Cloud Operations Team Lead (Hybrid/Remote)

The future of insurance starts with AI. To date, Shift Technology's AI-powered products have benefitted more than 300 million policyholders globally by reducing underwriting risk, identifying more fraud, and automating critical tasks throughout the claims process. Shift harnesses the power of AI to enable the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products help insurers improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences to their policyholders. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and innovating solutions that impact insurers and their customers - like you! We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

As a member of Shift Technology's Infrastructure team, your role as a Cloud Operations Team Leader:

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team (2) of Cloud Operations specialists in US
• Will be tasked with serving as the primary point of technical escalation contact
• You will be responsible for being the point of contact for any operational escalations within the organisation.
• Ensure that the Incident management process is running as expected, and that the operations team is handling incidents in a timely and efficient manner.
• Operations team will be responsible for the Incident management process, so need to ensure the process is running as expected.

• Manage support tickets (changes, requests, incidents, etc.) and escalate to the appropriate resolution level.
• Monitor alerts and follow their evolution, escalate as needed.
• Manage cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, and OVH) and take care of the infrastructure backup and the backup checks.
• Maintain Linux and Windows systems, network, and security software/equipment.
• Apply security patches to the entire IT infrastructure.
• Deploy new client projects and infrastructure based on established requirements.
• Manage day-to-day infrastructure work and ensure that desktop computers are compliant with security policies.
• Cultivate great co-worker and client relationships.
• Available to work during weekends based on the team’s rotation schedule. (1 in 3 weekends)

Technical Abilities:

• Knowledge and experience working with cloud computing - e.g. Azure or AWS or GCP (Required)
• Networking and firewall expertise - VLANs, Zone based firewalling, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, URL filtering, IDPS (Required)
• Proficiency in Windows, Office, and Active Directory is required
• Infrastructure security experience - Patch and vulnerability management
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