Lead DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2023 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2023.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Overview:

Selective is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to innovate and improve our ability to accelerate value delivery to our customers. As a key contributor to driving efficient development practices the successful candidate will help in defining and implementing best practices and patterns. They will work to identify opportunities to design, implement, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery patterns. As a hands-on lead engineer, they will provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's strategy, architecture, and methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management. They will provide highly technical consulting and leadership for design, best practices, and development technologies and will advise organizational leaders on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and leads the implementation of CI/CD and other automation solutions and identifies design patterns with emphasis on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Creates and improves process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other collateral to convey technical details and association with requested outcomes.
• Measures and demonstrates business value of DevOps improvements
• Understands, evangelizes, and educates others on current and emerging DevOps trends.
• Identifies customer, business and technology needs through relationship building with key stakeholders.
• Acts as a customer advocate to ensure overall system usability and adoption
• Works with developers and quality engineers to develop mature automated testing strategies
• Leads the technical evaluation of DevOps solutions, understands existing industry DevOps solutions, and designs any required custom system integrations.
• Identifies gaps and proposes modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC
• Acts to support DevOps practices for agile teams using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Presents innovative complex solutions/ideas across all levels of participants and works in a team environment as both a leader and an individual contributor.
• Acts as a trusted advisor who inspires confidence through strong communication.
• Mentors staff in DevOps architectures and standards. Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teams.
• Advises IT leadership on current practices and pain points to create new strategic themes and backlog items.
• Breaks down DevOps related feature requests into user stories for use in team- and program-based agile planning
• Debugs/troubleshoots issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in applications development
• 3+ years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube and YAML.
• 2+ years of experience acting as a technical lead
• Strategic leader with experience successfully driving CI/CD implementations and DevOps process improvements in both green- and brown-field situations.
• Understanding and experience implementing key DevOps concepts, e.g. shift left, process improvement, continuous delivery, etc.
• Advanced experience in GIT repositories to support management and branching of code, and implementing pipelines
• Understanding of best practices to support company governance and audit requirements in support of full SDLC
• Understanding of Git repositories, modern/current programming languages branching strategies and release management.
• Self-starter who is capable of working independently and making decisions when necessary/as applicable.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and have the ability to mentor others
• Experience leading and influencing other technical leaders and collaborating with organizational leaders to build out multi-year technical visions
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels
• Experience with having worked in an Agile environment, preferably SAFe.

Salary range: $125,000 - $167,600. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.

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