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SalaryDevOps Engineer - Insurance - Contract - Hybrid
DevOps Engineer
Guidewire Cloud Console, Azure, Agile
Insurance
Birmingham/ Hybrid
Contract
6 months initially
Up to GBP675 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 GBP675 per day (outside IR35)
