Senior DevOps Engineer
Pacific Life Re24 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the Azure DevOps organization, projects, teams, security groups, service connections, variable groups, secure files, build agents, Azure Boards, and Azure Artifacts.
- Define and enforce Git repository structures, branching strategies, branch policies, pull request workflows, versioning, tagging, rollback, and repository security standards.
- Design, build, and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake SQL, dbt models, Streamlit applications, stored procedures, and supporting scripts.
- Own database change management and state-based deployment across development, SIT, UAT, and production environments.
- Implement automated testing, deployment gates, approvals, validation, recovery, and reproducible environment configuration using infrastructure-as-code.
- Manage the end-to-end release calendar, change records, release readiness, stakeholder coordination, approval forums, and auditable release trails.
- Administer RBAC, secrets management, data masking, PII controls, certificates, artifact repositories, and security-scanning remediation across Snowflake and Azure DevOps.
- Drive continuous improvement in deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore while coordinating with data engineering, testing, reporting, architecture, and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps Repos, YAML Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, self-hosted agents, and service connections.
- Expert knowledge of Git branching strategies, branch policies, pull requests, tagging, versioning, merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, and rollback procedures.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating automated production deployment pipelines in controlled and audited environments.
- Experience with release management, change control, release governance, stakeholder coordination, database change management, and state-based deployment approaches.
- Strong working knowledge of Snowflake administration, RBAC, masking policies, and cost and performance optimization.
- Experience with dbt and SQL in a modern cloud data warehouse environment.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, Bash, Python, and monitoring or alerting tooling.
- Knowledge of networking, certificates, and security-scanning tools is advantageous.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of reinsurance or insurance industry concepts is a bonus.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days.
- Adoption and fertility leave and enhanced parental leave.
- Private healthcare coverage for employees and dependents, group life insurance of 9x basic annual salary, income protection up to 75% of basic annual salary, and optical benefits.
- Combined employee and employer retirement contributions of 15%.
- Subsidized gym membership, Employee Assistance Program access, Cycle to Work, and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
- Time off for volunteering and charitable donation matching.
- Team-building days, social activities, wellbeing initiatives, community volunteering opportunities, and reasonable recruitment adjustments for applicants with disabilities.
- Benefits apply to permanent and fixed-term employees.
About Pacific Life Re
Pacific Life Re provides life and health reinsurance to insurers, covering protection, critical illness, income protection, longevity risk transfer, and retrocession. It earns through risk premiums and related services such as underwriting support, pricing, and analytics. The company operates globally from a headquarters in Bermuda with offices across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia, and is backed by parent Pacific Life, a U.S. insurer with a 150-year heritage.