DevOps Lead (Digital Engineering)

Our client is a leading life insurance company, part of a global financial services group. The company provides a range of financial products, including annuities and life insurance, delivered through a large nationwide network of agents.

• Strong experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar role
• Experience leading DevOps practices, standards, and procedures across distributed teams
• Mandatory experience with Databricks
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps YAML and/or classic pipelines
• Strong knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment best practices
• Strong experience with Azure administration, including monitoring, security, networking, database support, Azure CLI, and PowerShell scripting
• Experience with Azure DevOps administration, including project configuration, service connections, access management, and pipeline governance
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized application deployment
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including static code analysis and software composition analysis tools such as SonarQube, Prisma Cloud, or similar
• Experience troubleshooting issues across multiple environments, including production incidents
• Experience with Argo CD is a plus
• Ability to mentor developers and promote DevOps and DevSecOps best practices
• Availability to provide on-call support from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CST, with an expected response time within 30 minutes during the on-call schedule
• English level: B2 or higher

• Lead and maintain DevOps practices, standards, and procedures across onshore and offshore teams
• Support Business-as-Usual operations and Disaster Recovery readiness across environments
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, including multi-stage pipelines, reusable templates, gated deployments, approvals, and release strategies
• Manage release processes, including variable groups, deployment approvals, blue-green/canary deployment approaches, and production release readiness
• Integrate DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines, including static code analysis, software composition analysis, and security controls
• Administer and support Azure cloud resources, including monitoring, logging, secrets management, permissions, networking, and database administration
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and related deployment tooling
• Support Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform
• Monitor pipeline health, deployment logs, environments, and production systems, identifying and resolving issues proactively
• Troubleshoot issues across development, staging, and production environments, including incident coordination with internal IT teams and vendors such as Microsoft or Databricks
• Maintain architectural, operational, support, DR, and BCP documentation, including dashboards, wikis, runbooks, and code review documentation
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, CISO/Security, development teams, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable delivery processes
• Mentor developers and team members on DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and operational best practices