Senior DevOps Engineer

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer - Fully Remote Job
Senior Dev Ops Engineer
Following extensive global expansion over several years and a drive to standardise common systems and platforms globally, PL Re is undertaking a major back-office transformation programme and has established a Divisional Data Team to develop and manage an enterprise-wide data solution, reporting services and to embed best practice data governance.

We are looking to appoint a Dev Ops Senior to contribute towards the Dev Ops function within the Divisional Data Team (DDT). Dev Ops is the highest-risk pillar of the data engineering operating model, owning CI/CD, database change management, environment control, release management and platform access. The role reports to the AVP, Data Engineering, who is responsible for prioritizing, planning and driving forward the data engineering and transformation activities required.

The role holder will build close working relationships with data engineering, testing, reporting, architecture and IT infrastructure teams across our operating geographies, and will be responsible for ensuring releases are controlled, auditable and repeatable.

Azure Dev Ops platform ownership

• Own the Azure Dev Ops organisation and project configuration for the Divisional Data Team, including projects, teams, security groups, service connections, variable groups and secure files.

• Use Azure Boards to plan, track and report Dev Ops work, and integrate work items with commits, pull requests and releases for traceability.

• Manage Azure Artifacts feeds, package versioning and retention policies.

Define, document and enforce the branching strategy across all repositories (for example trunk-based or Git Flow-style dev/SIT/UAT/production branches), including naming conventions and promotion paths.

• Set and maintain branch policies: required reviewers, minimum approvals, linked work items, build validation, comment resolution and merge strategy (squash, rebase or merge commit).

• Own the pull request process — review quality standards, approval routing, and clear rules on who may approve changes to which repository.

• Manage repository security, path-based policies, protected branches, forks and cross-repository dependencies.

• Implement and maintain pre-commit and pre-merge quality gates, including linting, formatting and automated tests.

• Manage repository hygiene: history management, large file handling, retention, archiving and repository migration where required.

• Deployment and CI/CD

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (YAML-based) for Snowflake SQL, dbt models, Streamlit applications, stored procedures and supporting scripts.

• Own database change management (DCM), including the transition to and operation of a state-based deployment approach across development, SIT, UAT and production.

• Maintain consistent, reproducible environments and infrastructure-as-code, including configuration management across environments.

• Implement automated testing, deployment gates, approvals and post-deployment validation within pipelines.

• Ensure reliable rollback and recovery mechanisms for failed deployments.

Own the end-to-end release calendar and release process for the data platform, coordinating with delivery, testing and business stakeholders.

• Maintain a complete and auditable release trail linking requirements, code, approvals and deployments to satisfy internal control and audit requirements.

• Conduct post-implementation reviews and drive continuous improvement in deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore.

Own role-based access control (RBAC) design and administration across Snowflake and Azure Dev Ops, including role hierarchy, secrets management and privileged access.

• Implement and maintain data masking and PII controls,…