Job Title: DevOps Release Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £55,000 - £65,000
Location: Eastleigh

DevOps Release Engineer: Ageas is seeking an experienced and result driven DevOps Release Engineer to work as a part of a cross-functional team, with hands on experience working within the organisation’s software development lifecycle. This role heavily focuses on day-to-day management of application build, release and deploy aspects to deliver faster and safer continuous high-quality software to business.

Main Responsibilities as DevOps Release Engineer: 

• Take ownership of creating and maintaining exiting CI/CD solutions (Jenkins & Azure DevOps) to meet build, test, release and deploy & security requirements.
• Manage and perform application build, package and software release management process to deploy to all environments
• Hands on proven experience in developing standardised, automated build & release processes to support agile delivery methodology.
• Define, create & manage application software code branches to support application branching approach. Experience with source code management system e.g. git is essential.
• Liaise with 3rd party vendors for application support pertaining to DevOps and production deployment.

Skills and experience you need as DevOps Release Engineer:

• Demonstrable experience (at least 5 years) as a DevOps Release Engineer or similar roles. Experience with EIS policy admin system will be highly desirable.
• Proven experience and hands on experience with wide range of DevOps toolchain – Jenkins, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Git / GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Selenium.
• Experience with cloud technologies – Azure e.g. Kubernetes, App Services, Azure Functions etc. and proficiency in managing cloud-based infrastructure.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the DevOps Release Engineer role based in Eastleigh: 

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. 

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.

To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

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