Senior DevOps Engineer

Working in an Agile Environment, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for design, implementation and enhancement of tooling and process to automate the deployment of software development and Infrastructure as Code across Auto & General. This role sits at the intersection of Infrastructure & IT Operations, and Development teams and requires continuous innovation and process improvements to deliver reliable applications and resilient infrastructure for Auto & General customers. A key function of this role will be to reduce time to market for specific AI innovations and initiatives at Auto & General viewed through a cyber security lens.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Resilient and comfortable in influencing and communicating with all stakeholders about DevOps practice and subsequent culture shifts.
• Passionate about DevOps/Cloud/Automation and have a keen interest to solve complex problems in a systematic approach.
• You take ownership of a situation by being inclusive, collaborative with a positive attitude, and know how to iterate through a problem quickly.
• You enjoy collaborating closely with your DevOps peers and delivery teams to drive continuous improvements/deployments.
• Mindset for continuous learning and adapting to the ever-changing technology landscape.
• You have excellent people and communication capabilities to collaborate with all levels of stakeholders to drive a customer-first approach and ensure successful business outcomes from a cloud services aspect.

Technical skills

• Expertise in building and designing cloud platform/solution that enables rapid delivery of high-quality software.
• Proficiency with e2e automation with infrastructure as Code (Iac) (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
• Experience developing high-quality code in (Golang, python, bash shell)
• Experience with building and maintaining sophisticated CI/CD Pipelines & automation with tools like (Gitlab, bitbucket, bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, etc)
• Proficiency in driving DevOps function in software design and development
• Experience with git and implementing branching strategy, and release process.
• Experience with scaling containers (docker) and serverless architecture
• Experience in implementing and design of AWS cloud solutions in a commercial enterprise environment.
• Experience in Observability in complex distributed systems (New Relic)
• Experiences implementing security DevOps practices.
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate well within a team.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and decompose complex problems down into sprint deliverables in projects