.Job Type: PermanentBuild a brilliant future with HiscoxAbout us:HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth.In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees' well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.The Team:The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.The Role:The primary focus for this role is to be a key and influential member of our London Market Infrastructure & DevOps Chapter with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering and offer dedicated support to our various Innovation squads as we create solutions to add value to the business.Key Responsibilities:Work with LM innovation squads helping to ensure our infrastructure in the Cloud is properly managed, secure and cost effective.Performing a traditional SRE role – with the goal of automating all things infrastructure – ensuring it is wholly scripted and deployed as part of an automated DevOps CI/CD pipeline with little or no human interaction – making good use of existing tools like Azure DevOps, Puppet, Docker, YAML and Terraform.Ensuring our production and dev/test environments are secure, performant, scalable, consistent (through scripting) and monitored accordingly – so we can take proactive steps towards improving all of these aspects over time and are fully aware of existing issues.Ensuring our cloud environments are secure and safe – setting up and making sure Private and Public subnets are appropriately and cost effectively secured.Supporting squad engineers with the design and architecture of the overall solution – ensuring infrastructure is a key part of the overall consideration.Actively participating in incident management, problem resolution and root cause analysis scenarios.On a day to day basis, working alongside engineers – pairing and collaborating as necessary. Working in an Agile manner and within sprints – focused on specific cloud solutions
