DevOps Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own assigned applications end to end across their lifecycle: run, maintain, improve and decommission, for a largely on-prem, legacy application portfolio
• ▹Monitoring & Event Management: continuously monitor application health, batch jobs and integration points, using AI-assisted anomaly detection (Dynatrace Davis) to reduce alert noise and mean-time-to-detect, and automate routine remediation
• ▹Change Enablement & Release Support: execute application-level configuration changes and run deployments through CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• ▹Service Request Management: fulfil operational requests such as access provisioning and data corrections
• ▹Application Maintenance & Housekeeping: perform routine upkeep including log rotation, release- and patch management
• ▹Availability & Continuity Management: execute failover and DR procedures and validate that backups meet defined RTO/RPO targets
• ▹Capacity & Performance Management: monitor performance and capacity trends, define SLOs and recommend improvements
• ▹Knowledge Management & Continuous Improvement: maintain runbooks and knowledge articles, use automation and AI to reduce operational toil
• ▹Participate in an on-call rota, providing support to critical applications outside standard working hours
• ▹Incident Management: receive, diagnose and resolve escalated application incidents within SLA timelines
• ▹Problem Management: identify root causes of recurring incidents and maintain the Known Error Database
• ▹Security Operations & Compliance: maintain ICT asset inventories, support resilience testing, produce ICT incident records and audit evidence for regulatory (DORA) resilience reporting, ensure compliance with company and legislative specifications
• ▹Security remediation & access governance: remediate vulnerabilities and apply security patches across the on-prem stack (Linux, IBM WebSphere, nginx), act on GitHub Advanced Security and code-scanning findings

About the company

Allianz is an international insurance and financial services company.