Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer


Job Ref:
2437

Job Title:
Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer

Location:
Dundrum - Dublin 16

Closing date:
Close date not set

Vacancy Description

Join RSA and make a difference every day. 

Whether you are just beginning your career or looking to take the next progressive step in your journey, RSA Insurance is an organization where you can be yourself, learn and develop and a place where your ideas and contributions matter.  

With offices in Belfast, Galway, and Dublin, we have embraced hybrid work empowering our people to work flexibly and to suit their individual needs, which enables them to deliver great service to the customers we look after every day. Our Dublin office is also home to our sister-company 123.ie.        

At RSA and 123.ie we empower our customers to make a difference in their lives. And the same goes for our employees. We are proud to have 32 different nationalities represented in our workforce. Our diverse customer base benefits from the diverse perspectives of our teams that serve them, solving complex problems with creative ideas. 

 As proud member of the Intact family, we’re part of something bigger with a presence in North America, the UK, and Europe. Our business has grown organically and through acquisitions to over $21 billion of total annual premiums. 

We want you to thrive and grow with us – and we’ll give you all the tools, flexibility and learning opportunities you need to do it.

 And, if you bring your best, then we promise to give you, our best. 

 

Culture and Community 

 RSA is a purpose-driven business – our purpose is to ‘help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times, and be resilient in bad times’.  

 We do that by living our values – Integrity, Respect, Customer-driven, Excellence, and Generosity – in everything that we do. 

 We provide an open and honest workplace – where everybody contributes, and every view is listened-to and respected.  

 Generosity is in our DNA and is the value that guides and enables our people to help others, protect the environment and make our communities more resilient. It drives our efforts to care for people and to give our time, financial resources and talent. We’re also committed to helping society adapt to a changing climate taking reasonable care to ensure that our business activities are conducted in an environmentally sustainable manner.  

 

Our stats don’t lie… in our annual engagement survey  

87% of our people celebrate the diversity in their teams and the wider company  

90% of our people feel safe to speak up and share if they’ve made a mistake  

91% of our people feel valued and respected by leadership  

89% of our people are benefiting and thriving through our hybrid working model 

 

 

Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer

The Cloud Platform team design, implement, support, and improve the cloud technology stack to ensure systems security, reliability & availability for 123.ie & RSA Ireland.

We design, deploy & maintain advanced log analysis & monitoring systems; We lead automated, agile based release management to our 24x7 online application stack; We define, maintain, and develop our ci/cd pipelines & deployment automation tools for our release processes. We advise and implement security configuration items and tooling; We automate!

We are looking for a highly competent, reliable, self-starting IT generalist – with experience in a Windows Server administration or SRE role with web application support. You must have strong infrastructure knowledge with great analysis & problem-solving skills - perhaps you’ve also done some scripting or automation work in a previous role or in a part time capacity?

Come talk to us!

 

Key Responsibilities​:

  • ​Resolve complex technical issues in infrastructure, applications, platforms & Backoffice systems.
  • Manage and monitor Azure cloud resources, performance, security, and costs using various tools and frameworks.
  • Provide third line of support for issues from the front-line incident managers.
  • Deploy software releases to our Azure based systems using a squad methodology.
  • Be able to clearly think through, communicate & participate in the wider ITS sessions.
  • Be part of an on-call rota as needed.

 

Attribute and Qualifications​

  • 3-5 years’ experience supporting Azure cloud infrastructure.
  • 3+ years’ experience of supporting web application technologies.
  • Excellent knowledge of Azure technologies and the Azure stack
  • This role requires knowledge of all of the following: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSL, IIS, Windows Server OS
  • Proficiency in PowerShell & Bash
  • Strong IT admin skills, networking and troubleshooting skills.
  • Excellent verbal & written communications skills
  • A can-do attitude & works with minimal oversight with high standards.
  • The ability to prioritise & work in a fast paced, high volume, agile environment. 
  • A passion for learning new technologies and improving your skills

 

Better if you have:

  • Knowledge of Terraform or other declarative languages
  • Experience of operating FinOps models
  • Experience in automating and streamlining a software development lifecycle (SDLC), configuration management etc
  • An ability to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm & innovation
  • Experience working in a regulated financial entity
  • Experience in working with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban

 

RSA Insurance Ireland DAC and its affiliate companies consider applicants on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.

 


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