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Job Summary
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As a DevOps 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.
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Major Responsibilities
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- 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
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Educational & Professional Qualifications
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Experience
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Technical Skills (Mandatory)
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Professional with expertise in
- CI/CD state-of-the-art best practices, experience with setting up and maintaining build and deployment pipelines
- CD technologies, especially geared towards Kubernetes and public cloud, like ArgoCD, Crossplane
- Container (orchestration) technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker
- Cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure
- Infrastructure as Code technologies, especially Terraform and Helm
- Software development and scripting languages, to provide automation and self-service tooling
- Various automation frameworks, regarding build, test, integration and deployment, including Jenkins automation server
- Git, especially GitHub
- Experience implementing and operating an Internal Developer Platform based on Backstage.io
- Proven experience designing and building platform engineering solutions enabling self service and standardization
- Knowledge and experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines, e.g. using Github Actions, Maven, Node, Nexus, Git and Backstage as IDP
- Knowledge and experience with Helm, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Crossplane
- Knowledge and experience in container (orchestration) technologies, like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
- Good understanding of build & run-time concepts and maintenance of Java applications on Tomcat, JBoss, or Spring Boot and Angular
- Familiarity with scripting languages, e.g. Unix shell, Python, Windows PowerShell, Groovy
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Functional/Domain Knowledge (If required)
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- 3+ years of experience in practicing the relevant skills. Ability to take end-to-end responsibility of our CI/CD architecture and to work closely with platform architects, developers, build and release managers.
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Other skills (Preferable technical skills /Soft skills)
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- Knowledge and experience in logging and monitoring technologies like Dynatrace
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Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.
