Devops Engineer

 

Main characteristics

Location

London, London

Company

CFC Underwriting

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

At CFC we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We were delighted to be recognised in the 'Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2019' including a placing within the Top 30 for London!
CFC Benefits include 25 days holiday, Private medical insurance (plus dental and Optical cashback benefit), Life insurance scheme, Income protection scheme, Pension plan, Season ticket loan, Subsidised gym membership, 24/7 employee assistance programme and dress for your day. CFC social events include summer party weekend, Halloween and Christmas parties.
About CFC
CFC is a specialist insurance provider and a pioneer in emerging risk. With a track record of disrupting inefficient insurance markets, CFC uses proprietary technology to deliver high-quality products to market faster than the competition while making it easier for brokers to do business. Our broad range of commercial insurance products are purpose-built for today's risks, and we aim to give our customers everything they need in one, easy-to-understand policy.
Headquartered in London, CFC serves more than 70,000 businesses in over 80 countries. We're privately held and growing faster than any of our competitors in the market.
Although insurance is a serious business, our culture isn't too corporate and we never take ourselves too seriously. We are 'one-team' and enjoy a culture of openness and encouragement. We invest heavily in the learning and development of our people and enjoy a fast-paced working atmosphere that is friendly, supportive, and fun.
Role definition
Technology is a key differentiator to our business. After investing heavily during the last couple of years to build our technology function, we now need to look at driving greater efficiency and a faster delivery of value.
The role of DevOps Engineer is wide ranging, including infrastructure centric aspects of Cloud Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) through to optimising the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using techniques such as Lean and BDD.
Key to driving our technology strategy forwards you will build and continually improve capabilities that drive pace of change, and enable the business to test new products, pricing & ideas rapidly out in the marketplace.
Key responsibilities & Accountabilities
In conjunction with the Engineering and Development teams, help us evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling the business to deploy products and capabilities rapidly
Enable others do their jobs more efficiently by identifying and implementing new processes, approaches and technologies (for example CI/CD best practices, Infrastructure as Code etc.)
Help create and build the Technology Target state
Be a core player in the Cloud & DevOps Engineering space at CFC, focusing on providing platforms and capabilities for others to use
Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department
Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work
On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team
Work as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business;
Enterprise experience of Azure
Excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, especially relating to modern CI/CD
Excellent understanding of Infrastructure as Code / Desired State Configuration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
Good understanding of SQL database concepts and management
Experience with containers (Kubernetes) / service mesh / orchestration is a plus
Experience implementing and working with SRE concepts
Good understanding of Azure DevOps, especially in relation to automation and yaml pipelines
Excellent understanding of DevOps-centric concepts
Good general infrastructure knowledge, including networking basics
Good general development skills
A relevant degree with IT/Technology or equivalent professional certifications
Skills & Ability
Enterprise experience of Azure
Excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, especially relating to modern CI/CD
Excellent understanding of Infrastructure as Code / Desired State Configuration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
Good understanding of SQL database concepts and management
Experience with containers (Kubernetes) / service mesh / orchestration is a plus
Experience implementing and working with SRE concepts
Good understanding of Azure DevOps, especially in relation to automation and yaml pipelines
Excellent understanding of DevOps-centric concepts
Good general infrastructure knowledge, including networking basics
Good general development skills
Education & qualifications
A relevant degree with IT/Technology or equivalent professional certifications
The information contained within this job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the role. The role holder may be required to perform other related duties as assigned. CFC Underwriting Limited may at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as appropriate.