Sr. DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

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.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Selective will not sponsor or assume the sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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.

Overview Selective is seeking a distinguished Senior DevOps Engineer with Cloud technologies experience to innovate and improve our ability to accelerate value delivery to our customers. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in innovating and enhancing our ability to expedite value delivery to our customers. As a key contributor to driving efficient development practices, the candidate will be instrumental in defining and implementing best practices and patterns. They will identify opportunities to design, implement, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery patterns. As a hands-on senior 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.

• Design and oversee the implementation of cloud-based architecture, networking, and containerization, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code for automation and patterns.
• Lead the creation and deployment of CI/CD and other automation solutions, focusing on design patterns that emphasize reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Develop and enhance process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other materials to convey technical details and their alignment with desired outcomes.
• Conduct technical evaluations of DevOps solutions, understand existing industry options, and design necessary custom system integrations.
• Serve as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teams.
• Measure and demonstrate the benefits and business value of DevOps improvements.
• Present innovative and complex solutions/ideas to participants at all levels, working both as a leader and an individual contributor.
• Identify customer, business, and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders.
• Identify gaps and propose modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines.

• Over 5 years of experience in applications development.
• More than 5 years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube, and YAML.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure App Service, Logic Apps, VMSS and Azure Security.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines, including Azure environment provisioning tasks.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud cost optimization, governance, and implementing FinOps practices.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive change and foster a DevOps culture across teams.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery strategies and high-availability architectures in cloud environments.
• Self-starter who is capable of working independently and making decisions when necessary/as applicable.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and have the ability to mentor others.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in an Agile environment, preferably SAFe.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Experience in Application Security / DevSecOps roles.

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and paid time off plans. Additional details about our total rewards package will be provided during the recruiting process.

The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.