DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our UK Team and champion best practices in the cloud. In this role, your expertise will be instrumental in fostering our DevOps culture-driving collaboration between development and operations teams, improving delivery cadence, and enhancing the performance and reliability of our systems.

he 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
• 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

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in cloud architecture, preferably with AWS
• Hands-on expertise with containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in Python development and familiarity with modern development methodologies
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with experience in CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform
• Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with tools such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Chef, or Jenkins
• Creative, solutions-driven approach with a passion for continuous improvement
• Experience in agile processes (Kanban/Scrum) and tools like JIRA
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written

Why Join Verisk?

• Work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
• Contribute to high-impact projects with global reach
• Grow your career in a collaborative, innovative environment
• Be part of a culture that values diversity, continuous learning, and work-life balance