DevOps Engineer (hybrid or remote)

• About Us

   

  The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

   

  You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

   

  Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight). Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

   

  Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance. 

   

   

  Location

   

  Belfast/ Derry – Londonderry/ Strabane/ Remote, GB

   

   

  Your role in the team

   

  Arity:

  Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone.

  At the heart of that mission are the people that work here—the dreamers, doers and difference-makers that call this place home. As part of that team, your work will showcase both your intelligence and your creativity as you tackle real problems and put your talents towards transforming transportation.

  That’s because at Arity, we believe work and life shouldn’t be at odds with one another. After all, we know that your unique qualities give you a unique perspective. We don’t just want you to see yourself here. We want you to be yourself here.

   

   

   

  Engineering Team:

   

   

  Our engineers are fueled by a passion to impact the future of mobility. They push the boundaries of telematics and transportation tech by creating and supporting cutting-edge products. As part of an Agile team, they are armed with the freedom to innovate and the opportunity to see projects through from start to finish. Using a variety of languages and a top-notch technology stack, our engineers make critical advances in areas like sensor technology, enterprise engineering and platform development. Our team understands what it means to collaborate and communicate in an interconnected global team, all while having trust, transparency, and empathy for the end user. Which is pretty cool, if you ask us?

   

   

   

  The Role:

   

   

  At Arity we are utilizing cutting edge development languages, tools, web services and cloud technologies to deliver amazing capabilities and products. We are searching for talented and technical engineers who can help design and develop our products further.

  A successful candidate will be an Automation Engineer who can help our engineers and developers deliver business value faster and more reliably.  

   

  • You will focus on building common tools and increase automation for tools our engineers use to build, test, and release software. 
  • You will collaborate within the team and across all engineering teams in Arity to implement and deliver features.
  • You will engineer the tools our developers will use to deliver applications to production.
  • You will automate steps of our deployment process with the goal of increasing quality.
  • You will develop highly complex CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry) to interact with multiple downstream systems and workflows
  • You will secure applications by automating scanning and updates
  • You will be passionate about technology, software, and the Internet of Things. 
  • You will drive secure solutions and best practices through mentoring. 
  • You will lead the hands-on technical delivery of new services and capabilities 

   

   

   

   About You:

   

   

  • You have a proven ability to work on and lead high priorities initiative with aggressive timelines.
  • You are comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment with a willingness to step up and take the initiative.
  • You have demonstrated a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.
  • You have excellent listening and communication skills. You must be able to communicate   technical information clearly, across a range of technical and non-technical individuals
  • Good understanding and appreciation of industry trends within the mobile telematics space
  • Good research and analytical skills
  • Good problem-solving skills with a focus on code quality
  • Be a team player, highly enthusiastic and self-motivated
  • Be a self-starter who can work unsupervised

   

   

  So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

   

  • All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK'
  • 3+ years’ software IT development experience and
  • Experience with Groovy and Python and
  • Experience with a range of CI/CD platforms and tools. For Example, GitHub, Fastlane, Jenkins, Concourse, Gradle, ComplianceBuddy, Artifactory, Nexus, AppCenter, TestFlight and
  • Experience setting up rules for linters such as Swiftlint and Android Lint and
  • Experience setting up dashboards and integrating with security and code scanning tools and
  • Experience with cloud technologies. For example, AWS, Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Docker, and Kubernetes and
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms, For Example, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, ECC and PagerDuty

   

   

   

   

  We also have some desirable criteria

   

   

  • Willingness to learn and quickly adopt new technologies that impact DevOps engineering
  • Experience in mobile application development and publishing – IOS or Android
  • Knowledge of mobile package managers such as Cocoapods, Carthage, Swift Package Manager, and Maven
  • Experience creating secure automation scripts and solutions in public clouds
  • Experience and knowledge in TDD, test driven development.
  • Understanding of the values of Enterprise Change, Release, and Incident management
  • Understanding of the values of Product Performance, testing standards and best practices.
  • Experience with API gateways. For example, APIGEE, Mulesoft, or AWS API Gateway

   

   

  Apply Here: https://bit.ly/3IOR8a5 

   

   

  What we offer

   

  As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

   

  Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

   

  We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

   

  We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

   

   

  Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

   

  Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants.  This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

   

  We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

   

  Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

   

   

  The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 8th April 2022