Job Type:
Permanent
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
The Role
The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our Enterprise Engineering team. You will play a crucial role in empowering other teams across the organisation to adopt and implement engineering and DevSecOps practices. We are looking for someone who will promote a culture of collaboration and reuse to create a more cohesive and efficient working environment.
Key Responsibilities
Provide support to platform, development and operations teams helping them adopt best practices and tools for DevOps
Automate repetitive tasks and encourage adoption within CI/CD pipelines
Propose and implement time-saving initiatives
Document and train teams on how to monitor and troubleshoot any issues that arise
Integrate security practices at every stage of development and deployment processes
Help to commoditise cloud services and development teams deliverables where possible
Identify engineering limits, bottlenecks and tipping points before they’re reached
Drive the DevOps principles and culture across the organization
Person Specification
Mandatory skillset:
Experience of working as an engineer, working on solutions in Azure, GCP and on-premise
Experience with Terraform
Experience setting up and working with Ansible and Azure DevOps pipelines
Experience working on solutions with integrations between GCP and Azure
Knowledge of Cloud native, microservices and containerized systems
To have a strong desire for continuous improvement and an Agile way of working
Ideally in addition:
Commercial hands-on software delivery, including either implementation and on-going systems administration experience in a previous role using a variety of technologies, or, build and deployment engineering with modern practices
Sound experience in identifying, implementing and maintaining IT solutions / systems in regulated markets / industries
Proven accountability for delivering technical components of both IT or commercial projects and on-going “BAU” programmes
Knowledge and understanding of latest trends in DevOps methodologies, processes and tools, as well as emerging solutions and ability to apply them when appropriate
A strong interest and awareness of all cloud providers and their services
Diversity & Benefits
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
Working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.
Why Hiscox?
- Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.
- Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
- Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.
- After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave.
- Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.
Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture
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