Senior DevOps Engineer

Westfield Group, Insurance • Westfield Center, OH

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About The Position

Westfield is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help modernize and secure our software delivery platforms. In this hands-on role, you'll work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and security. This includes advancing automation, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, and strengthening platform reliability. You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams to embed security into every phase of the delivery process, while driving adoption of DevOps best practices across the enterprise.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or application engineering role, with hands-on implementation of modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and coaching developers on DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using pipeline-as-code.
• Solid understanding of good version control best practices (e.g., Git workflows, branching strategies).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Azure DevOps, OpenShift, and JIRA in a production environment.
• Exposure to DevSecOps tooling such as SonarQube, Snyk, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and principles (e.g., Terraform, Helm).

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of our DevOps toolchain, focusing on automation, scalability, and security integration.
• Work directly with development teams to promote DevOps principles, optimizing workflows, enabling shift-left practices, and reducing friction in day-to-day engineering.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code.
• Help manage and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Integrate quality and security checks into the development lifecycle using tools like SonarQube, Snyk, etc.
• Explore, evaluate and implement advancements to our DevOps practice.
• Provide thought leadership in advancing the organization's DevOps strategy, alignment with business goals and technology trends.
• Advance branching and code merge strategies that enable frequent releases.
• Streamline the development and deployment platforms and processes, ensuring efficient collaboration between development, infrastructure and other stakeholders.
• Ensure synergies between software development and IT operations through automation, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure management standards and best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees