Sr. DevOps Engineer

If you’re looking for a role where infrastructure and automation support technology with a clear real-world purpose, Verisk’s Life, Health & Travel business offers exactly that. You’ll help power solutions used to automate medical risk assessment across life, health, and travel insurance, with the opportunity to influence cloud engineering, reliability, automation, and delivery practices at scale. You’ll have the technical ownership of a senior role while benefiting from the stability, international reach, and long-term career opportunities of Verisk.

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to shape the engineering platform behind our SaaS products. You'll build the standards, automation and self-service tooling that let product teams build, test and deploy independently and safely.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with real influence. Your work will directly improve how fast, reliably, securely and cost-effectively we deliver software.

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• Build the platform: Design and evolve a modern DevOps platform that enables engineering teams to own their build, test, and deployment workflows end‑to‑end.

• Own CI/CD: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) with advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, progressive rollouts) for microservices, data workloads, and batch jobs, emphasizing self‑service and repeatability.

• Automate infrastructure: Provision consistent, auditable environments using Terraform and AWS CDK.

• Set standards: Define repository, branching, code quality and automation standards across teams.

• Design for resilience: Partner with architects and developers on scalability, high availability, disaster recovery and multi-region design.

• Drive observability: Lead best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting.

• Improve operations: Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews and turn what you learn into platform improvements.

• Measure delivery: Introduce and track DORA metrics.

• Enable and mentor: Write clear documentation and runbooks, and coach engineers through pairing, code reviews and design reviews.

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE roles, with deep AWS expertise (IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS).

• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar.

• Proven experience designing large-scale CI/CD and release engineering, including progressive delivery.

• Hands-on Terraform and/or AWS CDK at scale.

• Production experience with Docker and Amazon ECS or EKS.

• Experience supporting microservices in distributed production environments.

• A track record of setting up repository standards, governance and security controls across multiple teams.

• Solid experience with observability tooling and production incident response.

• Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence without authority.

Nice to have:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.

• AWS DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect certification.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure.

• GitHub Enterprise governance experience.

• Multi-region, active-active and disaster recovery experience.

Our People, Our Culture

For more than 50 years, Verisk has helped property and casualty insurers make smarter decisions about risk through AI-powered risk modeling, advanced analytics, and technology solutions spanning the entire policy lifecycle.  We are a leading strategic data, analytics, and technology partner to the global insurance industry, guided by core values of learning, caring, and results while maintaining the highest ethical standards as stewards of the industry's most comprehensive datasets. Learn more about Verisk and what we are doing within the insurance industry. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, the fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and the second consecutive year in Poland. In addition, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

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