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.