Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

About the Team

The Elevate incubator team has been established to bring simplicity and efficiency to our clients, brokers and colleagues through innovative use of data and technology. Customers will experience products and a customer journey that is consistent, easier to understand and reliable.

To achieve this bold goal we are building up a dedicated incubator squad - a small start-up within the company. This new initiative has a global span, rolling out in the US and Europe first and will continue to grow in the coming years.

About the role

As DevOps engineer you'll be part of a highly motivated tech team that is responsible for building high-quality public cloud applications by applying agile architecture principles.

Your responsibilities

• Own the development of a highly automated CI/CD platform, ranging from development infrastructure tooling to reduce operational tasks to automated testing capabilities to reliable release and deployment strategies
• End-to-end engagement, from inception to production, in designing, deploying, operating and continuously improving high-availability services in the cloud
• Deliver high-quality solutions and deployment strategies, focusing on reliability, automation, maintainability and security in order to improve performance and fault-tolerance of new or existing services
• Drive and implement the infrastructure as code mantra within the team
• Focus on devising automatic metrics and logs collection, self-healing capabilities and other technical solutions to improve security and resilience of the infrastructure and avoiding incidents and problems from reoccurring
• Facilitate DevSecOps process improvement, challenging existing practices and driving ideas and solutions that promote better ways of working

Are you eager to disrupt the insurance industry with us and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognized and rewarded? Then join our internal start-up squad and find an encouraging environment in which we aspire to make CorSo's dream come true!

What we look for:

• Vast experience in public cloud services, preferably Azure, DevOps and CI/CD
• Hands-on experience in delivering highly distributed, high-complexity concurrent systems
• Understanding of the implications and the trade-offs of different solutions with regards to performance, reliability, availability and security
• Solid experience with cloud computing platforms (particularly Azure), applications containerization/orchestration (Docker, AKS), configuration management (Terraform, ARM) and implementing continuous development, delivery and deployment solutions (Azure DevOps is preferred).
• Strong problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach to incidents mitigation, triage and resolution
• Experience in software engineering in any modern language (C#) is a plus
• Proficient in English

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits, such as:

• Attractive annual bonus
• Additional days of vacations
• Company stock options
• Space for professional growth incl. e.g. leadership and language trainings
• Flexible working hours - you own the way you work - and home office
• Fully paid lunch allowance
• Sick leave compensation
• Employee pension contribution
• Medical service contribution
• and many more!