Lead DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

Selective Insurance; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus plan eligibility

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Selective Insurance seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer with cloud expertise to accelerate value delivery. You will steer CI/CD architecture, automation, and secure release pipelines, supporting engineering teams across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will guide design patterns, implement IaC, and mentor teams to adopt best practices in modern deployment, security, and governance, enabling faster, safer software delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applications development experience.
• 3+ years designing DevOps pipelines with Azure DevOps, SonarQube, YAML.
• Experience as a DevOps engineer with focus on Azure Cloud Services.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Compute, Storage, Networking and Security.

Responsibilities

• Designs and leads Cloud-based architectures, networking, and containerization with IaC automation.
• Leads CI/CD design and automation, emphasizes reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Develops release pipelines, documentation, mockups, and collateral to convey technical outcomes.
• Evaluates DevOps solutions and designs integrations with existing systems.
• Acts as a strategic consultant and mentor for DevOps architecture across teams.
• Measures benefits and business value of DevOps improvements.
• Presents complex solutions across all levels, balancing leadership with individual contribution.
• Identifies gaps and modernization opportunities across SDLC processes.
• Debugs and troubleshoots CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery.
• Bridges development and operations, adding security guardrails without slowing velocity.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Azure Cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Security in CI/CD

Python scripting

PowerShell

Git version control

Terraform

ARM templates

Bicep

Tools

Azure DevOps

SonarQube

Terraform

ARM templates

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Bicep

Job description

About Us

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness. Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2025 and certification as a Great Place to Work® in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year.

Overview

Selective is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer with Cloud technologies experience to innovate and improve our ability to accelerate value delivery to our customers. As a key contributor to driving efficient development practices the successful candidate will help in defining and implementing best practices and patterns. They will work to identify opportunities to design, implement, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery patterns. As a hands‑on lead engineer, they will provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's strategy, architecture, and methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management. They will provide highly technical consulting and leadership for design, best practices, and development technologies and will advise organizational leaders on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.

Responsibilities

• Designs and leads the implementation of Cloud-based architectures, cloud networking, and containerization with experience in patterns/automation using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Designs and leads the implementation of CI/CD and other automation solutions and identifies design patterns with emphasis on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Creates and improves process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other collateral to convey technical details and association with requested outcomes.
• Leads the technical evaluation of DevOps solutions, understands existing industry DevOps solutions, and designs any required custom system integrations.
• Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teams.
• Measures and demonstrates the benefits and/or business value of DevOps improvements.
• Presents innovative complex solutions/ideas across all levels of participants and works in a team environment as both a leader and an individual contributor.
• Identifies customer, business and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders.
• Identifies gaps and proposes modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC
• Debugs/troubleshoots issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.
• Bridge development and operations by collaborating with engineering teams to seamlessly integrate security guardrails without slowing down software delivery or release velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in applications development
• 3+ years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube and YAML.
• Prior experience as a DevOps engineer with focus on Azure Cloud Services
• In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, and Azure Security.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines, that includes Azure environment provisioning tasks.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and security best practices.
• Experience incorporating automated security tools and vulnerability scanning directly into existing CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous compliance and risk mitigation.
• Experience embedding static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) into deployment workflows to catch security flaws early in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience implementing strict policy controls and repository whitelisting in deployment pipelines to prevent the use of unauthorized or unvetted external packages.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Strategic leader with experience successfully driving CI/CD implementations and DevOps process improvements in both green- and brown-field situations.
• Understanding and experience implementing key DevOps concepts, e.g. shift left, process improvement, continuous delivery, etc.
• Advanced experience in GIT repositories to support management and branching of code, implementing pipelines, release management
• Understanding of best practices to support company governance and audit requirements in support of full SDLC
• Self-starter who is capable of working independently and making decisions when necessary/as applicable.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and have the ability to mentor others
• Experience leading and influencing other technical leaders and collaborating with organizational leaders to build out multi-year technical visions
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels

Preferred

• Experience acting as a technical lead
• Experience with having worked in an Agile environment, preferably SAFe.
• Azure certifications
• Experience in Application Security / DevSecOps roles

Total Rewards

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and 20 days of paid time off. Additional details about our total rewards package can be found by visiting our benefits page.

Pay Range

USD $130,000.00 - USD $176,000.00 /Yr.

Additional Information

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual’s unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

For Massachusetts Applicants

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.