Senior DevOps Engineer

Qualifications & Experience

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps — Repos, Pipelines (YAML), Boards, Artifacts, self-hosted agents and service connections. • Expert-level Git: branching strategies, branch policies, pull request workflows, tagging and versioning, merge and rebase, cherry-picking and rollback. • Strong track record of designing and running automated deployment pipelines into production in a controlled, audited environment. • Demonstrable release management experience, including change control, release governance and stakeholder coordination. • Experience of database change management tooling and state-based deployment approaches. • Strong working 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, scripting (for example PowerShell, Bash or Python) and monitoring/alerting tooling. • Understanding of networking, certificates and security scanning tooling is an advantage. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Knowledge of reinsurance or insurance industry concepts is a bonus.

Technologies

Key Skills & Behaviours

• Demonstrates an appropriate level of technical skill for the role and an appreciation of current issues affecting their profession and the life reinsurance industry. • Takes responsibility for the quality, completeness and accuracy of own work and that of the team under them. • Able to prioritise competing requests and deadlines. • Provides accurate and timely updates on status of work and escalates issues appropriately. • Committed to being an open and fair team member who shares information, knowledge and experience openly. • Communicates in a clear and practical manner both verbally and in writing, without over-reliance on technical language. • Challenges the status quo and is not limited by historical thinking or embedded practices; critically evaluates and challenges current work practices. • Embraces change and can work in a fluid environment with challenging deadlines: able to be flexible and resourceful. • Team player: able to work with people with a diverse range of skills and experiences and get the best out of every individual. • Agile approach to projects; able to demonstrate the ability to think ahead and always focus on the end goal.
• Working For Pacific Life Re
• Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
• Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.
• Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)
• Leave
• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Healthcare
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• Savings & Retirement
• 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Wellness
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations
• You Can Be Who You Are
• We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
• As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.
• Pacific Life Re Values
• Please click here to view our company values