devops engineer in life reinsurance

Enfint; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days annual leave

Private insurance coverage

Group Life Insurance 9x

Group Income Protection 75%

Gym membership

Employee Assistance Program

Volunteer time off

Pension contributions 15%

Job summary

Pacific Life Re, a global life reinsurance company, is undergoing a major back-office transformation. The Divisional Data Team develops and manages an enterprise-wide data solution with reporting services and governance.

The role focuses on owning Azure DevOps, building robust CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake and dbt, and coordinating end-to-end release processes with stakeholders. Strong emphasis on security, RBAC, and IaC across environments.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, including Repos, YAML Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, self-hosted agents and service connections.
• Expert-level Git skills covering branching strategies, branch policies, pull request workflows, tagging, versioning, merging, rebasing, cherry-picking and rollback.
• Strong experience designing and running automated production deployment pipelines in controlled and audited environments.
• Demonstrable release management experience, including change control, release governance and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience with database change management tooling and state-based deployment approaches.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, RBAC, masking policies and cost/performance optimisation.
• Experience with dbt and SQL in a modern cloud data warehouse environment.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, Bash or Python scripting, and monitoring and alerting tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own Azure DevOps organisation and project configuration for the Divisional Data Team; manage permissions and access models across repositories, pipelines and libraries.
• Design, build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake SQL, dbt models, and supporting scripts.
• Own database change management and state-based deployment across development, SIT, UAT and production.
• Maintain reproducible environments and IaC across environments; ensure rollback and recovery mechanisms are in place.
• Coordinate with delivery, testing and business stakeholders; chair change advisory and release forums.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

Release management

Database change management

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

IaC scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Monitoring & alerting

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Streamlit

Azure DevOps

Job description

Pacific Life Re is a global life reinsurance company undergoing a major back-office transformation. Its Divisional Data Team develops and manages an enterprise-wide data solution, reporting services, and data governance practices.

Задачи:

Own the Azure DevOps organisation and project configuration for the Divisional Data Team, including projects, teams, security groups, service connections, variable groups and secure files; Administer permissions and access models across repositories, pipelines, artefacts and libraries; Manage build agents, including self-hosted agent pools, capacity, scaling and patching; Use Azure Boards to plan, track and report DevOps work and integrate work items with commits, pull requests and releases; Manage Azure Artifacts feeds, package versioning and retention policies; Define, document and enforce branching strategies, naming conventions and promotion paths; Set and maintain branch policies, approval workflows, build validation and merge strategies; Own the pull request process, including review standards and approval routing; Define release branching, tagging, versioning, hotfix and emergency fix processes; Maintain merge conflict resolution, rebase, cherry-pick and rollback standards; Create, structure and maintain repositories, documentation requirements and repository standards; Manage repository security, protected branches, forks and cross-repository dependencies; Implement and maintain pre-commit and pre-merge quality gates; Manage repository hygiene, retention, archiving and repository migration; Prevent secrets and credentials from being committed to source control through scanning and remediation; Design, build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake SQL, dbt models, Streamlit applications, stored procedures and supporting scripts; Own database change management and operate state-based deployment across development, SIT, UAT and production; Maintain reproducible environments and infrastructure-as-code across environments; Implement automated testing, deployment gates, approvals and post-deployment validation; Ensure rollback and recovery mechanisms for failed deployments; Own the end-to-end release calendar and release process for the data platform; Coordinate with delivery, testing and business stakeholders; Chair or represent the team at change advisory and release approval forums; Prepare and submit change records, including ECRs, with appropriate evidence; Manage release readiness, environment lock-downs, dependencies and go/no-go decisions; Maintain an auditable release trail linking requirements, code, approvals and deployments; Conduct post-implementation reviews and drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore; Own RBAC design and administration across Snowflake and Azure DevOps; Implement and maintain data masking and PII controls; Manage certificate renewals, artefact repository configuration and remediation of security scanning findings; Embed IT controls and Business Control compliance requirements into delivery and release processes; Collaborate with data engineering, testing, reporting, architecture and IT infrastructure teams.

Требования:

Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, including Repos, YAML Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, self-hosted agents and service connections; Expert-level Git skills covering branching strategies, branch policies, pull request workflows, tagging, versioning, merging, rebasing, cherry-picking and rollback; Strong experience designing and running automated production deployment pipelines in controlled and audited environments; Demonstrable release management experience, including change control, release governance and stakeholder coordination; Experience with database change management tooling and state-based deployment approaches; Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, RBAC, masking policies and cost/performance optimisation; Experience with dbt and SQL in a modern cloud data warehouse environment; Experience with infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, Bash or Python scripting, and monitoring and alerting tools; Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders; Appropriate technical skill for the role and awareness of current issues affecting the profession and the life reinsurance industry; Responsibility for the quality, completeness and accuracy of own work and the team’s work; Ability to prioritise competing requests and deadlines; Ability to provide accurate and timely status updates and **escalate** issues appropriately; Open, fair and collaborative approach to sharing information, knowledge and experience; Clear and practical verbal and written communication without over-reliance on technical language; Ability to challenge existing practices and evaluate current ways of working critically; Flexibility and resourcefulness in a changing environment with challenging deadlines; Ability to work effectively with people with diverse skills and experience; Agile approach and ability to think ahead and focus on the end goal; Nice to have: Understanding of networking, certificates and security scanning tools, knowledge of reinsurance or insurance industry concepts.

Условия:

• 25 Days of annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private insurance coverage for the employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
• Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• 15% Combined employee/employer savings and retirement contributions
• Subsidised gym membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations
• Team building days, social activities and wellbeing initiatives
• Benefits apply only to permanent and fixed-term employees.