Cloud L3 Devops Engineer

About AXA

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

About the entity

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation. 

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

·        State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience.

·        State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks.

·        High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

Job position pitch 

If you are as enthusiastic as we are about the new opportunities in the Azure Cloud journey, then we have the right position for you. We need cloud platform manager like you to make the difference and crack the pitfalls in our ambitious but disciplined journey to expand our team of Azure specialist supporting AXA Cloud Strategy in the Risk Management area.

Where will you be in the organization?

The division 

Group Technology Operations (GTO)aims at designing, developing, and operating Global AXA IT products, delivering them to AXA Entities and the AXA Group, at the right level of quality of service and cost and aligned with business-driven priorities. Its missions can be summarized in four main activities: global product delivery, global product portfolio management, day-to-day operations management, and entities proximity management.

The department / team

You will join the Corporate Functions Global Products department. In its “IT for Business” duty, our department designs, builds and operates end user global applications in the domain of Corporate & Support Functions, organized in 24 products within 6 lines of products (Finance, Investment, Procurement, Risk Management, HR/Communication, Compliance).

Our main mission is to be the preferred partner of the Business families in Corporate Functions while ensuring excellence and consistency across our products in:

·        Implementing, operating and managing Group and/or Global Solutions

·        Delivering advisory services in answer to Business requirements and stakes

·        Leveraging a market leading right-shored delivery model

·        Continuously integrating customer centricity, efficiency, innovation & technology in our operating model

You will integrate a high performing team of ~200 experts, mainly located in France and Portugal (and supported by offshored managed services), with a strong focus on delivery, collaboration, commitment and value creation, where you will have the opportunity to learn and develop yourself in cutting-edge technologies and engage in activities that relate directly with business processes and functions, working together with the colleagues from the Group Corporate departments.

About the job

Job purpose 

Our department is committed to offering to our customer entities cloud-based solutions that run with the expected performance and robustness, while being efficient and cost-effective. As cloud DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving this, by managing and balancing the business requirements and technical needs with the cloud capacity and respective costs, considering the growing cloud footprint and the evolving business solutions strategy.

Main missions 

Your responsibilities include:

• Participation in infrastructure development for projects: migration, new need, POC …

•  Contribute to architecture design and technical workload estimation.

•  Design and implement CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps.

•  Developpe IaC templates such as ARM and Terraform.

•  Testing and monitoring of implemented solution.

•  Document all work with high quality delivery.

•  Participate and contribute to agile ceremonies for project management: daily, Sprint planning…

•  Coordination with project team to ensure correct implementation of expressed needs.

•  Overall BAU Management for Non-Production environments

•  Incident, Request and Change Management

•  Regular platform security reviews

•  IT Vulnerability detection and resolution

•  Ensure quality delivery.

•  Platform Monitoring

•  Pipeline design and implementation

•  Knowledge transfer with L2 teams

•  Support some annual BAU activities.

About you 

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills: 

Experience 

• Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.

•  More than 5 years in consulting, in process and IT implementation in international context, with multi-location teams

• English: Fluent

Technical skills 

• Experience in Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure

•  Experience in IaC development with Azure ARM and Terraform

•  Experience in Microsoft SQL server.   

•  Rigor and Excellent level in algorithmics.

•  Good knowledge of cloud frameworks.

•  Knowledge in developing CI/CD pipelines.

•  Knowledge in IT Architecture

•  Knowledge in Cloud Security

Soft skills / transversal skills 

•  Excellent communication skills.

•  Attentive, available, and reliable with good team spirit.

•  Proactivity and results orientation (be able to propose new ideas to optimize memory, simulation time and infrastructure cost.)

•  Degree in a relevant area, such as, Computer Science, Management.

•  Azure Cloud, microservices architecture, OpenPaas, Azure DevOps, GIT

•  Insurance, Risk Management

What we offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

We offer exciting opportunities for career development and expertise consolidation, promoting internal mobility, comprehensive training offers and mentoring programs.

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of
respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.