Platform Engineer

Job description

Key responsibilities

 

As a Data Platform Engineer within the Advanced Analytics team in the Chief Data Office Area at Allianz Partners, you will play a critical role in developing and enhancing our cloud infrastructure. 

 

This position is pivotal in enabling our data scientists and machine learning engineers by providing a robust, scalable, and efficient cloud platform. Your responsibilities will include the management of cloud environments, automation of deployment processes, and ensuring high availability of services. You will work in a cross-functional team environment and demonstrate a strong desire to innovate and take ownership of projects.

 

Through this role, you will have the main following responsabilities:
 

•     Cloud Management : Utilize Terraform to manage the cloud environment, including the setup and control of access to various cloud services in a secure and scalable manner.
•    Platform Empowerment: Support and empower data engineers and scientists by optimizing their use of cloud resources, ensuring they can focus on delivering high-value analytics solutions.
•     Infrastructure Development: Actively extend and maintain the cloud infrastructure adopting a cloud-first approach to support evolving business needs.
•     Containerization and Security : Comprehensive knowledge in containerization, network protocols, encryption, and overall security practices.
•    CI/CD Pipelines: Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring seamless code integration and deployment.
•    Microservices Management: Build and manage a highly available cloud platform using Kubernetes, designed for running microservices at scale.
•    Monitoring and Observability: Integrate and maintain sophisticated monitoring and observability tools into the platform to uphold best practices in incident notification and response.
•    Innovation and Ownership: Drive innovation within the team by proposing and implementing new technologies and processes and taking ownership of the platform's reliability and performance.

What you bring

 

•     Prior Experience: Previous experience of at least 2 years as a software engineer or cloud engineer is highly desirable.
•     Technical Expertise: Proven expertise in DevOps toolchains, including Docker, Terraform, DevOps pipeline tools, Git, and Helm Charts; proficiency in Python, shell scripts, and command-line operations within Linux environments; experience with development, automation, and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Ansible, Bash, and GitHub Actions.
•     Soft Skills : Excellent communication skills in English, agility in working environments, and a collaborative spirit in agile and cross-functional teams.
•    Learning and Development: A commitment to continuous personal and professional development, responsive to feedback, and adept at providing constructive feedback.

•    Education : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

•    Database Management : Experience in database management including SQL, NoSQL databases, and cloud-based database services - nice to have. 
•    Front-End Development : Familiarity with front-end development technologies and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript, React) - nice to have. 

What we offer   

 

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs.

All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance

53821 | Data & Analytics | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.