Cloud Architect, Ki
£95-110k
2-3 days a week in office (City of London, London)
Algorithmically driven insurance provider
Be an early applicant
Algorithmically driven insurance provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£95-110k
2-3 days a week in office (City of London, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To radically simplify the journey for brokers to secure cover for their clients by applying a fully digital algorithmically driven process to a 333 year old industry.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of working with Cloud technologies
- Experienced in overseeing the Cloud environment, including organization management, landing zones, and system configurations
- Experience of leading projects to improve the Google Cloud estate or create environments for mid/back-office systems
- Skilled with implementing and managing security policies and compliance measures within the Google Cloud environment
What the job involves
- We are recruiting for a Cloud Architect to join us at Ki. This is a pivotal role in our dynamic and rapidly expanding team, where you will be an active member of the Core Technology Group (CTG) and work closely with our Google and Microsoft specialists to ensure our cloud estate remains fit for purpose and takes advantage of future-thinking design principles. This role is crucial in supporting our ambitious transformation to a hybrid cloud estate, enhancing our infrastructure, and ensuring the security and efficiency of our cloud environments.
- In this role you will bring your experience of working within cloud architecture and approving architectural designs, whilst managing cloud environments across organisation management, landing zones, system configurations and environment provisioning for various applications and services.
- This role will be responsible for mentoring and training team members on Google Cloud tools and best practices, fostering an inclusive learning environment and working closely with the project teams to support the deployment and integration of SaaS solutions hosted on GCP or Azure. In addition you will liaise with external vendors and service providers to ensure optimal performance and support for Google Cloud services and will provide 3rd line support for Google Cloud issues.
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ki is an insurance provider looking to revolutionise the commercial insurance sector. It is entirely digital driven by algorithms, setting risk parameters and managing claims and exposure. It offers instant, on-demand access for users and clients, designed specifically with brokers in mind to evaluate policies and quotes using a platform optimised for efficiency and responsiveness. As part of this, Ki promises to follow leader's terms and always offers an instant line.
Ki is a Lloyd's of London syndicate for providing capital and accepting insurance risks, and was built as a collaboration between Google and specialised insurer Brit. It claims to offer the fastest route for brokers to receive a quote for their clients on the Lloyd's market.
Recent funding has allowed for extensive expansion of the company, and plans include further development into the company's algorithm. The company ultimately looks to establish itself as the centre of the specialist insurance sector to operate efficiently and seamlessly alongside the existing market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $500m
Company benefits
- 27 days annual leave (increasing by one day a year every five years to a maximum of 30 days)
- Eight Cultural and Diversity days – these are for you to take when there is a significant cultural or religious day that you want to celebrate rather than taking the UK’s standard bank holidays
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private medical insurance including access to virtual GP service
- Dental insurance
- Income Protection
- Confidential support from our Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee share ownership plan
- Financial wellbeing support
- Volunteering opportunities
- Matched payroll giving scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Up to 26 weeks’ paid maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
- Recognition and achievement awards
Company values
- You’ll be joining a team on an exciting journey - we are solving problems in our industry that have never been solved before
- Ki sits at the intersection between digital and physical. The technology we are creating has a real and tangible impact
- Ki has the agility, ambition and attitude of a start-up, with the stability, structure and scale of a big business
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mark Allan
(CEO, not founder)Previously a Non Executive Director for Simply Business and comparethemarket. Currently a Director at Sussex Capital and Executive Director at Brit Insurance.
James Birch
(Development Director, not founder)Co-founded Pluto and worked as a Director at InsurTech. Currently a Venture Partner at Hambro Perks and Head of Innovation at Brit Insurance.
Alan Tua
(Portfolio Director, not founder)Held a number of positions at Deloitte, ranging from Consultant to Associate Director. Was also Head of Analytics and Data Science at Direct Line Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ki
- Happy, valued and accepted. These three words capture how we like every employee to feel at work
- Our culture is one where you can be yourself. We think that if you bring your authentic self to work, then you will thrive, and we will too. Building a diverse and inclusive culture doesn’t happen overnight though. It’s a journey that our people are part of
- Take our People Forum for example. Employees can contribute to topics like race, identity, sexual orientation, belonging, disability and mental wellbeing. We encourage our people to meet across teams, share personal stories and understand different perspectives. It puts our people at the heart of shaping our inclusive workplace
- Supporting diversity initiatives such as Pride are part of our way of life here and we already have much to be proud of. Our Gender Pay Gap is similar to our peers and we actively look at ways to improve
- Our aspiration is to encourage everyone to be conscious advocates of diversity and inclusion. It is a very real business priority of ours. Together we will make this happen
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