Automation 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.

Under limited supervision, supports the design, implementation, and operational reliability of enterprise systems and services. This role focuses on automation, lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, observability, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance of critical platforms. Works closely with engineering teams to optimize infrastructure, improve resiliency, and streamline processes through automation. Participates in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and compliance audits while contributing to documentation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Principle Duties

• Assist with lifecycle management of infrastructure and application services, including patching and version upgrades.
• Support vulnerability identification, reporting, and remediation across supported platforms.
• Monitor system performance and reliability; implement observability solutions (dashboards, alerts).
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations; conduct blameless postmortems and implement preventive measures.
• Provide user support via ServiceNow, Slack, and email; fulfill requests within defined SLAs.
• Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery strategies, and change management processes.
• Maintain and improve documentation for systems, processes, and operational standards.
• Collaborate on automation initiatives to reduce manual tasks and improve operational efficiency.
  
  

Education

Required

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

Required

Work Experience

• 1 years of experience developing application hosting architectures and services utilizing containers, cloud services, and automation.
  
  

Required

Skills and Abilities

• General ability to design solutions that are scalable, secure, performant, supportable, and cost effective
• General skills in identifying and eliminating unnecessary and mundane tasks to improve IT operational efficiency
• General abilities to simplify overly complex concepts and solutions for stakeholder communications; investigative, analytical and problem solving skills; ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
• General skill in at least one enterprise operating system
• General knowledge of application/data security best practices
• General oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge with ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
• General ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• General skills in customer relationship management and change management
• Ability to manage multiple projects or teams and set applicable goals
• Proficiency in container-based hosting architectures (Docker, Kubernetes) and automation using Python, Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, and Jenkins DSL/Groovy. Experienced in managing CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Vault) and implementing security best practices, load balancing, DNS management, and vulnerability remediation. Skilled in GitHub based code management, Agile methodologies, and observability practices including monitoring and alerting with DataDog, Grafana, PagerDuty, and Prometheus.
  
  

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.
  
  

Compensation Range

$87,050.00 - $131,450.00 Annual

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.