DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our UK Team and champion best practices in the cloud. In this role, your expertise will be instrumental in fostering our DevOps culture—driving collaboration between development and operations teams, improving delivery cadence, and enhancing the performance and reliability of our systems.

he day-to-day responsibilities of this role include:

• Deploying applications in an automated fashion by creating and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure as code
• Designing highly available and cost-effective architectures
• Monitoring, alerting, and supporting production environments to keep systems stable and running
• Providing off-hour support when needed to troubleshoot problems with mission-critical applications and take actions resulting from root cause analysis
• Recommending solutions that align with the business needs and requirements
• Providing configuration recommendations and assistance
• Assisting in the development of detailed project specifications and implementation plans
• Contributing work to central cloud architecture team to benefit Verisk as a whole

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in cloud architecture, preferably with AWS
• Hands-on expertise with containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in Python development and familiarity with modern development methodologies
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with experience in CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform
• Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with tools such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Chef, or Jenkins
• Creative, solutions-driven approach with a passion for continuous improvement
• Experience in agile processes (Kanban/Scrum) and tools like JIRA
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written

Why Join Verisk?

• Work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
• Contribute to high-impact projects with global reach
• Grow your career in a collaborative, innovative environment
• Be part of a culture that values diversity, continuous learning, and work–life balance