- Company Name
- Selective Insurance
- Job Title
- Lead DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)
- Job Description
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Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer
Role Summary:
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud‑based DevOps practices, focusing on Azure services, infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration. Provide strategic guidance, technical leadership, and mentorship across development teams to accelerate value delivery and maintain alignment with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
Expactations:
- 5+ years in application development and 3+ years of DevOps pipeline design.
- Demonstrated expertise in Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps.
- Proven ability to lead technical projects, present complex solutions, and influence stakeholders.
- Strong problem‑solving skills with a proactive, self‑starter mindset.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and lead cloud architecture, networking, and containerization solutions using IaC (ARM, Terraform, Ansible).
- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines (YAML, Azure DevOps) with a focus on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
- Create and refine process flows, documentation, and collateral to communicate technical details and outcomes.
- Evaluate DevOps tools and solutions, leading custom integrations where needed.
- Mentor teams, advocate DevOps principles, and drive culture change toward automation and continuous delivery.
- Measure and report on business value derived from DevOps initiatives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline and deployment issues.
- Identify modernization opportunities across process and technology dimensions.
Required Skills:
- Azure services: Compute, Storage, Networking, Security.
- Azure DevOps: pipeline creation, release management, IaC provisioning.
- IaC tools: ARM templates, Terraform, Ansible.
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Bicep.
- Source control: Git – branching, release management.
- DevOps concepts: shift‑left, continuous delivery, process improvement.
- Cloud networking and security best practices.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring abilities.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred).
- Professional certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or equivalent are desirable.
Short hills, United states
On site
Senior
14-12-2025