Platform DevOps Engineer

Who are we?

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized.

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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) is seeking an experienced Platform Dev Ops Engineer to join its Cloud Platform Engineering team as part of the larger Global Digital Services team based out of our Stevens Point, WI or Boston, MA office locations. This newly created role requires advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform and ARM templates, as well as source code management using Git Hub.

Applicants should have experience in PaaS and IaaS automation, application and infrastructure deployment processes, Power Shell, Python, and other programming languages. Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, Infrastructure as Code principles, and practices for scalable, secure, and resilient systems within the Azure environment is preferred. The engineer will manage multiple projects concurrently and contribute to the development of the Dev Ops team.

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using modern IaC tooling (primarily Terraform).
• Create and manage pipelines for application code deployment. Build application code build and deploy pipelines.
• Automate the provisioning and configuration of Cloud resources.
• Build and maintain robust Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, Terraform, and other tools.
• Deploy and manage cloud Infrastructure supporting PaaS applications.
• Identify opportunities to automate complex infrastructure creation, application provisioning, and application deployments.

• Experience working with IaC languages such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, Power Shell, and Bash (primarily Terraform).
• Experience working with application deployment pipelines and release management.
• Experience with source control, Git Ops, and code promotion strategies. Knowledge of Git Hub, Git Lab, Bit Bucket, or other source control providers is a plus (preferably Git Hub).
• Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) implementations and release management.
• Experience working with Internal Development Platforms (IDP) and change control for cloud infrastructure provisioning and PaaS deployments.
• Ability to understand API’s. API authentication, authorization, swagger documentation, and API payloads (JSON).
• Understand Infrastructure as Data (IaD) and how it’s used to pass payloads to different services.
• Solid knowledge of cloud computing concepts (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Efficient working with Azure (AWS, GCP, or other cloud providers is a plus).
• Familiarity with IT Security practices. Understanding proper secret storage and retrieval, building secure IaC code, and utilizing IaC code scanning tools.
• Solid understanding of working with Windows and Linux server operating systems (Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Linux).
• Knowledge of container provisioning and containerized workloads is a plus.

• A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities for career-oriented…