Senior DevOps Engineer

AAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead their transition from legacy infrastructure to a modern, cloud-native environment. This role is critical in shaping the future of their technology stack, focusing on cloud platforms, automation, and infrastructure as code while mentoring junior engineers and driving digital transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate simple to complex Java/JEE, WebSphere applications into DEV, Test and Production environments, the applications can be a combination of in-house developed or vendor-delivered applications. Formulate and enforce application deployment and integration standards
• Design, develop, Implement, and support the run-time architecture for of complex system landscapes
• Develop, implement, and maintain the environment by automating deployment and various configurations
• Actively participates in project meetings and provides input to design and implementation of middleware solutions
• Actively participates in Architect meetings to provide architectural designs, diagrams and recommendations that impact technology decisions made throughout the company
• Facilitating the project team in planning, estimating and non-functional requirements on the project
• Proactively analyze the entire environment and recommend, develop, and implement improvements. Be a champion for process improvements, fostering innovative thinking
• Performs periodic reviews of the technical operating environment and ensures adherence to corporate networking standards. Where standards are unclear, or undefined, they assist in the creation or updating of policies and procedures
• Takes personal ownership for problems and independently performs complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development and implementation
• Research modern technologies to see where they could fit within our SDLC to help with smooth deployments while increasing uptime and reducing customer impact
• Maintains clear and concise documentation representative of the operating environment including Architectural diagrams, policies, procedures, and standards. Is extraordinarily strong at documentation
• Acts as the technical lead to the rest of the Middleware team
• Develops, maintains, and evaluates Disaster Recovery plans
• Willingness to work overtime, weekends, and irregular hours

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of DevOps engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role
• Proven experience with CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) and release automation
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) and experience with multi-account cloud patterns
• Demonstrated observability experience (OpenTelemetry, tracing, metrics, logging — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Hands-on experience with application servers and middleware technologies (IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Glassfish, Payara, WebLogic)
• Experience with application performance monitoring, disaster recovery planning, and high availability solutions
• Solid understanding of SSL, load balancers, DNS, and networking fundamentals
• Experience with testing and debugging tools (LoadRunner, RFHUTIL, JUnit)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and SDLC processes
• Strong documentation, architectural diagramming, and technical leadership skills
• Security-first mindset: integrating SAST/DAST, secrets scanning, OIDC/OAuth and RBAC into pipelines and runtime
• Background in insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
• Experience with IBM MQ, Message Broker, DataPower, WSRR, and middleware security
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle)
• Experience with application delivery controllers (e.g., Citrix NetScaler, F5)
• Exposure to configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Familiarity with developer portals (Backstage) and platform-as-product practices