Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries and territories, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb employs approximately 40,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: http://www.chubb.com/
About Chubb India
At Chubb India, we are on an exciting journey of digital transformation driven by a commitment to engineering excellence and analytics. With a team of over 2500 talented professionals, we foster a startup mindset that promotes collaboration, diverse perspectives, and a solution-driven attitude. We are dedicated to building expertise in engineering, analytics, and automation, empowering our teams to excel in a dynamic digital landscape. We offer an environment where you will be part of an organisation that is dedicated to solving real-world challenges in the insurance industry. Together, we will work to shape the future through innovation and continuous learning.
Position Details:
Job Title: Technical Lead
Function/Department: Technology
Location: Hyderabad
Employment Type: Full-time
Position Overview:
The DevOps Lead will own the engineering practices, tooling, and automation patterns that allow application teams to build, test, deploy, and operate software reliably at scale. The role is expected to combine deep technical execution with leadership, coaching, governance, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of DevOps standards, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment governance across engineering teams.
Build and optimise automated build, test, security scan, and deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
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Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Helm, or similar technologies to create reusable, governed, and repeatable environments.
Lead containerisation and orchestration practices using Docker, Kubernetes, and managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
Establish observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
Embed security and compliance into the delivery lifecycle, including secret management, vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code, image scanning, access control, and least-privilege cloud permissions.
Champion SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, resilience engineering, and automation to reduce manual toil.
Partner with application teams to improve engineering productivity, deployment frequency, release quality, environment stability, and developer self-service capabilities.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, standards definition, and hands-on problem solving for DevOps engineers and application teams.
Drive cloud cost optimisation, platform efficiency, environment hygiene, and operational governance across non-production and production workloads.
8+ years of experience across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud engineering, release engineering, or infrastructure automation, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical ownership role.
Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling, source control, branching strategies, release orchestration, artefact repositories, environment promotion, and deployment governance.
Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, security controls, monitoring, backup, resilience, and disaster recovery patterns.
Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy, or similar languages.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, service mesh concepts, container registries, image hardening, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including automated security testing, software composition analysis, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, compliance reporting, and audit readiness.
Ability to work with distributed teams, influence engineering standards, manage technical stakeholders, and communicate clearly with both senior leaders and hands-on engineers.
Experience in financial services, insurance, regulated environments, or enterprise technology organisations is preferred.
Leadership Expectations
Act as the technical authority for DevOps engineering practices, setting clear standards and driving adoption across teams.
Coach engineers on automation-first delivery, operational excellence, secure engineering, and reliability mindset.
Translate strategic delivery goals into practical platform roadmaps, tooling improvements, measurable engineering outcomes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Success Measures
Improved deployment frequency, release predictability, pipeline automation, and lead time for change.
Reduced manual deployment effort, environment drift, incident recurrence, and mean time to recovery.
Higher adoption of standardised CI/CD, IaC, observability, DevSecOps, and self-service engineering capabilities across teams.
Why Join Us?
Be at the forefront of digital transformation in the insurance industry.
Lead impactful initiatives that simplify claims processing and enhance customer satisfaction.
Work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative, innovation-driven environment.
Why Chubb?
Join Chubb to be part of a leading global insurance company!
Our constant focus on employee experience, along with a start-up-like culture, empowers you to achieve impactful results.
Industry leader: Chubb is a world leader in the insurance industry, powered by underwriting and engineering excellence
A Great Place to Work: Chubb India has been recognised as a Great Place to Work® for the years 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026
Laser focus on excellence: At Chubb, we pride ourselves on our culture of greatness, where excellence is a mindset and a way of being. We constantly seek new and innovative ways to excel at work and deliver outstanding results
Start-Up Culture: Embracing the spirit of a start-up, our focus on speed and agility enables us to respond swiftly to market requirements, while a culture of ownership empowers employees to drive results that matter
Growth and success: As we continue to grow, we are steadfast in our commitment to provide our employees with the best work experience, enabling them to advance their careers in a conducive environment
Employee Benefits
Our company offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and professional growth. Employees enjoy flexible work options, generous paid time off, and robust health coverage, including treatment for dental and vision-related requirements. We invest in the future of our employees through continuous learning opportunities and career advancement programs, while fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our benefits include:
Savings and Investment plans: We provide specialised benefits like Corporate NPS (National Pension Scheme), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), Retiral Benefits and Car Lease that help employees optimally plan their finances
Upskilling and career growth opportunities: With a focus on continuous learning, we offer customised programs that support upskilling like Education Reimbursement Programs, Certification programs and access to global learning programs.
Health and Welfare Benefits: We care about our employees’ well-being in and out of work and have benefits like a hybrid work environment, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Yearly Free Health campaigns and comprehensive Insurance benefits.
Application Process
Our recruitment process is designed to be transparent and inclusive.
Step 1: Submit your application via the Chubb Careers Portal.
Step 2: Engage with our recruitment team for an initial discussion.
Step 3: Participate in HackerRank assessments/technical/functional interviews and assessments (if applicable).
Step 4: Final interaction with Chubb leadership.
Join Us
With you, Chubb is better. Whether you are solving challenges on a global stage or creating innovative solutions for local markets, your contributions will help shape the future. If you value integrity, innovation, and inclusion, and are ready to make a difference, we invite you to be part of Chubb India’s journey.
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