DevOps Engineer

at  Zurich insurance

#ZCC

Zurich Capability Center is looking for:

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Define, design, implement and support DevOps solutions in compliance with the strategy and the group.
• Work with key stakeholders to understand the Cloud and CI/CD requirements.
• Create technical proposals to solve business and IT challenges
• Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings and provide guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits
• Perform analysis on best practices and emerging concepts in Cloud, CI/CD and DevOps.
• Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas and technology roadmap globally.
• Provide support for incidences and problems. Perform profiling, troubleshooting of existing solutions.
• Create technical documentation and implement solutions definition, patterns and templates in the platform

SKILLS

Functional/Technical Skills

As a DevOps Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• In-depth experience designing and implementing DevOps pipelines (including Containerization and Virtualization), Release management, Deployment automation processes and version control tools
• Extensive knowledge of software development and testing methodologies along with change and configuration management practices in multiple environments.
• Good knowledge of Cloud services, Kubernetes, networking, databases, middleware, web services and related standards
• Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences; own a collaborative, partnership mentality.
• Team player with a positive attitude, strong communication (English verbal and written) & interpersonal skills
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit
• Strong understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies and concepts

Technical Skills

• Professional experience with automated deployment, continuous integration, and release engineering tools – Ansible, Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, etc .
• Experience with some Cloud Services (Azure, Azure DevOps, etc)
• Experience with security protocols and practices (SSO, OAuth2, OpenID, certificates)
• Strong familiarity with GIT and other version control systems as software configuration management and Source Code Management tools.
• Experience with some programming language (like .net, Java, Python, YAML, SQL)
• Strong familiarity with scripting, or mark-up languages, like PowerShell Script, Groovy, JavaScript, Bash, Python, XML, HTML, JSON, or YAML in professional or academic environments
• Excellent Linux skills
• Experience with different OS, like CentOS (or other Linux distributions), RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server

Nice to have:

• Atlassian tools: Jira, Bamboo and BitBucket, Confluence

  Azure certifications

• Knowledge of Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Jenkins, Terraform, Helm, ArgosCD
• Experience with some CaaS: AKS, AWS ECS / EKS, OpenShift
• REST APIs development

BUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide the cost-benefit in the definition of solutions related to DevOps
• Look for opportunities to reduce costs

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure that work is carried out efficiently and effectively.
• Exhibit behaviors that show commitment to Zurich’s values and behaviors.

WHO WE ARE

Looking for a challenging and inspiring work environment where you can make a difference? At Zurich millions of individuals and businesses place their trust in our products and services every day. Our 53,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, enabling, businesses and communities to face a world of risk with confidence. Imagine if you could help people do this all over the world. You’d give them confidence and reassurance by protecting what they love most. It’s a big challenge, but you will be supported by a world-class team who believe in helping you to reach your full potential and deliver on our promises.
So be challenged. Be inspired. Help us make a difference.
At Zurich we are an equal opportunity employer. We attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability

Please refer the Job description for details