DevOps Manager

The DevOps Manager will be a vital member of the DevOps Center for Enablement team and will be deeply involved in our DevOps application deployment processes and Azure Cloud strategies. The primary responsibility will be to continue the development and implementation of our DevOps strategies as well as coordinate and implement our application deployments and support our Azure Cloud activities.

Aon is in the business of better decisions.

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

• Process Improvement: Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve building, packaging, and deployment processes

• Solution Deployment: Manage all aspects of solution deployment and technical operations

• Software Delivery: Ensuring seamless software delivery through lifecycles

• Technical and Business Unit Coordination: Act as a nexus between technical and business teams

• Infrastructure Management: Deliver and partner with corporate IT for infrastructure management

• Compliance: Align with security and audit teams to ensure compliance

• Organizational Policies: Implement and manage organizational policies and procedures

• Technical Guidance: Provide guidance to team members and help them with technical aspects

• Research and resolve deployment type issues with our internal and external applications

• Effectively manage multiple, competing priorities.

• Contribute to a collaborative team environment.

• Demonstrate occasional flexibility in work hours to ensure critical coverage and facilitate weekend deployments as required.

• Be available on call (on rotation) in a 24 x 7 support role for critical issue from the international support teams.

  Specific knowledge / domain expertise required

• DevSecOps skills and experience including CI/CD experience at an enterprise level

• Understanding of Build/Release standard processes preferably within Azure DevOps

• Azure Cloud experience with the understanding of various IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services

• Cloud Hub and Spoke Architecture understanding and experience

• Experience with Terraform based Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

• Monitoring tool implementation, instrumentation, and configuration.

• PowerShell scripting

• Azure Compute, setup and optimization knowledge a strong plus.

• Experience with APM and Infrastructure performance monitoring tools a strong plus

• Continual improvement attitude, and rapidly scale to become an SME on unknowns

  Education and work experience required

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Accuracy, thoroughness, and strong attention to detail.

• Strong ability to meet deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment.

  Preferred experience

• Azure IAAS, SAAS, and PAAS experience, understanding of Cloud standard processes

• Cloud experience including using elastic demand capabilities and zero downtime deployment strategies

• Automated deployment of database objects

  How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $99,500 to $132,600 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.

The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of Chicago, IL. The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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DevOps Manager

The DevOps Manager will be a vital member of the DevOps Center for Enablement team and will be deeply involved in our DevOps application deployment processes and Azure Cloud strategies. The primary responsibility will be to continue the development and implementation of our DevOps strategies as well as coordinate and implement our application deployments and support our Azure Cloud activities.

Aon is in the business of better decisions.

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

• Process Improvement: Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve building, packaging, and deployment processes

• Solution Deployment: Manage all aspects of solution deployment and technical operations

• Software Delivery: Ensuring seamless software delivery through lifecycles

• Technical and Business Unit Coordination: Act as a nexus between technical and business teams

• Infrastructure Management: Deliver and partner with corporate IT for infrastructure management

• Compliance: Align with security and audit teams to ensure compliance

• Organizational Policies: Implement and manage organizational policies and procedures

• Technical Guidance: Provide guidance to team members and help them with technical aspects

• Research and resolve deployment type issues with our internal and external applications

• Effectively manage multiple, competing priorities.

• Contribute to a collaborative team environment.

• Demonstrate occasional flexibility in work hours to ensure critical coverage and facilitate weekend deployments as required.

• Be available on call (on rotation) in a 24 x 7 support role for critical issue from the international support teams.

  Specific knowledge / domain expertise required

• DevSecOps skills and experience including CI/CD experience at an enterprise level

• Understanding of Build/Release standard processes preferably within Azure DevOps

• Azure Cloud experience with the understanding of various IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services

• Cloud Hub and Spoke Architecture understanding and experience

• Experience with Terraform based Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

• Monitoring tool implementation, instrumentation, and configuration.

• PowerShell scripting

• Azure Compute, setup and optimization knowledge a strong plus.

• Experience with APM and Infrastructure performance monitoring tools a strong plus

• Continual improvement attitude, and rapidly scale to become an SME on unknowns

  Education and work experience required

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Accuracy, thoroughness, and strong attention to detail.

• Strong ability to meet deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment.

  Preferred experience

• Azure IAAS, SAAS, and PAAS experience, understanding of Cloud standard processes

• Cloud experience including using elastic demand capabilities and zero downtime deployment strategies

• Automated deployment of database objects

  How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $99,500 to $132,600 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.

The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of Chicago, IL. The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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