DevOps Engineer, Descartes Underwriting

• Knowledge of the tech stack and demonstrated proficiency in production environments
• Experience with Docker
• Experience automating a CI/CD pipeline
• Fluent in English and in French
• Desire to train junior developers and explain CI/CD and cloud tool
• Contribute to a rigorous data engineering culture
• Excellent communication skills, in both formal and informal settings, and in English and French
• Strong interest in climate issues (it’s not a hoax, many people suffer from it)
• Being comfortable to work alongside corporate insurers (some still wear suits 👔)
• Willingness to help junior developers (remember how you were when you started 💬)
• Strong team spirit and ability to work (you’ll have to review code and have your code reviewed)
• Rigorous, creative and meticulous mind (we handle large insurance, we take our time)
• Strong desire to learn (there’s no limitation to the tech used, we’re happy to test and learn new tools)
• Eagerness to work in a multi-cultural environment (policies and teams are from all around the world 🗺️)

Desirable

• Due to our consistent growth, we are seeking to expand our Data, Software and DevOps team
• At the core of our company, as a DevOps Engineer your main assignments will be to make direct contributions to the CI/CD and setup cloud resources to release, deploy, maintain and run our climate risk models
• You will also have to provide support to data scientists and software engineers running and developing our models
• Your secondary mission will be to connect the external tools to automate the flow of information between the tech and business side
• CI/CD pipelines
• Data storage process
• Package versioning and releasing pipeline
• Docker environment
• Modularization of code base
• Connections to external and internal APIs
• Notification process with chat tools
• Website hosting
• Assess and evaluate the cost and the security of software architecture and implementation
• Tech stack selection
• Discussions with tech partners
• Training of tech and underwriting teams
• Support and debug of internal users
• Management of IAM policies, groups and users
• Cloud provider: GCP
• Code versioning tool: Git + Gitlab
• OS: Linux
• Container: Docker
• Container orchestrator: Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code tool: terraform
• Scripting: bash
• Code base: Python
• Notification tool: Slack

• Step 1: Call and HR Interview with our Talent Recruiter
• Step 2: Technical project submitted via GitHub
• Step 3: Technical interview
• Step 4: Manager interview
• Step 5: Final round interview with the team
• Candidates can opt to have the manager interview before the technical project and interview