DevOps Lead - Digital Platform

This role is a key position within a newly built team responsible for the developing and supporting a digital platform across iptiQ. It will play an important role in helping to foster a culture of technology excellence, automation, digitisation and better exploitation of data to further enable and accelerate iptiQ's growth ambitions. We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Lead with strong tech experience that can play an important role leading the design and development of platform and related CI/CD pipelines and practices within engineering teams in line with agile working practices, as well as enabling adoption of DevOps culture for iptiQ and its operating entities.

Role Accountabilities

• To support OE's in realizing the benefits of the Platform through effective, agile DevOps and CI/CD practices
• To define, promote and implement technology best practice within the Platform team and promote the same more widely across iptiQ
• To drive a step-change in iptiQ's ability to change at pace through deployment automation, improved delivery frameworks and release management practices that are automated, scalable, flexible and compliant



Key Responsibilities
• To ensure iptiQ's evolving AWS cloud infrastructure delivers maximum business value by designing and implementing improvements to its support for the digital platform and related containerized applications, databases and other services
• To lead and facilitate a DevOps 'Community of Practice', ensuring development and infrastructure backlogs, standards, artefacts and guidelines include DevOps principles, as well as driving ideas and solutions that promote better ways of working
• To participate in architecture decisions and provide design guidance for current and future projects related to our Digital Platform and cloud infrastructure
• Provide internal and external 3rd level support related to infrastructure, Kubernetes, pipeline and monitoring aspects of the Digital Platform
• Become a subject matter expert on various topics, define processes and provide training and documentation for your colleagues
• Cooperate with different teams on IT project delivery by providing guidance, feedback and work on actual implementations of infrastructure and security requirements
• To foster understanding and support for DevOps practices amongst key stakeholders
• To take a keen interest in emerging and new technology and its potential application in iptiQ
• To be aware of and able to innovatively respond to the compliance, risk and regulatory controls

About the Team
iptiQ opens up attractive new risk pools through insuretech operating entities (OEs) within the primary insurance). As wholly owned businesses of Swiss Re, our shared mission is to help close the protection gap in the market and provide digital insurance solutions, primary insurance knowledge, new tools, and insights that will help reach new markets and offer new products.

As part of iptiQ, the Platform Team collaborates with the iptiQ OEs to support them in achieving their commercial goals by delivering innovative and effective digital capability for their distribution partners.

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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