Lead DevOps Engineer

About the team

Magnum is an automated underwriting solution built by Swiss Re and helps 70+ insurers across the globe to automate the risk assessment in their Life and Health insurance transactions. Magnum is a market-leading software for automated underwriting worldwide, recognized by The Forrester Wave™ as a leader in Automated Life Insurance Underwriting Engines. Magnum is catering to a fast-growing base of installed clients with dedicated teams across the world, from the US to Europe and Asia. Our ambition is to best serve our clients and achieve balanced growth of Magnum products.

About role

To maintain ground-breaking propositions for Magnum and support the next wave of innovations, we are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer – Product Engineering who passionate about software architecture and is driven to pursue excellence in delivering premier InsurTech solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for DevOps engineers in the team
• Work closely with product owner and cloud solution architect to design, build and release sustainable and scalable cloud infrastructure (Azure, AliBaba)
• Act as a single point of contact with other stakeholders when it comes to DevOps topics in multi-cloud SW solutions
• Continuously search for improvements and suggestions on how to better apply DevOps best practice and strategies within cloud SW solutions
• Delegate tasks to your team and make sure about delivery quality supporting agile rituals
• Lead by example being a hands-on DevOps leader
• Write infrastructure as a code using Terraform
• Design and maintain CI/CD practice and tools
• Improve deployments, monitoring and intervention strategies to guarantee cloud infrastructures to meet their non-functional requirements
• Continuously consider and include security best practice in the infrastructure

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines, infra-automation, monitoring tools etc.).
• Bachelor's degree level or equivalent in computer science or related field, Master's is a plus
• Linux fundamentals, shell scripting, YAML, Groovy, REST API's, networking and security (VPNs, SSl/TLS certificate management, firewalls etc.).
• Automation tools such as Terraform.
• Terraform provisioning & help deployments.
• Package repo configuration (Artifactory or Nexus)
• Subversion and Git repository administration (GitHub)
• Containerization technologies (Docker with CLI, Kubernetes including setting up of resources such as Services, Pods, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress etc.).
• Continuous integration and delivery pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Kustomize/Helm,ArgoCD/FluxCD/Fleet etc.).
• Code quality tools (SonarQube) setup and maintenance).
• Cloud concepts (IaaS/PaaS/CaaS/DBaaS, infrastructure-as-code).
• Azure AD Domain Services Active Directory on-premises and Azure IaaS.
• Monitoring Azure, Monitor Log Analytics, Alerts Metrics azure Management Governance Policy, Azure Automation.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines and Azure boards.
• Storage accounts recovery, Services Vaults, Key Vault, Azure Backup lambda & server less architecture components
• Logging frameworks (ELK, Grafana/Loki etc.)
• Infrastructure and application monitoring and analytics tools (Prometheus/Splunk/Tableau etc.).
• Microsoft Azure cloud technologies.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.)
• Experience in DevSecOps implementation projects as Engineer.
• Have already led or has the ambitious to became a Tech lead in DevOps space.