Lead DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a Lead Dev Ops Engineer to play a key role in driving the delivery, performance, and reliability of our Guidewire insurance platforms. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of development, operations, and security—helping accelerate software delivery while ensuring stable, scalable infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Lead Dev Ops Engineer to play a key role in driving the delivery, performance, and reliability of our Guidewire insurance platforms. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of development, operations, and security—helping accelerate software delivery while ensuring stable, scalable infrastructure. As a technical leader, you’ll define the Dev Ops vision by shaping architecture, establishing roadmaps, and continuously improving our CI/CD pipelines, automation strategy, and environment governance.

You’ll partner closely with engineering and business teams to identify bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and implement solutions that enhance speed and quality across the software lifecycle. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact—mentoring team members, setting engineering standards, and leading initiatives that modernize how we build, deploy, and maintain applications at scale.

• The Lead Dev Ops engineer and their teams streamline the software development lifecycle to improve developer productivity, delivery speed, and code quality. Key responsibilities include automating delivery processes and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
• Own the lifecycle management of Jenkins including backups, upgrades, plugin management, and pipeline stability.
• Automate database restore jobs, patch pipelines, backups, and data integrity processes.
• Engineer Guidewire build and deployment pipelines, configuration scripts, and environment management.
• Administer secrets, credentials, and secure runtime configurations across environments to minimize deployment risks.
• Automate production releases, maintenance, and service orchestration to minimize downtime.
• Maintain and enhance Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) automation processes.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Lead and Support containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and reliability engineering.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams on delivery and architecture practices.
• Provide Technical Leadership on Dev Ops best practices, security standards, and Guidewire platform updates.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years relevant experience, including experience in:
• Deployment/configuration in Jenkins
• Network infrastructure, database, cloud and data center operations and security protocols
• Programming and scripting languages like Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, Groovy, or C++
• 5+ years hands on full SDLC software development (with experience in JAVA preferred)

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design and automation, including build, test, deployment, and rollback workflows.
• Working knowledge of Java-based application runtimes and configuration/deployment models.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including automation of database restores, data integrity processes, and deployment-related operations
• Strong knowledge of source code management systems (e.g., Git) and modern branching and merging strategies
• Ability to automate infrastructure, environments, and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Proficiency in scripting and automation languages such as Shell, Python,…