Senior DevOps Engineer

Munich Re; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that leads in analytics and technology solutions in the insurance sector. As a Senior Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure while collaborating with a diverse team of experts. This innovative firm offers a hybrid work environment, ensuring a balance between collaboration and flexibility. You will have the opportunity to drive complex projects, enhance DevSecOps practices, and lead teams through influence. With a focus on continuous learning and development, you will thrive in an engaging workplace that values your contributions and supports your growth.

Benefits

Flexible health and dental benefits

Hybrid work environment

Learning and development programs

Generous time off

Company-paid pension plan

Employee Referral Program

Recognition & Rewards Platform

Maternity and Parental Leave top-up

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and container orchestration platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure for applications and machine learning workloads.
• Develop internal tooling and automation to improve DevSecOps practices.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical abilities

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Linux knowledge

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

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 a 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 seek 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.