Cloud Developer - Java

Responsibilities:

• Define/refine the DevOps process, including roles and responsibilities, configuration management, environment management, and quality gates for product/project environments.
• Work with architect(s) and the development team to enhance the DevOps toolchain and build tools to facilitate operations and to ensure stability of the business solution.
• Have up-to-date knowledge on enterprise guidelines and standards and contribute towards architectural decision-making on the DevOps topics.
• Defining and implementing the best practices for system configuration, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Explore and analyze new elements/features/limitations of Allianz Group standard solutions and developments in global DevOps.
• Actualize the DevOps processes for environment management, including infrastructure, platform, and application lifecycle.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and participate actively in knowledge-sharing activities like communities of practice, and/or other knowledge exchanges
• Evaluate the impact of new regulatory topics like DORA and ensure compliance.
• Identify and implement changes that can enhance the security posture.
• Own the release management process and take part in release planning with other leads.
• Managing existing infrastructure, platform, and application.
• Own and perform regulatory compliance and security-related activities.
• Perform regular exercises like DR, Pentest, release management, etc.
• Collaboration and communication with other leads and DevOps practice.
• Enhancing the existing DevOps toolchain and building operational tools.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing.

Requirements:

• Open-minded, good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fast learner and curious.
• Able to lead the DevOps practice within the team.
• Supported a production system/services based on the above technology(s).
• Good experience with scripting/automation.
• Has a good understanding of the traditional enterprise technology stack and enterprise networking concepts.
• Has basic understanding of the Agile software development framework (e. g., Scrum) and tools (e. g., JIRA).
• Have worked with security enhancements within the overall infra and operations scope.
• Previous experience with owning and handling the release management process.

Preferred/Additional Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Working with change management of a production-grade application.
• Have a basic understanding of regulations like DORA.
• Programming knowledge and experience in any general-purpose programming language.
• Has experience in any relational database operations.
• Has a good understanding of the traditional enterprise technology stack and enterprise networking concepts.
• Have experience/sound.

Relevant experience and hands-on experience in the below:

• Public cloud stack: Azure.
• Container technology: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Automation: Ansible, Terraform.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps.
• Observability tool, e. g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or ELK stack.