DevOps Engineer

Short description

To support the continued growth and momentum, we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the cross-functional software development team. Our ideal candidate is a dedicated professional, driven by the opportunity to revolutionize an otherwise repetitious industry.

ABOUT THE CLIENT:

Our client is a product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalisation, which supplies their partners from various industries – both from an insurer, as well as a non-insurer background – with in-house underwritten insurance products, which they market under their own brand. This modular insurance platform enables the company to tailor-fit and to supply these non-life insurance products in record speed. A diverse team with over 25 nationalities combines the expertise of the worlds of insurance and technology. Our client lives an agile and empowering company culture to work on ‘the insurance of tomorrow’.

YOU WILL:

• Collaborating with other engineers on special assignments we consider foundation topics such as: infrastructure, security, internal tools and quality
• Fostering and developing cross-team DevOps community
• Coaching developers in DevOps and AWS areas, enabling developers to operate their own tech services themselves
• Developing knowledge of company’s architectural skills, domain knowledge, and technical agile practices; so you will mentor and develop best practices throughout the various project teams
• Supporting and working closely together with Senior Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and Industry Specialists of numerous product delivery teams
• Applying DevOps/NoOps principles in an immutable infrastructure/infrastructure-as-a-code environment

YOU NEED:

• Strong comprehension of DevOps principles;
• Proficiency in Terraform
• Knowledge of the Java ecosystem (e.g. JVM, memory settings, etc.) – familiarity with the tools Java Engineers use and know to troubleshoot the process and host a Java process in production;
• Strong proficiency with AWS services: Fargate, ECS, Lamda, EC2, API-Gateway and much more with the knowledge of Continuous Delivery in Cloud Systems (ideally AWS)
• You have undertaken the design and implementation of several complex systems and consider yourself to be a “role model” developer
• You are a professional in distributed systems, domain driven design, and event-driven architecture
• Experience with setting up disaster-recovery processes ools (e.g back-up estoration, etc.)
• Challenges elate you and you are always eager to learn new things – specifically regarding the scalability and security of large IT systems and you revel in the idea of using cutting edge technology to complete them
• You are a self-starter, and you can proactively identify areas for systeminfra improvements and act as a stakeholder for such changes
• A pragmatic and efficient personality with a proactive approach to problem-solving: delivering high-quality work whilst keeping business value in mind
• Flexibility towards change, responding quickly and effectively to constructive feedback
• You prefer working in an Agile environment and are familiar with Agile Methodologies
• Your written and verbal communication skills are exceptional, and you are able to captivate and clearly convey information to both technical and non-technical audiences

WOULD BE A PLUS:

• Knowledge of Java programming, so you could cooperate closely with development teams and understand their tools
• Knowledge of how to operate Node.js-based tech services (e.g. resources utilization, etc.)
• AWS certifications
• Experience with AWS multi-account setup
• Finance or insurance industry experience

WE OFFER: