to engineering teams, including mentoring and reviewing as-built configurations. Lead requirements gathering and solutions analysis sessions, especially for custom software and data pipeline projects. Guide teams in building and maintaining microservices, serverless APIs, and data science workflows using AWS SageMaker, Glue ETL, and Athena. Oversee logging, monitoring, and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, SNS, and CloudTrail. Required Technologies and Functions Deep expertise in