Senior DevOps Engineer

Gore Mutual Insurance; Cambridge; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual insurance firm is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Cambridge, Canada. In this role, you'll lead the DevOps strategy, managing cloud applications on AWS and Azure with responsibilities that include CI/CD pipeline management and automation tasks. Candidates should have 5-10 years of cloud experience, excellent communication skills, and a background in DevOps practices. This position offers hybrid work flexibility.

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Accessibility accommodations

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in cloud technologies with CI/CD.
• Experience in DevOps process and governance.
• Understanding of application performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain cloud applications and infrastructure.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Support GWCP releases and internal patching.

Skills

DevOps practices

Cloud technologies

Automation tools

Scripting skills

Communication skills

Education

Undergraduate degree in Information Technology

Certifications in AWS and Azure

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Overview

Next Horizon is here. Fueled by investments in talent and technology, our bold strategy to transform is nearly complete.

At Gore Mutual, we’ve always set ourselves apart as a modern mutual that does good. Now, we’re proudly building on that legacy to transform our company—and our industry—for the better.

Our path forward sharpens our focus on business performance, driven by leading technology, innovation and an agile, high-performing culture. With Gore Mutual and Beneva announcing their intent to merge in 2026, we’ll be uniting two well-established, financially strong, and trusted brands to become the strongest mutual insurer in Canada, ensuring Canadians have purpose-driven insurance options for generations to come. Come join us.

Are you inspired by innovation, and eager to shape the future of insurance?

Join a fast-growing Canadian P&C insurer where you'll play a pivotal role in leading Gore Mutual’s DevOps strategy, enabling secure, stable, and scalable delivery of applications and infrastructure across the enterprise. This role is key to Gore DevOps CoE and responsible for rolling out industry standards across all Gore’s DevOps tools and pipelines.

What will you do?

Manage and Maintain Cloud applications and Infrastructure

• DevOps Engineer with more than 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Configuration management
• Investigate and resolve issues related to the application, infrastructure, or deployment pipelines.
• Implemented best practices to develop backup and recovery techniques for applications on AWS and Azure platform.
• Supporting and maintaining AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure
• Containers and clustering technologies (Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift)
• Source control and build/dependency management systems (Azure Pipelines, TeamCity, Bitbucket and Maven)
• Understanding of application performance, security, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience with monitoring technologies, as well as hands on experience instrumenting alerts.
• Identify and implement performance monitoring and alerting solutions

Application and Infrastructure building

• Build, implement and manage environment solutions for Gore applications across Azure and AWS.
• Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Contributing to the design of application and systems
• Follow Gore release management processes and standards.
• Work with vendor DevOps team to build and evolve Gore’s CI/CD pipeline

Automation and supporting Gore’s cloud journey.

• Identify and leverage appropriate tools for automating manual and routine tasks.
• Building and supporting high availability solution and platforms
• Monitor emerging technologies and cloud provider options in the market and provide inputs to improve Gore cloud presence.

Release and Deployment support.

• Support GWCP releases and propagation.
• Internal and vendor patching support.
• Support Infrastructure maintenance activities

What will you need to succeed in this role?

• An undergraduate degree in Information Technology and certifications in AWS and Azure will be an asset.
• 5-10 years of experience in cloud technologies with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment ,Configuration management experience and Cloud computing platforms (AWS and Azure)
• Experience in the creation of DevOps process, governance, and compliance highlighting the benefits of DevOps to other technology teams and helping drive adoption to increase DevOps maturity.
• Prior experience representing DevOps at the CAB and other technical meetings.
• Understanding of application performance, security, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Source control and build/dependency management systems (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket and Maven)
• Exposure to Containers and clustering technologies (Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift)
• Relational and non-relational databases (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MySQL, Oracle DB)
• Experience with Infrastructure as a code (IaC) (Terraform and CloudFormation),ELK Stack including ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana
• Understanding of application performance, security, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Monitoring and Logging tools with strong scripting skills
• Ability to quickly learn new platforms, languages, tools, and techniques as needed.
• Guidewire and InsurCloud knowledge will be an asset.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Accessibility for applicants

Gore Mutual Insurance Company is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities during all phases of the recruiting process, including the application process.

If you require accommodation because of a disability, we will work with you to meet your needs. Contact us and a human resources representative will consult with you to determine an appropriate accommodation.

Should you request an accommodation during the interview process, please notify your Talent Acquisition Consultant.

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