About the Team and our Scope

At L&H Solutions, we build and commercialize cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for Swiss Re Life & Health insurance clients. We offer a portfolio of over six products, including established offerings like Magnum with over 60 active clients worldwide, and other innovative products. We are a SW house within Swiss Re.

Our team consists of more than 150 technical professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in multiple countries, working on these multi-regional, highly available solutions.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team. In L&H Solutions we do not operate and monitor productive infrastructure, rather we design and build them, leaving other teams to handle the operations.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in writing IaaC and identify himself solutions to automate deployments. Most important skills are PowerShell, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Helm, and constantly research and apply DevOps best practice.

Being a lead you will also help and guide other DevOps on delivering their tasks, collaborate with Engineering manager and Product Owner to ensure the product infrastructure is designed and adapted accordingly to changing requirements.

Your responsibilities will be:
- Solutionalize how to automatically deploy cloud infrastructure including networking, storage, compute, policies, monitoring, security, identity, functions, etc.
- Write PowerShell scripts for automation and management tasks.
- Implement and manage Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration.
- Create Dockerfiles to build container images.
- Utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) deployments.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and release management using Azure DevOps.
- Create and manage Helm charts for deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters.
- Continuously design how to increase infrastructure performance while keeping cloud costs under control.
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and support.
- Work collaboratively with development and operations teams in Agile environments.
- Manage backlog and prioritize tasks for the DevOps team in collaboration with Engineering manager and Product owner.

About You

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we´d love to hear from you:
- Overall 10+ years´ experience Azure as DevOps engineer
- Experience in agile Environments.
- Must have excellent technical proficiency in...- Proficiency in Azure administration and services.
- Strong experience with PowerShell scripting.
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization.
- Strong skills with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and release management.
- Experience managing teams of DevOps engineers.

- Preferable knowledge also about...- Programming background in any OOP language (preferred GO).
- Knowledge on security scan, authorization protocols, CloudFlare.
- Understanding of data fundamentals.
- Experience with APIM (Azure API Management).
- Familiarity with Okta for identity and access management.
- Knowledge of Cloudflare for web performance and security.
- Relevant certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400, Terraform and CKAD.

- Excellent Communication Skills in English, both written and verbal, to effectively interact with the team and collaborators.
- Proactive and Collaborative, with a strong sense of ownership and a willingness to go the extra mile to deliver quality solutions

For Spain, the base salary range for this position is between EUR 42,000 and EUR 70,000 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant´s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.