Dai-ichi Life Vietnam
The Senior DevOps Engineer is a senior technical contributor accountable for designing, implementing, and governing secure, reliable software delivery platforms across the enterprise. The role brings together the core disciplines of DevOps (Development and Operations) – Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) engineering, container platform operations, security integration, and release governance – to strengthen delivery speed, quality, and resilience, while mentoring junior engineers and driving the organization's platform modernization journey.
Accountabilities:
1/ Design, implement, and optimize secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (GitLab) for enterprise applications.
2/ Govern and support application deployment on Red Hat OpenShift and enterprise Linux/Windows platforms
3/ Integrate security controls into the software delivery pipeline, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), secret scanning, and image scanning.
4/ Ensure release and change management governance, including promote-to-production workflow, rollback readiness, and post-deployment verification.
5/ Implement observability practices – centralized logging, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring – to reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) for containerized workloads.
6/ Provide technical mentoring to junior engineers and drive continuous improvement in automation and platform standards.
7/ Perform other tasks as assigned by the Team Leader/Manager.
● Qualification:
- University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Good English reading comprehension and communication skills.
● Experience:
- At least 4–5 years of progressive experience in DevOps/DevSecOps, including a hands-on software development background.
● Technical Skills – core DevOps competency areas:
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) & GitOps: Design, build, and maintain automated delivery pipelines (GitLab CI/CD) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm) for enterprise applications.
- Container & Platform Operations: Hands-on experience operating and governing containerized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, including cluster and workload management.
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Proficiency in automation tooling (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, Shell Script, PowerShell) to standardize infrastructure provisioning and operations.
- Security Integration (DevSecOps): Ability to embed security controls into the software delivery pipeline, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), secret scanning, and image scanning.
- Release & Source Control Governance: Strong understanding of Git-based version control, branching strategy, and artifact/dependency repositories (for example, Nexus, Artifactory) to ensure controlled, auditable releases.
- Observability & Reliability: Experience implementing centralized logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing to support release governance and rapid incident response.
- Cloud & Development Foundation: Exposure to public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services) and a hands-on coding background in at least one language ecosystem (Java, .NET, or JavaScript) to support technical mentoring and troubleshooting.
● Skills:
- Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving under pressure.
- Effective communication and mentoring capability to guide junior engineers.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and take ownership of platform and pipeline design outcomes.
- Skilled at evaluating risks and trade-offs when architecting delivery and automation solutions.
English
Speaking: Intermediate - Reading: Intermediate - Writing: Intermediate
Since the establishment of the Representative Office in Hanoi in October 2005, Dai-ichi Life has been actively studying the Vietnam Life Insurance Market.
With the official approval of the acquisition of Bao Minh CMG by the Ministry of Finance on the 18th January 2007, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company of Vietnam, Limited. (“Dai-ichi Life Vietnam”) was established.
Entering into the Vietnam Life Insurance market, Dai-ichi Life brings with it more than a century expertise in the life insurance industry, an operating philosophy of “Policyholder First” and its commitment to management quality.
