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Company Description

Open GI is a leading software development company and a trusted partner to the general insurance industry. Based across the UK and Europe, our support and development services make us a truly diverse organisation that offers a range of IT solutions to insurance brokers, insurers and managing general agents.

 

Position

• High quality technical implementation of dynamic infrastructure, aligned to business value
• Effective use of appropriate infrastructure technology
• Positive impact on wider team engineering practices

A technical contributor who builds or improves infrastructure - both in production and pre-production, including continuous delivery aspects. They provide, evolve and support dynamic infrastructure as a service to engineering teams. This infrastructure is defined as code, delivered using agile engineering practices. Additionally, ensures infrastructure meets functional and cross-functional requirements and SLAs, including availability, performance, security, and compliance. Sets the example for technical best practices and constantly looks to enable consumers of their platform to self-serve.

Requirements

Your key responsibilities

• Getting code into production: Ability to get code of all types—including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes, and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way.

• Application runtimes: Ability to analyse, provision, configure, secure, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain systems for deploying and running software.

• Cloud ecosystem: Ability to analyse, provision, configure, secure, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain systems for managing infrastructure on IaaS and related cloud, virtualization, and dynamic hardware management systems.

• Deployment Automation: Ability to design and implement processes to package, deploy, and configure application software. This includes build tools, packaging formats for servers, containers, and mobile.

• Infrastructure as code: Ability to analyse, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshoot code used to manage IaaS and related dynamic infrastructure. Cloud management automation, image build management, cloud programming APIs, and automated infrastructure testing.

• Networking administration: Ability to analyse, provision, configure, secure, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain networking. Includes network protocols, physical and virtual networking and constructs for data centres and cloud platforms, as well as networking security.

• Observability: The ability to analyse, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshoot monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and observability services.

• Performance and scalability engineering: Ability to assess, recommend, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshooting measures to ensure systems perform as needed. This includes responsiveness, coping with traffic load, coping with large data sets, and processing times.

• Securing infrastructure: Ability to design and implement infrastructure which exhibits good security properties. Able to provision security services in order in order to, for example secure data at rest and in transit.

• System administration: Ability to analyse, provision, configure, secure, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain one or more server operating systems. Includes different operating systems, compute types, account management, service management, package management, configuration management tools, shells and scripting languages, securing operating systems, and server testing tools.

• Vulnerability testing: Ability to perform manual exploratory testing for vulnerabilities in both applications and infrastructure and show how to mitigate.

• Incident response: Ability to assist a delivery team in the event of a data breach or security incident.

• Infrastructure testing: Ability to assess, recommend, plan, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshooting measures to validate infrastructure is implemented correctly. This includes an awareness of patterns, practices, and forces relevant to infrastructure testing.

• Estimation: Ability to apply various estimation techniques to predict the most realistic amount of effort required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy input.

• Evolutionary Architecture: guides the technical decisions that shape an architecture over time with the goal of improving along multiple prioritized business and technology dimensions simultaneously.

• Performance & Scalability Engineering: assesses, recommends, designs, implements, optimizes, and troubleshoots measures to ensure systems perform as needed. This includes responsiveness, coping with traffic load, coping with large data sets, and processing times.

• Pipeline Design & Automation: analyses, plans, designs, secures, implements and troubleshoots systems that orchestrate taking software from source code to production. This includes CI and CD systems, source code and artefact repositories, and integration of validation tooling for functional correctness, security, performance.

• Legacy remediation: Ability to operate in or around older systems, and devise and execute strategies for modernizing and improving them. This includes awareness of a range of legacy architectures and the patterns and tactics for the stabilization, remediation or replacement of them. The ability to analyse the technical, business, and operational pain-points of applications and broader systems. Identifying incremental steps towards a future state architecture, including techniques for stabilizing with test harnesses, intercepting and rerouting or duplicating functional and data flows, extraction of services or tiers, wrapping with facades or adapters, refactoring, and strangulation and end-of-life.

• Agile & Lean Principles: understands lean and agile principles for achieving quality, adaptability, speed & alignment. This includes the practices, techniques and tools that support those principles, and an understanding of when things may or may not be applicable in a situation or context.

• Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands and manages their own emotions and recognizes, understands, shares and influences the emotions of others.

• Collaboration: works jointly with others to co-create and achieve a common goal. This includes learning, practising and experimenting with tools, techniques and frameworks that foster collaborative working environments.

What you’ll need to succeed

Experience

• 2+ years of infrastructure software development experience
• Experience working with Extreme Programming methods an advantage but not necessary
• Experience providing infrastructure services to cross-functional, build-and-run
• teams
• Experience supporting services running in a cloud-based production environment

Aptitudes

• Drives to Outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Ownership & Accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade-offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
• Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.

Other information

Mission and Values

Our mission is to be both the Technology Partner and Employer of choice for the UK General Insurance Market. Our values are central to this vision, as they represent how we collaborate how we work together in synergy and continually deliver for our customers:

• Accountability: We take personal pride in finding solutions and achieving results
• Innovation: We lead the market by being proactive, product-led and forward thinking
• Teamwork: We work collaboratively, recognising and celebrating success
• Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

Benefits package

• Competitive salary depending on skills and experience
• Positive, friendly and fun working environment
• Support for personal and professional development
• Daily lunches and additional benefits
• Private health insurance package
• Referral bonuses
• Social events
• Flexible working hours

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