Principal DevOps Engineer

Job Description
This role focuses on facilitating team self-service capabilities through infrastructure platform engineering, enabling development teams to author their own infrastructure while following established best practices and guardrails.

Responsibilities
Release Infrastructure & CI/CD Excellence

• Design and implement sophisticated release infrastructure enabling rapid, reliable deployments across multiple environments and regions
• Build enterprise-grade GitHub CI/CD pipelines supporting independent microservice deployments with advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, progressive rollouts)
• Establish automated release orchestration across the microservices ecosystem with dependency management and rollback capabilities
• Create pipeline-as-code solutions enabling teams to define, version, and manage their own deployment pipelines
• Build observability-driven deployment systems with automated rollback triggers based on SLI/SLO violations
• Architect and implement comprehensive Terraform automation for consistent environment provisioning and management
• Implement policy-as-code and compliance automation to ensure infrastructure authored by teams meets organizational standards
• Design and implement comprehensive DevOps metrics frameworks measuring deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics)
• Provide technical mentorship and training to help teams adopt platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices across the development organization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering with 5+ years leading release infrastructure and platform enablement initiatives
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise for enterprise-scale development workflows and repository management.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in relevant languages to facilitate automation, scripting, and platform development.
• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud.
• Proven expertise in building self-service infrastructure platforms that enable developer autonomy while maintaining operational excellence.
• Track record of technical mentorship and guiding engineering teams through DevOps transformation.
• Strong experience building and enforcing DevOps metrics and KPIs to drive organizational improvement and platform optimization
• Expert-level experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms supporting large-scale microservices ecosystems
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps for enterprise-scale development workflows
• Expert-level Terraform proficiency for building reusable infrastructure modules, state management, and automation at scale
• Experience with developer platform tools like Backstage for service catalogs and developer portals (strong plus)
• Experience with Flyway for database migration and schema version control
• Proven experience implementing DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and other DevOps performance indicators.
• Strong communication skills for technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• Proven ability to champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices

About Us
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.

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