DevOps Engineer

The Role

The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our You will be a member of a team which includes DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering & DevSecOps. As well as a member of a Platform Engineering squad which are responsible for the Continuous Improvement over our cloud and on-premises platforms. We look for opportunities to do things smarter, cheaper, quicker, and ensuring everything we do can be re-used by our development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the pipelines for publishing code to Azure

• Oversee and coach squads in intra-day deployments mechanisms

• As part of the chapter drive the DevOps principles and culture across London Market squads

• Coach and influence engineers to DevOps maturity

• Oversee and direct the vendor DevOps and Infrastructure resources

• Create and maintain Azure infrastructure across all environments

• Propose and implement time-saving initiatives

• Create and maintain monitoring at all levels (infrastructure, app, data)

• Monitor issues and availability and ensure the correct escalation path is followed

• Monitor performance and propose improvements

• Implement auto-scaling of resources to meet the needs of the moment

• Collaborate with all London Market Chapters

• Help to commoditise cloud services where possible

• Identify engineering limits, bottlenecks and tipping points before they’re reached

Person Specification

Mandatory skillset:

• Experience of working as an engineer, working on solutions in Azure, GCP or hybrid cloud. Preferably with Azure DevOps.

• Experience with Terraform and Azure Resource Management Templates

• Knowledge of Cloud native, microservices, containerized systems, preferably with Kubernetes

• To have a strong desire for continuous improvement and an Agile way of working

Ideally in addition:

• Commercial hands-on software delivery, including either implementation and on-going systems administration experience in a previous role using a variety of technologies, or, build and deployment engineering with modern practices

• Sound experience in identifying, implementing and maintaining IT solutions / systems in regulated markets / industries

• Proven accountability for delivering technical components of both IT or commercial projects and on-going “BAU” programmes

• Ability to work as part of a small team that is part of a larger product division

• Proven communication and presentation skills

• Comfortable in a rapidly changing environment

• Able to articulate on processes and tools utilized to ensure quality, stability, performance, scalability, deployment, security, maintenance and documentation

• Knowledge and understanding of latest trends in DevOps methodologies, processes and tools, as well as emerging solutions and ability to apply them when appropriate

• Previous experience of application support and operations – understanding how to troubleshoot system issues and find a pragmatic solution in a timely manner

• A strong interest and awareness of all cloud providers and their services

• Some knowledge of the Insurance Market with Lloyd’s market experience particularly useful

• Creative, proactive, logical and innovative – you do not accept the status quo – and will push hard for innovation and automation

• Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment where the pace of response is critical to success