Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer Expert you are taking part in the next phase of our tooling harmonization initiative, to provide the best services towards our development teams and to improve the adoption of standard tools throughout the organization. You work closely with several stakeholders, product owners, system architects and developer teams. Together with them, you will shape the tooling and processes for developing high quality and secure software assets.
Our Development Platform Center of Excellence is responsible for providing the development tool chain, application scaffolders and test automation standards to simplify and standardize development activities across full Allianz teams. We are building a state-of-the-art e-platform to share development experience in different teams between countries and branches as well as harmonizing our extensive development platform.

Major Responsibilities

•Develops CI/CD solutions for the services developed and operated by the team

•Develops IaC based solutions for creating and maintaining the infrastructure of the services operated by the team

•Supports customers in the onboarding process and regular usage of these services

•Monitors the operating environment of these services and responds to incidents

•Participates actively in knowledge sharing activities like communities of practice, and/or other knowledge exchanges.

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor/B-Tech/B-E

Experience

• 8 to 15 Years

Technical Skills (Mandatory)

• State-of-the-art CI/CD best practices, experience with setting up and maintaining build and deployment pipelines
• CD technologies, especially geared towards Kubernetes and public cloud, especially ArgoCD and Helm
• Container and container orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
• Cloud platforms, including AWS (Must) and Azure (optional)
• Infrastructure as Code technologies, especially Terraform/OpenTofu and Crossplane
• Software development and scripting languages, to provide automation and self-service tooling
• Various automation frameworks, regarding build, test, integration and deployment, including Jenkins automation server and GitHub Actions
• Git, especially GitHub
• Knowledge and experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines, e.g. using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD
• Knowledge and experience with Helm, Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane
• Knowledge and experience in container, container orchestration and container registry technologies, like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Harbor
• AWS (MUST), especially EKS, S3, EC2, secrets manager, RDS, Networking, Route53 Azure (optional), especially Azure Entra ID
• Good understanding of build & run-time concepts and maintenance of Java, Spring Boot, Node.js and Python applications
• Familiarity with scripting languages, e.g. Groovy & Python (MUST), Unix shell, Windows PowerShell (OPTIONAL)

Functional/Domain Knowledge (If required)

Other skills (Preferable technical skills /Soft skills)

• Knowledge and experience in logging and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Dynatrace, Prometheus
• Knowledge and experience using and operating software quality assessment tools like SonarQube, TeamScale
• Knowledge and experience using and operating test automation frameworks and tools like JUnit, TestNG, REST-assured, Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright, JMeter, Gatling, Postman

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.