Senior DevOps/Build & Deploy Engineer

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

At QBE, our purpose is to give people the confidence to achieve their ambitions inside and outside of work. From development opportunities, to flexible work options and highly competitive reward and benefits packages, we understand the importance of living our values when it comes to our people. Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our company's cultural elements - because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference.

This opportunity is accountable for building, administer support and maintain solutions as directed and according to QBE and divisional policy in support of CI/CD tooling. This includes creation of CI/CD pipelines and supporting the technology used by the pipelines, and supporting the development teams who use those tools/pipelines. Identify service improvements for the overall CI/CD platform tools we support. Work with a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers to ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required. Working with the vendor to facilitate upgrades of our platforms this includes promoting software through controlled environments, testing and production, identifying and troubleshooting issues and escalating to senior leadership as required to foster timely delivery of solutions for business needs.

• Information Security - Maintains the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. Designs, implements and operates controls and management strategies to allow this.
• System Design - Creates the specification and design of systems to meet defined business needs. Has the ability to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs. Able to visualise the ideal user service, come up with design ideas and possible design approaches. Explores different approaches to solving problems.
• IT Infrastructure - Supports, designs and implements infrastructure technologies and solutions such as: compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, database, middleware, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions, virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Ownership & Initiative - Takes ownership of problems and proactively resolves technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet business requirements. Takes full accountability for actions taken and decisions made.
• Problem Solving - Understands and identifies problems, analyzing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. Is able to classify and priorities problems, document their causes and implement remedies.
• Service Focus - Maintains focus on the whole life of service delivery - designs, develops, delivers and operates. Ensures that a set of IT products, suppliers and vendors come together to deliver an IT service.
• Technical understanding - Has the specific knowledge which underpins an individual's ability to deliver the responsibilities and tasks of their role. This relates to the application of the required breadth and depth of technical knowledge.
• Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution - Has lateral thinking capability to dissect a problem into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes, allowing problem resolution. Able to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions, virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• DevOps/Automaton - Has a diverse set of technical expertise; including DevOps tooling, troubleshooting and debug skills, cloud computing, coding/scripting and infrastructure engineering to provide outstanding customer experiences. Beyond technical qualification, resource will also have a healthy combination of cross-group collaboration skills, communication and relationship building skills.

Required Education • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Experience • 6 years relevant experience

Preferred Competencies/Skills • Information Security - Working - Understands information security and the types of security controls that can be used to mitigate security threats within solutions and services.• System Design - Practitioner - Designs systems characterized by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures they are applied effectively. Reviews the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.• IT Infrastructure - Practitioner - Designs, implements, administers and supports infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as: compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructures, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions, virtual and cloud including PaaS, SaaS.• Ownership & Initiative - Working - Owns an issue until a new owner has been found or the problem has been mitigated and / or resolved.• Problem Solving - Working - Initiates and monitors actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems, including consulting specialists where required. Determines the appropriate remedy and assists with implementation of these as well as preventative measures.• Service Focus - Working - Takes inputs and establishes coherent frameworks that work.• Technical Understanding - Practitioner - Has deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape.• Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution - Practitioner - Able to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. Able to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities.• DevOps/Automaton - Practitioner - Has the technical understanding of DevOps tools like source code management, develop infrastructure based code/scripts, integrate with third party tools for extended automation.

Preferred Licenses/Certifications • DevOps certification or equivalent

Preferred Knowledge
• Working knowledge of software development technologies.• Advanced working knowledge on end to end DevOps practices.• Working knowledge of building end to end automated DevOps pipelines.• Advanced working knowledge of release management principles and best practices• Advanced working knowledge of building scripts for software builds and deployments• Advanced working knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment tools.• Advanced working knowledge of common operating systems, software applications, and programming languages• Advanced working knowledge of source code version control tools utilized in area of responsibility

QBE Cultural DNA
Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our DNA (which interlinks seven cultural elements) - because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference. We expect all employees to role model and inspire the right behaviors that link to our cultural elements:
• We are customer-centered• We are technical experts• We are diverse• We are fast-paced• We are courageous• We are accountable• We are a team

All employees are expected to adhere to QBE's Code of Ethics and Conduct and apply sound risk management practices

US Only - Travel Frequency
• Infrequent (approximately 1-4 trips annually)

US Only - Physical Demands
• General office jobs: Work is generally performed in an office environment in which there is not substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions. Must have the ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time. Must be able to operate basic office equipment including telephone, headset and computer. Incumbent must be able to lift basic office equipment up to 20 lbs.

US Only - Disclaimer
• To successfully perform this job, the individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.

Job Type
• Individual Contributor

Australia/New Zealand Only - Advice/Non-Advice >
• Non-Advice: This role is not authorized to provide financial product advice to retail customers in respect of General Insurance products. Financial product advice, means a statement or recommendation made to a retail customer with the intention of influencing their decision in considering a general insurance product.

Global Disclaimer
• The duties listed in this job description do not limit the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the duties normally to be performed in the position or those occasionally assigned outside an employee's normal duties. Our Group Code of Ethics and Conduct addresses the responsibilities we all have at QBE to our company, to each other and to our customers, suppliers, communities and governments. It provides clear guidance to help us to make good judgement calls.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.