What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Platform DevOps Engineer position at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance?
Who are we?
A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.
We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized. Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty and specialty lines insurance company in the world?
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Job Opportunity :
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Platform DevOps Engineer to join their Stevens Point based Infrastructure team. The Infrastructure Platform DevOps Engineer will be responsible for daily administration of on and off-premises datacenter environments, automation, and deployment pipelines. This position will require a strong background in PaaS and IaaS automation, Application and Infrastructure deployment pipelines, code source management tools, Terraform and ARM templates, PowerShell, Python and other programming languages. May manage several projects simultaneously. The individual in this role will also be responsible for helping build out our growing DevOps Team. While the individual in this role will not be managing direct reports at this time, they will be expected to act as a team lead, coordinating and managing work, providing technical expertise, mentoring junior staff members, and being the point of contact for escalations.
Duties & Responsibilities :
- Participate fully in the vision, build, configuration, and documentation of Platform Engineering. Lend guidance to defining DevOps code standards for development groups to follow.
- Execute technical direction ensuring stability, reliability, and integration.
- Design, configure, deploy, maintain cloud platform services and software. Work collaboratively with development architects and Infrastructure alike.
- Quickly identify problems or bottlenecks in existing workflows and seek solutions, efficiencies, and improvements to ensure repeatable successes.
- Create and maintain architecture and support documentation for the Infrastructure and Application teams. Work seamlessly with teammates in Infrastructure, Security, Development groups, Business process leads, Systems stakeholders, and Support to ensure a cohesive environment. Be able to communicate on all levels effectively, both written and verbally.
- Provide Tier 3 escalation support for DevOps Application and Infrastructure Production Support teams. Equip teammates with the knowledge to provide Tiers 1 & 2 support.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience :
BHSI Offers :
NOTE : Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Team Member may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization
