Team Context
We are building a new team that will be charged with driving strategic change across the Digital Services organisation within Aflac. The DevOps strategy will enable developers across our Agile teams to build pipelines that will automate the elevation and release process, leverage test-automation capabilities, and shift gears as we move to an increasing number of Cloud platforms. The investment in this technology will ensure that we are delivering exceptional experiences for our 50 million policyholders.
But it’s not just a technology change; it’s a mindset change. Pivoting an organisation towards a new way of doing things, requires a passion for progress and a determination to eradicate manual effort. And so, we will be building a team of DevOps experts who love the technology, but more importantly can instil the following core principles into Agile teams:
We’ll be using a range of different tools and technologies, and the goal is to empower our developers to develop, build, test, and deploy their code in a frictionless way. We want them to be masters of their own destiny and avoid relying on countless invisible teams to perform tasks on their behalf. The aim is to coach and guide our development teams to harness the power of the tools at their disposal; help them identify the pain-points and solve the issues themselves; give them a kickstart and then let them run.
The team will spend dedicated time with Agile development teams in Northern Ireland and in the US, delivering workshops and dojos that will provide demonstrable change in just a few days. The DevOps strategy at Aflac is building momentum and delivering value, and now we need to accelerate the effort with a new high-performing team in Belfast that will bring it to a new level. Should be fun!
Role Context
We are looking for an experienced DevOps professional who know how to maximise the potential of DevOps tools and technologies so that Development teams can streamline their integration and deployment processes. Someone who is technically astute with a range of CI/CD tools, familiar with test automation, code integration, secure development practices, deployment automation and everything else that goes into a mature DevOps process.
We want someone who has significant experience of DevOps tools and platforms, can understand the technical complexities that come with enterprise systems. Someone who knows their GitHub from their Kubernetes, and their Jenkins from their SonarQube. We are for a technologist who is passionate about improvement software practices and can sit down with Developers and Testers and get into the weeds of their technical problems, develop workable solutions with them, and build their confidence in the DevOps strategy.
What you’ll be doing
What you should have
Below is an overview of the skills and experience we are looking for, but remember, don’t rule yourself out if you don’t have everything on the list – it’s your intellect and your attitude we’re really after.
Essential
Desirable
Experience in process improvement practices and patterns:
So that’s us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far (pretty impressive in the era of the 280 character tweet). We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining a tech innovation company with the agility of a start-up and the stability of a Fortune 500 U.S. company.
Aflac NI is an equal opportunities employer
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