Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes (Work from Home - US)

Job Family

IT - DevOps Engineering

Who We Are

 

Transamerica has been helping people feel better about the future for more than 100 years. We provide investment, retirement, and life insurance solutions to more than 11 million customers throughout the U.S. But the way we see it, our responsibility goes beyond our clients’ accounts. We’re in the business of helping people live well and empowering them to create a better tomorrow through the financial and health-related habits they form today. We help people prepare by providing solutions that consider the whole picture.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Employee Benefits, and Financial Assets), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People, Places & Brand; Risk; and Technology).

Job Description Summary

Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world.

From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralized global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more.
We continue to maximize the value from having a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, as an approach to digitization, enhancing customer experience, and improving operational efficiency.
All of these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support. This is essential for enabling Aegon's businesses around the globe to be innovative, digital and competitive, efficient, and effective, and to provide the best solutions and customer experience for our customers and shareholders.

Job Description

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will work on an agile team with developers from internal business units to deliver business value and outcomes. You will develop, test, and implement infrastructure code to assist the team in achieving their goals. Work will be done start to finish by an intact cross-functional team using an agile methodology, and employing the assistance of a scrum master, product owner, and agile coach. Each member of the team brings unique technical skills and strives to cross train to gain additional technical knowledge across multiple disciplines in an exciting and dynamic work environment.

What You Will Do:

• Deliver 'best-in-breed' cloud-native platform infrastructure hosting micro-services and API's that deliver high-volume, time-sensitive operational intelligence
• Build, configure and maintain high-quality Kubernetes cluster builds hosting our data and insights products to ensure uptime, creating new non-production environments and periodically refreshing customer-facing production environments
• Lead migration of front-end / back-end services and APIs from self-managed infrastructure to Kubernetes platforms collectively owned by the Kubernetes Engineering team and BU partners
• Develop and support the tools and infrastructure that support the SDLC pipeline and configuration management capabilities
• Develop, Deploy and Support Cloud Infrastructure, as code artifacts or modules
• Design, Build and Maintain Cloud infrastructure and applications
• Support and deliver using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines
• Design and Support resiliency and scalability using AWS and other cloud platforms
• Enable systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Support the Team and Customers with day-to-day requests, Change and Incident tickets
• Support Technology stack refresh on Systems (end-to-end) when required
• Ensure automated security is built into each technology stack

What You Will Need:

• Qualifications
• Five or more years of experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Three years or more of continuous integration and continuous delivery experience
• Prior full-time, hands-on experience managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
• Deep working knowledge of Kubernetes administration concepts and services
• Proficiency with Kubernetes-related tools like kubectl, helm and K8S
• Proficiency with CloudBees administration and CI installations
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform
• Four-year Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent work experience
• 2-3 years of experience working in a high performing