Sr. DevOps Engineer

Denver, CO - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 118000 - 160000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

$118000 - $160000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Does building out a top-tier DevOps team and everything that comes with it sound intriguing Do you love using Terraform and IAC to create new resilient environments As the DevOps senior software engineer/team lead embedded in an energetic DevOps agile team you will lead the team in building out our continuous delivery infrastructure and processes for all our products utilizing state of the art technologies. You will be hands on leading the architecture and design of the frameworks for the automated continuous deployment of application code the operational and security monitoring and care of the infrastructure and software platforms. You and your team will serve as the liaison between the agile development teams SaaS operations and external cloud providers for deployment operational efficiency security and business continuity.

Our DevOps teams are tightly coupled and integrated with the culture tools practices and patterns of the rest of our software engineering organization. They not only keep the lights on for our systems and networks but also empower our other development teams with cutting edge tools and capabilities to bring Vertafore products to market as quickly as possible. All of this will be accomplished with cutting edge lean-agile software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration innovation integrity mentorship commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

If you have a passion for DevOps are hungry to learn and are looking for a creative fun and friendly workplace where you get to develop software that will transform the insurance industry we would love to get in touch with you.

Qualifications:

We need a DevOps senior software engineer/team lead who:

Is a Terraform guru with 2-3 years experience creating and maintaining IAC

Have 5-7 years overall cloud experience in mission critical operations and/or DevOps engineering

Have experience developing distributed systems using Ansible Docker Puppet Chef or Jenkins

Familiarity with Kubernetes and microservices

Have experience with performing support and administrative tasks within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Azure OpenStack or other cloud infrastructure technologies

Proficiency in managing systems within multiple sites including fail-over redundancy & autoscaling (knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up always-available service)

Have experience deploying maintaining and managing secure systems

A background in software development preferably Web applications

Strong understanding and experience working with Windows Unix and Linux operating systems; specifically troubleshooting and providing administration

Enjoy solving problems through the entire application stack

Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code and infrastructure

Are comfortable being on call

We love DevOps senior software engineer/team leads who:

Are familiar with build & deploy tools such as GitLab

Proficient in monitoring and logging tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana)

Have been on the front lines of production outages both working to resolve the outage as well as root-cause the problem and provide long-term resolution or early identification strategies

Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with other developers business analysts testing specialists and product owners to create stellar software products

Have a strong sense of ownership is curious and an avid learner

Strong diagnostic analytical and design skills

Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers

Are driven to improve personally and professionally

Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them

Love to collaborate with their peers designing pragmatic solutions

Operate best in a fast-paced flexible work environment

We really like it when they:

Have experience in regulated environments

Closely follow industry trends and the open-source community identifying and proactively advocating for cutting edge tools that would optimize operational performance and/or reduce operating costs

Able to interface with and tune NoSQL databases

Have knowledge of IP networking VPNs DNS load balancing and firewalling

Have experience working in an Agile environment

Are experienced with tools such as ServiceNow JIRA and Rally

Have degree in Computer Science Information Systems or extensive experience in lieu of degree

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today were proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. Thats why at Vertafore its our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level oftrustandsecuritythat insurance is all about.

Bias to Action: Were united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.

Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

Is this role not an exact fit for you Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an at will relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

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$118000 - $160000 / yearVertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs ...