Jobs / Ignite Insurance Systems
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Ignite Insurance Systems · Norwich, ENG, United Kingdom
Norwich, ENG, United KingdomExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive compensation; eligible roles may include incentive opportunities. Typical benefits include medical coverage, life insurance, pension plans, paid time off, wellness initiatives, fitness programs, and team-building activities.
Location
Norwich, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer builds and evolves a platform that enables teams to develop, test, and deploy SaaS products independently and safely. The role owns CI/CD and progressive delivery for microservices and data workloads, automates AWS infrastructure with Terraform and AWS CDK, and advances reliability, observability, security, and delivery practices. It also supports incident response, tracks DORA metrics, and mentors engineers.
Benefits
Medical coverageLife insurancePension plansPaid time offWellness initiativesFitness programsTeam-building activities
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE roles.
- Deep expertise with AWS services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, and RDS.
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or a similar language.
- Experience designing large-scale CI/CD and release engineering, including progressive delivery.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK at scale.
- Production experience with Docker and Amazon ECS or EKS.
- Experience supporting microservices in distributed production environments.
- Experience establishing repository standards, governance, and security controls across multiple teams.
- Experience with observability tooling and production incident response.
- Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence without authority.
- Preferred: experience with Microsoft Azure, GitHub Enterprise governance, multi-region active-active systems, and disaster recovery.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve a DevOps platform for end-to-end build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
- Implement blue-green, canary, and progressive rollouts for microservices, data workloads, and batch jobs.
- Provision consistent, auditable environments using Terraform and AWS CDK.
- Define repository, branching, code quality, and automation standards across teams.
- Partner with architects and developers on scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region design.
- Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.
- Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews, and apply lessons to platform improvements.
- Introduce and track DORA metrics.
- Write documentation and runbooks, and mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design reviews.
Skills
AWSAzureAWS CDKDockerDynamoDBECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGoIAMJavaScriptAWS LambdaLinuxPythonS3SQSTerraformKubernetes
Certifications
AWS DevOps Engineer certificationAWS Solutions Architect certification
Degrees
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Industry
InsuranceLife, health, and travel insurance
Relocation
No