Jobs / Verisk
Lead DevOps Engineer
Verisk · Norwich, ENG, United Kingdom
Norwich, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive compensation package aligned with market benchmarks and individual experience. Includes base salary and incentive opportunities. Benefits vary by location, typically including medical coverage, life insurance, pension plans, and paid time off. Fosters a work environment focused on well-being and career development, with perks like wellness initiatives, fitness programs, and team-building activities.
Location
Norwich, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to define and implement the strategic direction of the International DevOps function. This role involves shaping automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure strategies, mentoring a team, and acting as a primary liaison with AWS and internal DevOps teams.
Benefits
Medical coverageLife insurancePension plansPaid time offWellness initiativesFitness programsTeam-building activities
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other relevant field, or demonstrable related experience.
- Extensive experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Strong AWS expertise, including services such as IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
- Containerization proficiency, particularly Kubernetes and hosting platforms such as EKS.
- Experience deploying and maintaining database technologies, including Amazon RDS, Aurora, and SQL Server.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation (Terraform experience beneficial).
- Experience with automated deployment tools such as Octopus Deploy or similar CI/CD tools.
- Proficiency with Atlassian product suite, including Bamboo, JIRA, and Bitbucket.
- Strong scripting and automation experience in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or Splunk.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a proactive and analytical mindset.
- Proven leadership experience, including mentoring and team development.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across multiple teams.
- Experience with other cloud environments such as Azure.
- Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
- Background in highly regulated industries such as finance or insurance.
Responsibilities
- Define, maintain, and communicate the DevOps strategic roadmap, ensuring continuous improvements and alignment with business goals.
- Design and implement Build and Release process improvements for development teams.
- Act as the primary point of contact for AWS representatives and collaborate with internal DevOps team leads across other business units to drive consistency and knowledge sharing.
- Develop and implement automation tools to improve development and operational efficiencies.
- Optimize and streamline automation processes across development and operations.
- Lead proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives and collaborate with product teams for final implementation.
- Author and maintain technical design documents outlining key DevOps processes and solutions.
- Actively participate in technical design reviews and provide valuable feedback to engineering teams.
- Mentor and coach DevOps Engineers, fostering skill development and best practice adoption.
- Contribute to recruitment efforts and participate in resourcing discussions.
- Provide performance feedback for DevOps team members in line with job expectations.
- Monitor and assess the implementation of strategic DevOps improvements and best practices within teams.
- Organize and coordinate cross-product DevOps forums, facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Maintain and operate central development services, such as source code and package repositories, in conjunction with Infrastructure teams.
- Ensure compliance with Verisk security best practices, cloud governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Support ongoing incident response and resolution, ensuring high availability and reliability of DevOps services.
Skills
AWSAzureBambooBashBitbucketCloudFormationCloudWatchEKSIAMJiraKubernetesAWS LambdaNew RelicOctopus DeployPagerDutyPowerShellPythonS3SplunkTerraform
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field
Languages
PythonBashPowerShell
Industry
InsuranceFinance
Relocation
No