DevOps Engineer
Hiscox
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lisbon • Portugal
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About the role
- Help to create, maintain, and secure the CI/CD pipelines for publishing code to cloud environments (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), ensuring fast, frequent, automated, and reliable deployments.
- Within you value stream, own the maturity of automation of all cloud and on-premise infrastructure setup and maintenance, utilizing tools like Terraform, Bicep, and Ansible to ensure environments are wholly scripted and consistent.
- Drive the adoption of DevOps principles and culture within the development squads, coaching and influencing engineers toward higher automation and continuous improvement maturity.
- Design, create, and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems at all levels (platform, application, data) to proactively identify issues and measure service availability and performance (ApDex, SLOs, SLIs).
- Actively participate in Incident Management, Problem Resolution, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) scenarios, working to find pragmatic solutions and ensuring preventative measures are automated.
- Review, propose and implement time-saving and cost-optimizing initiatives, regularly reviewing resource utilization and implementing auto-scaling to match demand.
- Ensure production and dev/test environments are secure, scalable, and resilient, with a focus on containerized and serverless systems, microservice architecture and highly-available data services.
- Automate security processes and security testing by implementing Security-as-Code principles and embedding security gates (SAST/DAST) directly within the CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments, designing, implementing, and operating security controls to ensure all solutions are secure throughout the design and building stages.
- Swiftly respond to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities, manage application security processes, and ensure security compliance is maintained across all environments.
- Collaborate closely with the Head of Governance & Architecture and Group InfoSec to enforce security and compliance standards in the cloud subscriptions (tagging, naming conventions, etc.).
Requirements
- Excellent knowledge of Cloud native services, and containerized systems.
- An understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses
- Expertise in setting up and working with Azure DevOps pipelines or similar tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet).
- Proven experience in a technical role covering DevOps and SRE responsibilities (4+ years preferred).
- Deep, hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Azure Resource Management (ARM) Templates and YAML and effectively managing state.
- Strong experience working on solutions in Azure and GCP (preferred) or hybrid cloud environments.
- Understanding of threat modelling, risk assessment techniques, and application security processes – experience using and implementing SAST and DAST solutions.
- Excellent experience of implementing and using various DevOps monitoring tools such New Relic or ELK – also understanding how to set up cost management monitoring in the cloud to ensure we are alerted to overspend and can optimise spend over time.
- You are interested, curious and aware of new techniques and tools that can accelerate the delivery of quality solutions – and are willing to experiment and adopt these when there is a valid use case to do so.
Benefits
- Hybrid working – you can vary your working location within your team charter to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need it.
- Training opportunities – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles.
- Flexible benefits allowance – you can spend on additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more…
- Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
- 4 week paid sabbatical after 5 years’ service
- Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformBicepAnsibleAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsSASTDASTmonitoring tools
Soft Skills
coachinginfluencingproblem resolutionincident managementcollaborationcuriosityadaptability