Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 10 to 15 years

Shift: 1.30 P.M. to 10.30 PM (hybrid)

Summary:

Risk Technology team is made up of a cross-functional team of software development specialists, geospatial information specialists and catastrophe / financial model specialists who bring best-in-class analytics, thought leadership and expertise in designing, building and supporting industry standard risk analysis tools. A talented DevOps professional is required to join the function at Willis Towers Watson.

In this role you will:

1. Design, build and implement technical DevOps solutions to medium and high complexity projects.
2. Build DevOps technology blueprints for applications built on multiple technologies like .NET, Python, PHP, Matlab, R, SQL Server, No SQL DBs etc. for our cloud offerings.
3. Design Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines for complex technology landscape including databases, middle-tier technologies, and front-end applications
4. Assess and identify technical gaps in the maturity of DevOps tools landscape and CI/CD implementations.
5. Develop and enforce security standards, guidelines, and best practices for DevOps processes
6. Support Specialized Actuarial and Cat Modelling AVD environment with ICT and Data Science Tools
7. Assist in ensuring defined Application Service Management processes are followed for Incident Management issues, to include internal users and clients.
8. Resolution of technical issues as needed, and/or validate recommended technical solutions.

This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key role in developing the change and support capabilities of a global financial services organisation, where the focus will be on practical delivery and reacting to the highest value business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Deploy Software architecture and practices (design/ development /deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)
• Participate in automation design, implement automation solutions using DevOps tools
• Provide visibility on application health, Azure usage by defining dashboards, metric log aggregation mechanisms.
• Document the standards and procedure
• Providing health-check recommendations for the ongoing ‘fit-for-purpose’ state of our services through design and code reviews and oversight of the on and offshore development teams
• Configure and maintain SAST and DAST tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
• Support Azure Virtual Desktops and software
• Monitor and Triage incoming internal tickets and client emails
• Troubleshoot pipeline issues and optimize performance across environments.
• Assist in security incident responses and reporting

Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Azure DevOps, version control tools for source code like VSTS/TFS and binaries like GitHub
• Proficient in managing CI/CD tools for each stage of pipeline including integrating with Unit Testing, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Static and Dynamic analysis, Compliance, Vulnerability etc.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and maintaining scripts using Power Shell, ARM templates/ Terraform / bicep scripts, YAML for Infrastructure as a Code for Windows and Linux
• Deep domain expertise of cloud application development solutions (e.g. IaaS, Serverless, API Management) Container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes etc.), the storage, compute, and networking components
• Experience configuring and supporting SAST and DAST tools in enterprise environments
• Excellent analytical, written, and oral communication and collaboration skills
• Ubuntu Linux skills a plus
• A grade communication and inter-personal skills

Also Desirable:

• Graduate in quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Science or Computer Science)
• Azure DevOps / Cloud certifications
• Experience of working in a financial services organisation, preferably with exposure to the insurance industry/insurance broking. Where this directly relevant experience is not available, we will be looking for an ability to rapidly become effective in a new, unfamiliar environment