As a DevOps Engineer you are taking part in the next phase of our Agile Transformation, to provide the best services towards our customers and to improve our system landscape. As a DevOps, you work closely with several stakeholders, including the platform architects, internal service providers, agile DevOps teams, product owners and developer teams. Together with them, you will shape the tooling and processes for provisioning our environments, infrastructure and platforms. In addition, you will guide the harmonization and improvement of existing CI/CD assets.

Responsibilities/Tasks

• End-to-end design of state-of-the-art Platform Engineer in close alignment with platform architecture, internal service providers, DevOps engineers of full Allianz Technology ecosystem.
• Continuously improve the internal developer experience by evolving our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) based on Backstage.io, applying Platform Engineering principles to enable self-service capabilities, increase standardization and accelerate software delivery.
• Establishes and introduces SDLC and CI/CD best practices based on the global company IT Strategy.
• Implement automation of tedious and boring, repetitive tasks (testing, packaging, dependency and configuration management, deployment).
• Implement and enhance our level of automation of our software delivery life cycle (CI/CD pipelines)
• Bring applications into the cloud
• Work closely with our DevOps engineers on how to best use and innovate our software delivery, test and production platforms

General competence description

Professional with expertise in

1. CI/CD state-of-the-art best practices, experience with setting up and maintaining build and deployment pipelines

2. CD technologies, especially geared towards Kubernetes and public cloud, like ArgoCD,  Crossplane

3. Container (orchestration) technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker

4. Cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure

5. Infrastructure as Code technologies, especially Terraform and Helm

6. Software development and scripting languages, to provide automation and self-service tooling

7. Various automation frameworks, regarding build, test, integration and deployment, including Jenkins automation server

8. Git, especially GitHub

Your benefits:

•    We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
•    We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
•    From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
•    Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 12,000 employees located in 51 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.

We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

D&I statement

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity and cultural background, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.

Join us. Let´s care for tomorrow.

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