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At ValueMomentum’s Engineering Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas: Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise.

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Role:

As the Director of Cloud DevOps, you will lead the design, implementation, and management of infrastructure and operations for our partners. Your role is crucial in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of their systems. You will drive the adoption of DevSecOps practices and Site Reliability Engineering principles, fostering a culture of automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement. Your expertise will be critical in automating operations, enhancing system resilience, improving deployment processes, and providing technical leadership to the DevOps team. You will be responsible for managing multiple executive stakeholders within business, change, and IT. This includes leading the activities of architects or technical leaders through direct or indirect reporting relationships. Your leadership and communication skills, particularly in managing and influencing multiple executive stakeholders, will be crucial in this role.

Responsibilities Include:

Leadership:

Define and refine the modern age DevOps best practices for our clients
Lead and mentor a team of DevOps and SRE professionals, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
Set technical standards and best practices, ensuring high reliability and efficient operations.
Build and empower the team to create standardized methodologies within the DevOps discipline along with the flexibility to scale for our clients.
Drive innovation and explore new technologies.

Infrastructure and Operations Management:

Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
Monitor system performance, identify, and resolve issues, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery.

DevOps Practices:

Drive the adoption of DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable software deployments.
Implement and manage containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Integrate the full DevOps processes from Plan, Code, Build, Test, Release, Deploy, Operate, and Monitor.

Site Reliability Engineering:

Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
Develop and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
Conduct performance tuning, capacity planning, and system optimization to meet service level objectives (SLOs).

Security and Compliance:

Ensure the security and compliance of our infrastructure and operations, implementing best practices for data protection and access control.
Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests.
Develop and enforce security policies, procedures, and incident response plans.

Stakeholder Engagement:

Collaborate with architecture, development, QA, and product teams to understand their needs and provide technical solutions that meet business objectives.
Present technical concepts and project status updates to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner.
Build strong relationships with clients, ensuring their technical requirements are met and their expectations are exceeded.

Skill Development:

Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in DevOps and SRE.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven experience (10+ years) in DevOps, SRE, or a related field, with a track record of leading technical teams.
Professional IT consulting services experience required
Strong proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker), and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Excellent problem-solving, critical-thinking, and analytical skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience with agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

About ValueMomentum

As the largest standalone IT services company focused on insurance, we are uniquely positioned to be the partner of choice for insurance companies looking to transform their business and better serve their customers. Our deep understanding of the insurance industry, combined with our expertise in technology solutions, allows us to offer customized and effective strategies that help our clients stay ahead of the competition. At our company, we take pride in our ability to empower insurers and build a safer, more secure future for everyone.

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