Work with US value streams helping to ensure Hiscox Cloud infrastructure is properly managed, secure and cost effective.
Performance of traditional SRE functions 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, and Terraform. Must know how to edit YAML and strong familiarity with Linux / Oracle.
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 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.
Helping engineers to also grow their knowledge of SRE techniques – especially around Container and Terraform usage / state management – allowing them to self-serve as much as possible.
Working closely with the other US/ITS Infrastructure & DevOps members to agree on best practices around how we use our cloud subscriptions – ensuring resources are properly tagged, conventionally named, and monitored for performance, security and cost.
Knowledge sharing and collaborating with the wider Hiscox SRE and Cloud Infrastructure team members – to share failures, successes and best practices.
Ensuring we tear down PoC/Spike resources when no longer required to keep on top of spend. Regularly looking at the cost explorer for this purpose – ensuring engineers do the same.
Ensuring we have a pathway to multi-cloud tenancy – with a view to always securely use the best cloud provider for the solution. Hiscox US is expanding our use of Azure and keep up to date with this fast-moving tech space.