DevOps Engineer III - Sequel Re

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Specialty Business Solutions

Company Description

For the past 25 years, Sequel Business Solutions has grown to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. With our headquarters based in the City of London , and our development hub in Malaga, Spain, we employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients' business. To learn more about Sequel, please visit us at: https://sequel.com/. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies! 

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.   

Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.  

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.  

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.   

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do. 

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the fifth consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce.  Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.  

Job Description

DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support. DevOps is also characterized by operations staff making use many of the same techniques as developers for their systems work.

This role’s main purpose is to increase a product team’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity, via a combination of automation, tools, process changes, practices, etc.

Following the foundations of the DevOps I and II, the DevOps Engineer III is the main point of contact within a product team for all the DevOps activities. This role is a key part of the Software Development/Testing Lifecycle, being an active part of technical reviews and maintaining the roadmap in that product team, being an example for another DevOps and contributing to extend the DevOps Culture at Sequel.

  • Leads strategic improvements within a Development Team autonomously.
  • Design and implement of Build and Release improvements to the Development Team.
  • Work closely with products and architecture team to design and support new architectures (containers, microservices, serverless).
  • Design and implement new automation tools.
  • Define and deliver DevOps strategic improvements.
  • Assist with providing third-level support to business users.
  • Work on new and existing applications along with enhancements to websites, web applications, and infrastructure.
  • Write design technical documents.
  • Participate actively on reviews and technical design meetings and provide valuable feedback.
  • Mentor other DevOps Engineers (levels I, II).
  • Run training sessions for Development Teams so the knowledge on the CI/CD tools and processes are understood.
  • Suggests new tools and participates in the evaluation of those.
  • Takes responsibility for the delivery of the changes coordinating people in the team.
  • Responsible of the follow-up of the implementation of the strategic improvements and best practices in each DevOps team.
  • Write design technical documents. Makes sure all the key processes are documented.
  • Share information in DevOps forums.
  • Completes all special projects and other duties as assigned.
  • Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred in Computer Science or other relevant field and extensive related experience.
  • Working knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle.
  • Good knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts, testing pyramid and design patterns.
  • Good knowledge of functional programming concepts.
  • Good knowledge of SQL Server administration.
  • Good knowledge of infrastructure/application level monitoring services.
  • Good knowledge of Container architectures, good practices and know-how, including container orchestrator services like Kubernetes and Swarm.
  • Deep understanding of Version Control System (migrate between VCS, troubleshoot issues with VCS, analysing performance issues).
  • Deep understanding of Build and Package process (understanding dependency issues, managing framework updates, analysing performance issues, optimize packaging process).
  • Deep understanding of Release process (zero-downtime deployments, after-release testing, analyzing performance issues, application monitoring).
  • Good understanding of infrastructure concepts (performance analysis, post-mortem analysis).
  • Ability to do a risk analysis.
  • Ability to provide estimates and provide cost-based design.
  • Ability to review other team members work.
  • Demonstrated ability to implement new automation tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to improve CI/CD process.
  • Demonstrated ability to write technical documents including database design, application design and ongoing documentation of changes and modifications.
  • Demonstrated ability to spread knowledge across the team.
  • Set measurable goals and meets them.
  • Good communication skills. Ability to lead stand-ups, retrospective and technical review meetings.

Additional Information

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