DevOps Principal Lead

Company Information:

What we look for
Our exceptional and motivated employees are our greatest strength. Our employees provide the highest level of customer service and help maintain our position as a leader in the global marketplace.

Markel Style
The Markel Style is what makes us stand out from our competitors. It's our core value which should underpin how we do business, while influencing our behavior and performance. We are looking for people who have potential and share our passion to live the Markel Style, which is described in more detail below.

If you think you have these core attributes we want to hear from you.

Job Summary:
As a DevOps Principal lead, you will work closely with the global cloud, architecture, security, and application teams and will be responsible for the technical innovation, and evolution of our core DevOps strategy leveraging both our existing DevOps services and looking ahead to new ones.

You will be a member of the existing global DevOps team and provide technical leadership to four DevOps/Cloud engineers helping to direct, guide, and mentor them. Helping to define the DevOps standards, policies, and processes for both the team and the organization to follow.

You will be expected to be fully hands-on, have a strong love of technology, and have a desire to learn more, maintaining awareness of industry trends, technical advances, and new DevOps practices.

This is a great opportunity for a DevOps Senior Engineer to advance into a leadership role whilst remaining hands-on, continuing to build your tech skills and love of DevOps. If suitable, future opportunities also exist to eventually move into a management position over time.

What we are looking for

• 2-3 years in a senior technical role being responsible for the delivery of DevOps-related solutions, managing multiple priorities, and providing technical guidance to customers (internal/external)
• 3-4 years of commercial experience using Jenkins, and/or Azure DevOps
• Proven experience with designing, and building new CI/CD pipelines in YAML
• Proven experience with developing templates for CI/CD pipelines in ADOS
• Hands-on experience using REST API calls using tools like PowerShell, POSTMAN
• Hands-on experience with writing and managing IAC code in terraform
• Hands-on experience in Azure, Azure Portal, or any other cloud environments
• Strong attention to detail with a professional commitment to high-quality deliverables
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including producing usable and maintainable documentation
• Good hands-on knowledge of Source Code Management (Version Control System) tools like Git and Subversion
• Proficient in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• A strong business and technical vision with a desire to deliver a first-rate customer service
• Familiarity with test automation, and related test frameworks and tools

What you'll do

• Lead and guide the design, and development of reusable DevOps components, scripts, code and document custom automation frameworks to be used globally within Markel
• Work with the rest of the Cloud/DevOps group to gather requirements, prototype, architect, plan, implement/update, build and execute testing plans, perform quality reviews, manage operations, triage issues and fix operational issues for all of our core customer-facing products and services
• Establish & Maintain DevOps practices and automation for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) throughout the product development lifecycle while building support for continuous testing and configuration management to enable zero-downtime deployment
• Lead the technical evaluation and selection process for improving performance, monitoring, conducting gap analysis, predicting trends for system performance, capacity, efficiencies, and reliability to recommend enhancements to better meet product level SLAs and standards
• Become an SME on the capabilities of Azure IaaS, PaaS services, and use of serverless technologies, including AKS, helping the Cloud/DevOps group provide pragmatic support, solutions, and guidance to customers
• Automate tasks to eliminate the need for manual infrastructure interaction by the engineering staff, whether it is code release or runtime stability and recoverability of the application in the cloud, including self-healing and SRE
• Mentor junior technical members of the group helping to establish and introduce best practices whilst also helping evolve our core DevOps services to support the needs of the organization

Choose Markel:

Innovative hybrid work model * A diversity and inclusion focused employer * Exceptional base salary and bonus structure * Comprehensive benefits which include PTO, medical, dental, vision, 401K and more * Growth opportunities to advance your career* Ongoing coaching and career development * Fast paced, high performance environment *Profitable Fortune 300 company in business since 1930.

Work location is flexible if approved by the Company, except that position may not be performed in Colorado.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S., and not require sponsorship now or in the future.

"Why work for us?"

Diversity and inclusion
Markel is truly a global and diverse company. We believe that diversity makes us better business partners and that embracing people's differences can bring amazing results and fuel innovation. We have a portfolio of businesses and product lines that operate around the world.

Community involvement
Markel has a rich heritage of supporting communities across the world where our customers and employees live and work. Giving back is part of our history and our future. Our employees share in this philosophy through volunteering, mentoring and fundraising.

Commitment to open doors

Markel is committed to creating the best work environment. Our open-door policy is essential in recognizing business issues as they rise and to address the changing needs of our diverse and global workforce. Challenging management is a component of the Markel Style-some of our best ideas start from a conversation between a manager and an employee.

Entrepreneurial spirit

As the Markel Style states, we pursue excellence, strive for a better way, and share the success of others. Markel associates proactively seek new business opportunities, bringing further success to Markel.