About this role
Role Overview
The Senior DevSecOps Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring infrastructure resilience, secure software delivery, and operational excellence across the organization. This position acts as a strategic bridge between engineering, operations, and security—driving resilience initiatives, disaster recovery readiness, and continuous improvement of DevSecOps practices.
The role demands a seasoned professional with hands-on expertise in infrastructure management, DR & IT resilience planning, backup and recovery validation, and a strong ability to coordinate cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will be a trusted advisor to IT Owners, Product Owners, and Service Delivery Managers, ensuring technology services are secure, reliable, and aligned with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Resilience
- Drive the design and execution of disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including backup, recovery testing, and high-availability configurations.
- Maintain and improve infrastructure resilience, ensuring rapid and secure system restoration during incidents.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure DR plans are tested, documented, and meet business RTO/RPO requirements.
- Support service continuity and operational excellence in partnership with Service Delivery Managers (SDMs) and Operations teams.
DevSecOps Practices & Tools
- Lead DevSecOps tool evaluations, pilots, and implementations to enhance automation, observability, and security posture.
- Provide guidance and establish standards for secure SDLC and DevSecOps practices across engineering teams.
- Work on cross-functional initiatives that strengthen security integration in CI/CD pipelines.
Collaboration & Governance
- Act as a liaison between the DevSecOps team and other key teams such as CSO (chief security office), IAM (Identity and Access management), ITSCM (IT Service Continuity Management), and ServiceNow (SNOW).
- Collaborate with IT Owners and Product Owners to support process-related initiatives and ensure compliance with resilience and security frameworks.
- Partner with engineering and operations teams to drive alignment between infrastructure, resilience, and delivery goals.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams to enhance organizational maturity.
Incident Management & Continuous Improvement
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the overall IT landscape to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in collaboration with various teams.
- Contribute to post-incident reviews, ensuring lessons learned are translated into process and tooling improvements.
- Champion automation, observability, and resilience metrics to continuously optimize IT service performance.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: Minimum 12 years of progressive experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or DevSecOps roles (4+ years).
- Technical Expertise:
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and hybrid architectures (on-premises and cloud infra) with hands-on in Linux & Win platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Azure DevOps), automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible), and good to have security integration tools (SonarQube, NexusIQ, Snyk, etc.).
- Proven experience in DR planning, backup/recovery, and IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM).
- Familiarity with SDLC processes, risk management frameworks, and security standards.
- Scripting and automation proficiency (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Soft Skills:
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across technical and business domains.
- Excellent documentation, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend.
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN.
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What you'll do
- The Senior DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for driving disaster recovery strategies and maintaining infrastructure resilience. They also lead DevSecOps practices and collaborate with various teams to ensure secure and reliable technology services.
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