DevOps Lead (Digital Engineering)

Company Background

Our client is a leading life insurance company, part of a global financial services group. The company provides a range of financial products, including annuities and life insurance, delivered through a large nationwide network of agents.

Project Description

The project focuses on ensuring quality and reliability of systems within the financial domain, including validation of business-critical workflows and data processing.

Technologies

• Databricks
• Azure services, Azure DevOps
• Git, Azure CLI, PowerShell, YAML
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
• SonarQube, Prisma Cloud.

What You'll Do

• Lead and maintain DevOps practices, standards, and procedures across onshore and offshore teams;
• Support Business-as-Usual operations and Disaster Recovery readiness across environments;
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, including multi-stage pipelines, reusable templates, gated deployments, approvals, and release strategies;
• Manage release processes, including variable groups, deployment approvals, blue-green/canary deployment approaches, and production release readiness;
• Integrate DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines, including static code analysis, software composition analysis, and security controls;
• Administer and support Azure cloud resources, including monitoring, logging, secrets management, permissions, networking, and database administration;
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and related deployment tooling;
• Support Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform;
• Monitor pipeline health, deployment logs, environments, and production systems, identifying and resolving issues proactively;
• Troubleshoot issues across development, staging, and production environments, including incident coordination with internal IT teams and vendors such as Microsoft or Databricks;
• Maintain architectural, operational, support, DR, and BCP documentation, including dashboards, wikis, runbooks, and code review documentation;
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, CISO/Security, development teams, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable delivery processes;
• Mentor developers and team members on DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and operational best practices.

Job Requirements

• Strong experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar role;
• Experience leading DevOps practices, standards, and procedures across distributed teams;
• Mandatory experience with Databricks;
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps YAML and/or classic pipelines;
• Strong knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment best practices;
• Strong experience with Azure administration, including monitoring, security, networking, database support, Azure CLI, and PowerShell scripting;
• Experience with Azure DevOps administration, including project configuration, service connections, access management, and pipeline governance;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized application deployment;
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools;
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including static code analysis and software composition analysis tools such as SonarQube, Prisma Cloud, or similar;
• Experience troubleshooting issues across multiple environments, including production incidents;
• Experience with Argo CD is a plus;
  
• Ability to mentor developers and promote DevOps and DevSecOps best practices;
• Availability to provide on-call support from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CST, with an expected response time within 30 minutes during the on-call schedule;
• English level: B2 or higher;

What Do We Offer

The global benefits package includes:

• Technical and non-technical training for professional and personal growth;
• Internal conferences and meetups to learn from industry experts;
• Support and mentorship from an experienced employee to help you professional grow and development;
• Health insurance;
• English courses;
• Sports activities to promote a healthy lifestyle;
• Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid opportunities;
• Referral program for bringing in new talent;
• Work anniversary program and additional vacation days.