Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 10 to 15 years

Shift: 1.30 P.M. to 10.30 PM (hybrid)

Summary

Risk Technology team is made up of a cross-functional team of software development specialists, geospatial information specialists and catastrophe / financial model specialists who bring best-in-class analytics, thought leadership and expertise in designing, building and supporting industry standard risk analysis tools. A talented DevOps professional is required to join the function at Willis Towers Watson.

In this role you will

• Design, build and implement technical DevOps solutions to medium and high complexity projects.
• Build DevOps technology blueprints for applications built on multiple technologies like .NET, Python, PHP, Matlab, R, SQL Server, No SQL DBs etc. for our cloud offerings.
• Design Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines for complex technology landscape including databases, middle-tier technologies, and front-end applications
• Assess and identify technical gaps in the maturity of DevOps tools landscape and CI/CD implementations.
• Develop and enforce security standards, guidelines, and best practices for DevOps processes
• Support Specialized Actuarial and Cat Modelling AVD environment with ICT and Data Science Tools
• Assist in ensuring defined Application Service Management processes are followed for Incident Management issues, to include internal users and clients.
• Resolution of technical issues as needed, and/or validate recommended technical solutions.

This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key role in developing the change and support capabilities of a global financial services organisation, where the focus will be on practical delivery and reacting to the highest value business needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and Deploy Software architecture and practices (design/ development /deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• Participate in automation design, implement automation solutions using DevOps tools
• Provide visibility on application health, Azure usage by defining dashboards, metric log aggregation mechanisms.
• Document the standards and procedure
• Providing health-check recommendations for the ongoing fit-for-purpose state of our services through design and code reviews and oversight of the on and offshore development teams
• Configure and maintain SAST and DAST tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
• Support Azure Virtual Desktops and software
• Monitor and Triage incoming internal tickets and client emails
• Troubleshoot pipeline issues and optimize performance across environments.
• Assist in security incident responses and reporting

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Azure DevOps, version control tools for source code like VSTS/TFS and binaries like GitHub
• Proficient in managing CI/CD tools for each stage of pipeline including integrating with Unit Testing, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Static and Dynamic analysis, Compliance, Vulnerability etc.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and maintaining scripts using Power Shell, ARM templates/ Terraform / bicep scripts, YAML for Infrastructure as a Code for Windows and Linux
• Deep domain expertise of cloud application development solutions (e.g. IaaS, Serverless, API Management) Container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes etc.), the storage, compute, and networking components
• Experience configuring and supporting SAST and DAST tools in enterprise environments
• Excellent analytical, written, and oral communication and collaboration skills
• Ubuntu Linux skills a plus
• A grade communication and inter-personal skills

Also Desirable

• Graduate in quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Science or Computer Science)
• Azure DevOps / Cloud certifications
• Experience of working in a financial services organisation, preferably with exposure to the insurance industry/insurance broking. Where this directly relevant experience is not available, we will be looking for an ability to rapidly become effective in a new, unfamiliar environment