DevOps Engineer

About Kuvare

Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

Kuvare Family Of Companies

Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:

• United Life Insurance Company
• Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
• Lincoln Benefit Life
  
  

Institutional Insurance

• Kuvare Life Re
  
  

Bespoke Insurance Solutions

• Ignite Partners
  
  

About The Role

The Azure DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in bridging development and operations teams to streamline software delivery and infrastructure management. They focus on automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance deployment speed, reliability, and scalability. They build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate software releases, and also build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform and ARM. They also implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to ensure system health and performance. The role will contribute to standards and continuous improvement across the environment, and in addition to DevOps is also positioned to leverage and expand expertise in SRE, cloud engineering and platform engineering. At Kuvare our goal is to foster a collaborative and innovative environment where DevOps engineers can thrive and make a significant impact.

What You'll Do

• Document and deliver DevOps and cloud engineering processes in accordance with security, compliance, and architectural best practices.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps across all code repositories.
• Automate cloud deployments with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and ARM.
• Automate operational processes using scripting languages such as PowerShell and Python.
• Act as liaison and collaborate with development teams to reduce delivery cycle time, evangelize DevOps patterns, best practices and culture.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers and development teams to optimize performance of Azure applications and infrastructure, monitoring and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical demonstrations.
• Provide technical progress reports, program management plans, and agile artifacts.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure an excellent Developer experience, interoperability across teams, and platform alignment with project goals.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing across the team.
• Stay updated on emerging DevOps and Cloud technologies through continuous learning.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of DevOps or similar experience on either Azure Cloud or Amazon Web Services (AWS) , with a preference for Azure. Networking, security policies, RBAC, Identity Access Management (IAM), Azure Application Services, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory and hybrid cloud integrations.
• 5 years experience in software release management, source control management, and development/scripting. Python, PowerShell, YAML, Bicep, ARM, Azure CLI.
• 5 years in Software Development with experience in .Net and SQL programming or similar experience as a full stack developer.
• Experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines and pipeline templates.
• Experience with IaC using languages such as Bicep or Terraform.
• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) training or experience a plus.
• Container and Kubernetes experience a plus.