DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help accelerate our engineering delivery. In this role, you'll work closely with engineering teams to streamline and automate the deployment, integration, and monitoring of software applications.

The day-to-day responsibilities of this role include:

• Deploying applications in an automated fashion by creating and managing CI/CD pipelines 
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure as code
• Designing highly available and cost-effective architectures
• Monitoring, alerting, and supporting production environments to keep systems stable and running
• Providing off-hour support when needed to troubleshoot problems with mission-critical applications and take actions resulting from root cause analysis 
• Engaging with multiple business units to prototype new ideas and new technologies and help create solutions to drive the next wave of innovation.
• Recommending solutions that align with the business needs and requirements 
• Providing configuration recommendations and assistance 
• Assisting in the development of detailed project specifications and implementation plans
• Contributing work to central cloud architecture team to benefit Verisk as a whole 

• Experience with building large-scale enterprise architecture solutions, including security concerns, high availability methods, multiple platforms, hardware considerations, network design, monitoring solutions, virtualization, performance, capacity planning, and information management practices
• Strong understanding of container orchestration via Kubernetes 
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools and methodologies preferably via Terraform
• Experience with monitoring technologies including Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with CI/CD and configuration management tools and technologies, including Gitlab, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, etc. 
• Knowledge of development methodologies and best practices
• Experience with AWS and cloud architecture - Amazon Certified SysOps Administrator or Solutions Architect, Associate or higher is a plus 
• Creative and innovative approach to problem solving and passion for continuous improvement
• Experience with agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) including familiarity with JIRA

We offer:

• remote work or possibility to work from our office in Cologne.

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