Senior DevOps Engineer

Munich Re; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where you can leverage your expertise in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. This innovative role involves designing and implementing high-availability services, driving complex projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance our analytics capabilities. You'll be part of a dynamic team that values continuous learning and development, working in a hybrid environment that fosters both in-office and remote collaboration. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact in the insurance industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Company-paid health and dental benefits

Flexible health spending account

DC Pension Plan with employer contribution

Generous time off

Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up

Employee Referral Program

Recognition & Rewards Platform

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and container orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and major Cloud Service Providers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reliable cloud infrastructure for business applications.
• Develop automation processes to improve DevSecOps practices.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical abilities

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK Stack

Job description

At Munich Re, the Integrated Analytics (IA) team leads this effort in North America. Our multi-purpose team of data engineers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, DevOps engineers, underwriters, actuaries, and other experts work together to innovate and solve complex issues in insurance auditing and accelerated under-writing. Our Senior Engineers specialize in the creation and maintenance of the data-intensive, high-availability services needed to bring our industry leading capabilities to market.

Job Description:

• Design and implement highly available and reliable cloud & orchestration infrastructure for business applications and machine learning workloads.
• Work with diverse cloud native toolsets to rapidly and continuously deliver releases and deployments of our services to clients.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that scale across multiple organizational teams, providing a common secure and compliant SDLC to different application needs.
• Develop internal tooling, automation, and processes that improve the DevSecOps practices and minimizes manual intervention.
• Maintain cloud infrastructures using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), in secure and scalable manner.
• Develop and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively detect system issues and maintain SLA/SLO.
• Support daily operations, monitoring and security functions of the DevOps stack.
• Drive complex projects and work with product stakeholders and teams to deliver business goals.
• Lead the team through influence and consensus building and provide technical review and guidance to juniors and peers.
• Own self-development and seeks out opportunities to grow technical skillset aligned with job functions.
• Able to learn subject domains and operate as Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform/Pulumi/Crossplane or CSP specific templating tools.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipeline, with a preference for GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Experience working with a major Cloud Service Provider (CSP) such as Azure/GCP/AWS.
• Experience with networking fundamentals.
• Experience with cybersecurity fundamentals (e.g. information, application, data, network, identity).
• Experience with algorithms and software engineering.
• Experience working with Docker and other containerization tools and services.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Lead incident response, quickly triaging and mitigating issues, and coordinating cross-functional teams to resolve outages.
• Deep knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.

What Can We Offer You?

We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:

• An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development.
• A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days with Meeting-Free lunch hours and Focus Friday afternoons.
• A great compensation package including annual company bonus.
• Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day.
• Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account.
• Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic 5% employer contribution, plus optional company match.
• Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days.
• Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees.
• Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program.
• Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform.

Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.