Senior DevOps Engineer

Our team, a software house within Swiss Re, develops cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for external Life & Health insurance clients. Our portfolio includes globally established products and those in growth or incubation stages. We utilize the latest technology and prioritize innovation to stay competitive.

Our technical team comprises professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in various countries, delivering highly available, multi-regional solutions used worldwide.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. Unlike other teams, we design and build productive infrastructure, leaving operations to others. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in writing IaaC and automating deployments, with skills in PowerShell, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Helm, and modern DevOps best practices. As a Senior, you will guide other DevOps engineers and collaborate with the Engineering Manager and Product Owner to ensure the infrastructure meets evolving requirements. 

Your responsibilities will be:

• Solutionalize how to automatically deploy cloud infrastructure including networking, storage, compute, policies, monitoring, security, identity, functions, etc.

• Collaborate with product developers to identify DevOps solutions for embedding software in a secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that meets enterprise standards.
• Create and implement DevOps solutions for automatic deployment of SW infrastructure, including disaster recovery strategies, operational manuals, and instructions for handing over maintenance to a separate team.

• Continuously assess and identify how to increase infrastructure performance while keeping cloud costs under control.
• Assess security policies, infrastructure requirements and changing guidelines to ensure keeping the SW infrastructure always compliant, resilient and secure.
• Lead a team of DevOps engineers, offering technical guidance. Collaborate with architects, managers, tech leads, and product owners to deliver solutions within the roadmap and SDLC processes.

About You

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% requirements. If you, however, meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of software development and IT Cloud, we will be happy to meet you.

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we’d love to hear from you:

• Must have excellent technical proficiency in…

• Usage and administrator of Azure services. 
• Strong experience with PowerShell/Bash scripting. 
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization. 
• Strong skills with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning. 
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and release management. 
• Experience managing teams of DevOps engineers. 

• Preferably knowledge also about…

• Programming background in any OOP language (preferred Java and/or Go).
• Knowledge of security scans, authorization protocols, CloudFlare.
• Understanding of data fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Okta for identity and access management. 

• Knowledge of Cloudflare for web performance and security. 
• General knowledge of Gitlab and/or Github DevOps practices

For Spain, the base salary range for this position is between EUR 60,000 and EUR 100,000 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
• the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

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