DevOps Lead Remote Chicago, IL

Join a Winning Team at HUB International

When you join the team at HUB International, you become part of the 5th largest global insurance broker, providing a broad array of property, casualty, risk management, life and health, employee benefits, investment and wealth management products and services. Becoming a part of HUB means that you thrive in an entrepreneurial and fast paced team environment supported by over 14,000 professionals in 500 offices across North America. You will be able to actively contribute to our track record of year over year growth fueled by innovative new products and services, mergers and acquisitions, and a great team of people. As part of our talent engine, you will exemplify our strong core values which drive our unique corporate culture. HUB’s entrepreneurial spirit is evident in our people, products and philanthropic initiatives and we are passionate about our talent!

We are looking for a Devops lead to partner with our Transactional Lines business through its exciting next phase of growth. This role will be charged with leading platform infrastructure and Devops capability and strong partnership with Product Owners, Product Designers, Application Development teams, customers, internal Business Partner Management and PMO functions. They will bring expertise in nurturing and growing a high performing team and a track record of success in building and delivering products that our customers love. This role will be empowered to drive personal and small commercial product growth by assisting in building a 21st century digital brokerage, with a passionate focus on providing protective solutions for both consumers and small business owners.

You will thrive in our fast-paced environment, be an expert collaborator, and a master of enabling employees to have autonomy and impact. You will solve cutting-edge problems as a software engineer specializing in Platform Infrastructure and DevOps.

Responsibilities:

Build and deploy highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant platforms to run production applications that solve business problems

  • Understand the needs and challenges of engineering across operations and development, and then formulate solutions that advance their business and technical goals.

  • Serve as primary technical leader for team of Devops developers

  • Manage overall DevOps team's capacity

  • Participate in estimating and forecasting activities

  • Grow and develop the people on the team; help them to pursue and achieve their career goals

  • Develop solutions encompassing technology, process, and people for:

  • - Continuous Delivery

  • - Infrastructure strategy & operations

  • - Build and release management

  • Work closely with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer user experience, scale/performance, and operability in mind.

  • Develop infrastructure and deployment platform to enable production engineering development.

  • Participate in the full software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, and conducting code reviews.

  • Develop and improve infrastructure including CI/CD, microservice frameworks, distributed computing, and cloud infrastructure needed to support this platform.

Qualifications:

  • 1+ years serving in a lead Devops role or similar capacity

  • 4+ years of experience using one of the following IaC frameworks: Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM

  • 4+ years of experience working with Docker containers

  • 4+ years of experience working on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and associated deep understanding of failover, high-availability, high scalability, and security

  • 2+ years of experience with administering and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GCP, or AKS)

  • Prior experience programming with Python, C#/C/C++, Java, Go, or similar programming language

  • One or more configuration management tools: Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef

  • CI/CD deployment pipelines: Jenkins, TravisCI, Gitlab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure Devops

  • Version control and git workflows

  • Overall understanding of integrations; data and systems

  • Experience with planning and forecasting work and projects

  • Experience with leading teams; in-house, onshore, and off-shore

  • Ability to work with multiple business partners to build strong relationships

  • Ability to explain technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand

  • Ability to work independently and within a team environment and show initiative to take on responsibilities

  • Decision making, research, and analytical leadership and problem-solving skills

  • Time management with the ability to organize, assess, and prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands

  • Experience working in an Agile scrum team

  • Strong interpersonal communication skills

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills

  • Able to work harmoniously and effectively with others

  • Ability to adapt to quickly changing business conditions.

  • Able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities

  • Familiar with solutions hosted in the cloud (Azure, AWS, etc)

  • Willingness to grow and share his/her knowledge with others on the team.

  • Good understanding of SDLC; development and testing methodologies

  • Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum) practices.

Nice to Have:

  • One or more monitoring and analytics platforms: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, SumoLogic, NewRelic, DataDog, CloudWatch, Nagios

  • HashiCorp Vault and integrating it with Kubernetes for secret management

  • Deploying end-to-end logging solutions such as the EFK stack

  • Deploying Prometheus and various exporters (postgres, elasticsearch, etc)

  • Hadoop framework

  • Distributed databases and query languages such as SQL or HQL: Hive, Aster Data, Greenplum, Cassandra, Vertica, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake

  • Developing frameworks, platforms, APIs

  • Developing and maintaining rigorous technical documentation and runbooks

  • Collaborating with the Networking and Security infrastructure teams to achieve and maintain baseline security standards

  • Serverless frameworks

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

About HUB International

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, HUB International Limited (HUB) is a leading full-service global insurance broker providing property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services. From offices located throughout North America, HUB’s vast network of specialists provides peace of mind on what matters most by protecting clients through unrelenting advocacy and tailored insurance solutions. For more information, please visit hubinternational.com.

Disclosure required under applicable municipal regulations in NY and NJ, as well as the law in Colorado: The expected salary range for this position is $135K to $155K and will be impacted by factors such as the successful candidate’s skills, experience and working location, as well as the specific position’s business line, scope and level. HUB International is proud to offer comprehensive benefit and total compensation packages which could include health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, FSA, HSA and 401(k) accounts, paid-time-off benefits, and eligible bonuses, equity and commissions for some positions.

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Required Experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience

Required Travel: Negligible

Required Education: Bachelor's degree (4-year degree)

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About HUB International

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, HUB International Limited (HUB) is a leading full-service global insurance broker providing property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services. From offices located throughout North America, HUB’s vast network of specialists provides peace of mind on what matters most by protecting clients through unrelenting advocacy and tailored insurance solutions. For more information, please visit hubinternational.com.