Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

Westfield is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help modernize and secure our software delivery platforms. In this hands-on role, you'll work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and security.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of our DevOps toolchain, focusing on automation, scalability, and security integration.
• Work directly with development teams to promote DevOps principles, optimizing workflows, enabling shift-left practices, and reducing friction in day-to-day engineering.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code (e.g., Azure DevOps, Kubernetes YAML, and Terraform).
• Help manage and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Integrate quality and security checks into the development lifecycle using tools like SonarQube, Snyk, etc.
• Explore, evaluate, and implement advancements to our DevOps practice (e.g., New cloud deployment patterns, internal developer platform, GenAI development practices and safeguards).
• Provide thought leadership in advancing the organization’s DevOps strategy, alignment with business goals and technology trends.
• Advance branching and code merge strategies that enable frequent, streamlined development and deployment platforms and processes, ensuring efficient collaboration between development, infrastructure and other stakeholders.
• Ensure synergies between software development and IT operations through automation, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and infrastructure management standards and best practices.

Job Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or application engineering role, with hands-on implementation of modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and coaching developers on DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using pipeline-as-code (e.g., Azure DevOps).
• Solid understanding of good version control best practices (e.g., Git workflows, branching strategies).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps, OpenShift, and JIRA in a production environment.
• Exposure to DevSecOps tooling such as SonarQube, Snyk, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and principles (e.g., Terraform, Helm).

About Us

Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Westfield is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.