DevOps Cloud Engineer

Location
Princeton , United States

Your job

Munich Re America Services (MRAS) is a shared service organization that delivers services to all Munich Re US P&C Companies and other group entities.

The position will assist in building DevOps solutions and CI/CD environments based on Munich Re’s business requirements. Specifically, across application, network, deployment & scaling.

This role is essential to successful partnerships across the existing PIRI and global IT organizations to collaboratively design solutions that are resilient and consistent with the patterns and platforms of Enterprise Architecture.

Responsible for collaborating with other cloud architects and implementation managers to support the development portfolio.

• Work with highly experienced Munich Re cloud architects and implementation managers – who have a wealth of experience both at Munich Re and from their wider technology roles.
• Have a passion for enabling our Development, Test and Operations teams via tooling and automation
• Embrace continuous improvement
• Build DevOps solutions across application, network, deployment & scaling to meet complex project requirements
• Be comfortable working in a high paced, high energy agile working environment
• Take ownership to implement and enforce all relevant security, documentation and config processes in everything you do
• Work as part of a highly experienced and diverse engineering team – who bridge the US, UK, Europe & India
• Be pivotal in building out Munich Re PIRI business units cloud native platform and be directly involved in strategic design decisions

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or equivalent practitioner experience with excellent infrastructure architecture skills
• Azure certification, ideally from one or more of the DevOps, Security and Architecture learning paths
• Deep technical knowledge and proven hands-on implementation experience (4+ years) on Azure cloud platform
• Be well versed and comfortable building pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Very good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code development using ARM, Terraform or PowerShell
• Hands on experience in cloud networking, including principle understanding of full IP stack, subnetting & routing. CISCO CCNA or higher certification would be considered a differentiator
• Working knowledge of application development and concepts such as session management, load balancing, error reporting and alerting, thread management Experience working as a developer would be considered a differentiator
• Azure Active Directory & Identity Management deployment and configuration experience.
• Experience with wider Microsoft technologies such as window server and SQL server
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Self-motivated with the ability to work as part of a team and high attention to detail when producing design artefacts
• Exposure and experience of the following Azure technologies (the more the better) – App Services, Functions, Redis Cache, Network Service Groups, Azure Firewall, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Application Gateway, Load balancers

At Munich Re US, we see Diversity and Inclusion as a solution to the challenges and opportunities all around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the customers we serve and the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all of our colleagues feel respected, valued and empowered to achieve their very best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers the most innovative products and services.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

About us

Munich Re America Services, Inc. is a services provider to affiliated group companies primarily related to general services, procurement and IT services.