DevOps Engineer - Insurance - Contract - Hybrid
Birmingham
DevOps Engineer - Insurance - Contract - Hybrid
DevOps Engineer
Guidewire Cloud Console, Azure, Agile
Insurance
Birmingham/ Hybrid
Contract
6 months initially
Up to £675 per day (outside IR35)
My client, a leading specialist Insurer, is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their newly created Global Policy Admin inception team.
This role will suit an experienced Engineer with a strong proven background gained in all areas of the SDLC from design, development, testing, operations and infrastructure. You will have a passion for automation with an extensive experience within the Financial Services sector.
ANY EXPERIENCE WITH GUIDEWIRE CLOUD CONSOLE IS HIGHLY DESIRABLE
Key responsibilities:
Application and infrastructure planning and testing including integrations
Maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Automation implementation
Guidewire Cloud Console configuration
On-call, incident response and incident management
Monitoring the software development process through its entire lifecycle and ensuring adherence to security standards
Regularly updating or creating new processes to enhance performance and minimise wastage
Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
As expected in these roles, some out of hours and/or weekend work may be required.
Knowledge and Experience
Extensive experience within the Financial Services sector
Experience of cloud integration gateways (AWS or Azure)
Experience of DevOps practices and methods
Experience of Cloud technologies and CI/CD pipelines
Demonstrate a solid background and understanding of DevSecOps
A strong proven track record of implementing automated continuous delivery of enterprise services both on premise and cloud
Very strong interpersonal skills with ability to train and transform organisational culture
Strong understanding of application design, testing, development and architecture
Experienced in ways of working such as Agile Scrum, Lean methodologies such as Kanban and experience of Scaled Agile (LeSS, SAFe) would be beneficial
Deep knowledge required of following tools/technologies Containerisation tooling and management in particular, Docker & Rancher
CI/CD tooling such as Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Artifactory & GitHub
IaC configuration tooling such as Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Terraform
Hypervisor technology such as VMWare
Microsoft Azure architecture
Microsoft Windows Server (up to 2019)
Linix (any distribution)
Microsoft SQL Server (up to 2019)
PowerShell and/or other scripting languages
Fundamentals of software testing
DevOps Engineer
Guidewire Cloud Console, Azure, Agile
Insurance
Birmingham/ Hybrid
Contract
6 months initially
Up to £675 per day (outside IR35)