Lead 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.

Note for NJ candidates:
This role will be located at our future headquarters in Short Hills, N.J. 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 Lead Dev Ops Engineer with Cloud technologies experience to innovate and improve our ability to accelerate value delivery to our customers. As a key contributor to driving efficient development practices the successful candidate will help in defining and implementing best practices and patterns. They will work to identify opportunities to design, implement, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery patterns.

As a hands‑on lead 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.

• Designs and leads the implementation of Cloud‑based architectures, cloud networking, and containerization with experience in patterns/automation using Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Designs and leads the implementation of CI/CD and other automation solutions and identifies design patterns with emphasis on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Creates and improves process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other collateral to convey technical details and association with requested outcomes.
• Leads the technical evaluation of Dev Ops solutions, understands existing industry Dev Ops solutions, and designs any required custom system integrations.
• Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for Dev Ops architecture within development teams.
• Measures and demonstrates the benefits and/or business value of Dev Ops improvements.
• Presents innovative complex solutions/ideas across all levels of participants and works in a team environment as both a leader and an individual contributor.
• Identifies customer, business and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders.
• Identifies gaps and proposes modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC.
• Debugs/troubleshoots issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.

• 5+ years of experience in applications development
• 3+ years of experience designing Dev Ops pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure Dev Ops, Sonar Qube and YAML.
• Prior experience as a Dev Ops engineer with focus on Azure Cloud Services
• In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, and Azure Security.
• Proficiency in Azure Dev Ops and building CI/CD pipelines, that includes Azure environment provisioning tasks.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM)…