Sr. DevOps Engineer; Hybrid

About Us

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness. Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work® in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Selective will not sponsor or assume the sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Note:

(For NJ candidates) This role will be located at our future headquarters in Short Hills, N. Until the new headquarters is operational, the successful candidate will be offered the ability to work in our Branchville, N.J. location during this interim period.

Selective is seeking a distinguished Senior Dev Ops Engineer with Cloud technologies experience to innovate and improve our ability to accelerate value delivery to our customers. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in innovating and enhancing our ability to expedite value delivery to our customers. As a key contributor to driving efficient development practices, the candidate will be instrumental in defining and implementing best practices and patterns.

They will identify opportunities to design, implement, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery patterns. As a hands‑on senior engineer, they will provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's strategy, architecture, and methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management. They will provide highly technical consulting and leadership for design, best practices, and development technologies and will advise organizational leaders on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.

• Design and oversee the implementation of cloud-based architecture, networking, and containerization, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code for automation and patterns.
• Lead the creation and deployment of CI/CD and other automation solutions, focusing on design patterns that emphasize reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Develop and enhance process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other materials to convey technical details and their alignment with desired outcomes.
• Conduct technical evaluations of Dev Ops solutions, understand existing industry options, and design necessary custom system integrations.
• Serve as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for Dev Ops architecture within development teams.
• Measure and demonstrate the benefits and business value of Dev Ops improvements.
• Present innovative and complex solutions/ideas to participants at all levels, working both as a leader and an individual contributor.
• Identify customer, business, and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders.
• Identify gaps and propose modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.

• Over 5 years of experience in applications development.
• More than 5 years of experience designing Dev Ops pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure Dev Ops, Sonar Qube, and YAML.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure App Service, Logic Apps, VMSS and…