Senior Devops Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take full ownership of a wide range of infrastructure and tooling aspects, enabling multiple agile teams developing market-leading insurance pricing solutions. You will work together with engineering managers and product owners to refine and prioritize DevOps backlog, working closely with the engineering architecture group to develop new solutions in the cloud. 
This is a critical and varied role, using a wide range of technologies, combining strategic work with short-term tactical fixes and improvements. You will build upon our DevOps culture across the Product and Engineering organization, sharing modern practices and always challenging the status quo.
You will also line manage other DevOps Engineers and coach and mentor them.
The Role: 

• Manage the roadmap for your area. Make prioritization decisions and build trust with stakeholders by building an understandable, accurate roadmap
• Working with engineering teams to maintain and improve the existing continuous integration pipeline, optimizing and upgrading build systems on an ongoing basis,
• Extending and monitoring the various CI/build/QA/project dashboards to ensure they remain “green”,
• Debugging tooling and infrastructure issues or performance bottlenecks as required, and dispatching product-related issues to the teams,
• Participating in product design meetings to ensure the infrastructure required to support new product requirements is identified upfront and put in place in a timely manner,
• Working with the QA Leads to ensure Azure-based test environments are continuously optimized to execute a high volume of test cases in a fast and cost-efficient way,
• Designing, implementing and documenting test environments and frameworks, assisting in the design and implementation of automated tests,
• Keeping an inventory of the various tools supporting the development environment and continuously modernizing/upgrading them, providing guidance and instructions to the development team as required
• Participating in scrum meetings as relevant (e.g. sprint demos and retrospectives

The Requirements: 

• Extensive experience administering CI systems, creating build configurations and pipelines (VSTS/Azure DevOps, TeamCity, NuGet, MSBuild)
• Experience administering version control systems such as VSTS / Git and SVN
• Familiarity with Microsoft .NET development environment, Visual Studio
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell), software development skills using C# .NET
• Self-reliance, attention to detail, commitment to high-quality, ability to learn quickly and to innovate
• Strong problem-solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations
• Strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Experience of using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc.)
• Experience of cloud technologies (primarily Azure but also AWS), and of migrating on-premise infrastructure to the cloud
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems e.g. RHEL/OpenShift
• Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services
• Knowledge of security best practices and tools
• Experience of Windows & Linux containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• NodeJS, Angular, React
• MS Test or other unit testing frameworks, mocking framework
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline

Equal Opportunity Employer 
At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.