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Zurich, ZH, CH

Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure for iptiQ EMEA P&C 

About iptiQ EMEA P&C

iptiQ EMEA Property & Casualty is a newly built unit within Swiss Re Life Capital, established to deliver digital-native and creative solutions for Property & Casualty (P&C) clients and partners across Europe that engage with consumers in non-traditional ways.

About the role

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will have an unusual and great opportunity to join us: a diverse and motivated team, committed to delivering value and creative services together with our clients and partners in the primary insurance space.

Responsibilities

You will work closely in cross functional teams to shape the technology platform that fulfill our business and product vision and ultimately bring value to our customers and partners by disrupting the traditional insurance proposition.

This will require tackling complex problems within a high-traffic distributed infrastructure by designing, implementing and testing highly automated solutions guaranteeing the level of scalability, reliability and performance expected from customer-facing applications.

This will include:

• End-to-end engagement, from inception to production, in designing, deploying, operating and continuously improving high-availability services in multiple environments


• Deliver high-quality code and solutions, focusing on reliability, automation and maintainability and security in order to improve performance and fault-tolerance of new or existing services


• Run production system alongside product engineering teams, monitoring key metrics around availability, latency and performance. Drive incidents resolution affecting the production platform and root cause investigation within postmortems establishing a culture of collaboration between teams


• Focus on delivering automated and self-healing systems. Continuously engage in capacity planning and exploring solutions to increase the efficiency of the platform leveraging the opportunities of the public clouds


• Contribute to development, support and maintenance of continuous delivery solutions

About the team

We put the consumers' needs at the centre of what we do, aim to become a digital champion and believe in data based learning. We use the Swiss Re network to access state of the art technologies and capabilities, combine it with local expertise and an innovative mind-set, constantly questioning current ways of offering insurance. Our aim is to drive the digitalisation of the P&C insurance business in Europe, combining insurance know-how and e-commerce competencies, as well as the dynamic spirit of a start-up with the backing of Swiss Re.

Do you enjoy thinking ahead and identifying new opportunities or anticipate future challenges? Do you like driving complex, cross-functional projects in an agile way? Do you enjoy pushing borders and have a passion for the latest technologies?

About you

• 5+ years of significant hands-on experience with large-scale, customer-facing micro services architectures and best practices around designing, building, scaling and monitoring high-traffic concurrent infrastructure, possibly in different technologies stacks


• You understand the implications and the thread-offs of different solutions with regards to performance, reliability, availability and security


• Analytical and structured approach in troubleshooting distributed architectures


• Strong problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach to incidents mitigation, triage and resolution


• Solid experience with cloud computing platforms (particularly AWS), applications containerization/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), configuration management (Terraform, Ansible) and implementing continuous delivery and deployment solutions (Jenkins, Spinnaker, ...) is a plus


• Proficiency with languages like Perl, Python, Go, Rust, Java and advanced bash scripting


• Experience working in Agile environment using Scrum/Kanban/TDD


• Great team player: you collaborate effectively with team members, express technical leadership arguing your views and ideas while keeping open to different opinions, being humble and always contributing to the overall growth of the team


• Avid learner who stays up-to-date with the latest trends and can vet with pragmatism and long term vision the adoption of new technologies


• Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent working experience


• Ability to speak and write English fluently

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

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