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 innovative products such as UW Ease. 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

As DevOps Architect you will be part of the technical leadership team supposed to enable product development teams with reliable and convenient testing and delivery capabilities, continuously lead, design, improve and implement our DevOps best practices, CI/CDs, and multi-regional cloud infrastructure according to strategic goals.

You would take ownership for the DevOps CI/CD infrastructure and common approach for our cloud deployments with support of a broader group of DevOps working respectively on their own products but relying on common tools and practice which you would help to lead and define.

This role requires a mix of strong hands-on skills, deep DevOps architecture understanding and DevOps visionary design capabilities as well.

Your responsibilities will be:
- Start by engaging with one or two key products to understand our work, and DevOps practices, tools, and standards. Work hands-on with a product team during their delivery lifecycle, provide tooling to support and optimize software development lifecycle, and learn how we work across the whole ecosystem.
- Mid-term, oversee our DevOps CI/CD infrastructure across products and teams. Collaborate with architects and squads to improve and optimize based on your design suggestions.
- Perform hands-on duties while identifying strategic improvements. Explore innovative DevOps methods to streamline CI/CDs and infrastructures, considering cloud costs, security, compliance, and requirements for high availability and scalable software solutions.

About You

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of the requirements. If you, however, meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of software development and IT Cloud, we will be happy to meet you.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced DevOps Architect with a background in Azure cloud, and proficient hands-on knowledge in AKS, Terraform, Azure DevOps. You should have good experience and structured thinking drive DevOps Architecture and building CI/CD implementation at scale (different integrated solutions, hundreds of environments). You should be a collaborative person, ready to drive the successful delivery of our innovative products, in a huge tech ecosystem.

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we´d love to hear from you:
- Overall 10+ years´ experience in DevOps with 2+ years in architectural role
- Experience in agile Environments.
- Must have excellent technical proficiency in... - Driving, designing, implementing DevOps Architecture
- System design, Infrastructure/Networking
- Azure Cloud Services from DevOps perspective (the more the better)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (and consequently Docker)
- IaC (e.g., Terraform, Arm templates, Helm)
- All about CI/CD from design to implementation (e.g., Azure DevOps and/or Jenkins, automation tools and practice, deployment processes)
- Automation and scripting (e.g., PowerShell and/or Bash and/or Python)
- Technical leadership attitude, capable to drive a vision forward
- Previous experience on leading and coaching other DevOps

- Preferable knowledge also about... - Security & networking (e.g., Cloudflare, Microsoft EntraID, Okta, OAUTH, network security, security best practice, etc.)
- Quality and vulnerability (e.g., SonarQube, Invicti, Aqua)
- Programming background with any OOP languages (e.g., Java, .Net) preferably with GO
- Hands-on experience with Maven and/or Gravedlel
- 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 60,000] and [EUR 100,000] (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.

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