Verisk Analytics

The successful candidate will act as the primary liaison with our AWS contacts as well as internal DevOps team leads across other business units, ensuring alignment and collaboration on best practices and technical initiatives. We are looking for a seasoned and enthusiastic Lead DevOps Engineer to steer the strategic direction of our global DevOps operations. This pivotal role involves crafting our automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure strategies, while also guiding and mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers.

• 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.
• Optimise 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.
• Organise 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.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Computer Science or other relevant field and 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.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with CloudFormation (Terraform experience also beneficial).
• Automated deployment tools: Experience with Octopus Deploy or similar CI/CD tools.
• Atlassian product suite proficiency, including Bamboo, JIRA, and Bitbucket.
• Scripting and automation: Strong experience in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Observability and Monitoring: Familiarity with New Relic, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Splunk, or similar tools.
• 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.

Nice to have:

• 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.

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland. We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority. In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk’s minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.

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