DevOps System Engineer

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Role Sector: IT

Hours Per Week: 35

Salary Range: €

Additional Benefits: Bonus potential, generous annual leave entitlement and a competitive pension.

Role Description

About Role

Want to work in a start-up environment with the resources of one of the most exciting insurers in Europe behind you?

You’ll join a Digital team that’s focused on helping us become ‘Digital First’. Here teams of like-minded technology enthusiasts collaborate in agile, multi-disciplined teams to invent our next generation of digital products.

We are looking for a number of DevOps Engineers to join Aviva Ireland's growing Digital program on a permanent basis.

Aviva Ireland is beginning a journey to embed digital technologies in all our customer interactions across all communication channels. We strongly believe that high quality software engineering and craftsmanship is vital to achieving this and we want passionate software engineering professionals to help transform Aviva into the world’s biggest Fintech organisation.

The past number of years has seen Aviva transform it’s approach to product development embracing innovation events, agile and lean software methodologies to embed a test and learn culture across the organisation. We are working hard to build the software and architecture to enable this business need and we want you to help us. You will be working in a newly created agile space specifically designed to deliver on Aviva’s digital first strategy aiming to become the easiest insurer in Ireland to do business with.

We are looking to embed system engineering capability across our teams with a view to transitioning to a Dev Ops approach in the short term.


What you’ll do

You’ll be responsible for:

• Enabling our agile teams deliver code to production
• Maintaining various dev, test and production regions
• Assisting team members in debugging technical issues
• Seeking new ways of monitoring and managing our technical environments
• Contributing to our culture of continual innovation
• Understand and adhere to application roadmaps, but challenge when appropriate.

You’ll achieve this by:

• Working with your agile team colleagues, your technical leaders and the Scrum Master and Product Owner to build quality solutions that are capable of long term testability and growth whilst delivering focused, value driven changes to a high quality standard
• Delivering (and influencing the delivery of) the best outcomes for every Aviva customer.
• Collaborate with your peers, share your experiences and being generous with you knowledge.
• Ensure that the capabilities of the products that you engineer are focused on our customers.

About You



We’re particularly interested in:

• Technical expertise in Websphere 8.5, JBOSS, TomCat, Tivoli Access Manager,
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code platforms e.g. Chef/Puppet
• Experience transiting from bare metal propriety based platforms to cloud based open source platforms
• Awareness of industry direction and trends in server provisioning
• Solid understanding of OOP. Solving problems efficiently and quickly
• Exposure to Continuous Integration, Agile methodology, Development within Frameworks
• Some experience working with following tools: Jenkins, HP UFT, Jira, Git, BDD, Cucumber, Selenium
• Hands on experience with working on high volume systems
• Experience of working in large, multi sited teams with a shared codebase, and designing & building for a consistently great customer experience
• Negotiating, influencing, prioritisation, effectively challenging and gaining commitment
• Experienced working within an agile environment.
• Experience of Network Protocols and Web Technologies (e.g html, AJAX, TCPIP, HTTP, SSL, certificates, web servers)