Director, Site Reliability Engineering

$175000 - $220000 / year Bonus

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution 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.

The Director Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) will lead reliability performance and observability initiatives for a portfolio of Vertafore products. This role owns SLIs/SLOs incident response automation and CI/CD practices for assigned product families. Directors will manage multiple teams and collaborate with Product Development Architecture Cloud Operations Information Security and other SRE leaders to ensure operational excellence. This role is responsible for bridging the gap between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration. You will own the lifecycle of services - from inception and design through deployment operation and refinement.

Key Responsibilities

Product Reliability Leadership

oDefine and enforce SLIs/SLOs for a subset of Vertafore flagship products.

o Drive observability strategy across application and infrastructure layers.

Release Engineering & Toil Reduction

o Oversee CI/CD pipelines for product deployments using tools like GitLab Jenkins Ansible LaunchDarkly.

o Monitor and cap Toil (manual repetitive operational work) at 50% using Automation and AI tools ensuring the team spends the remaining time on project work that scales the system.

Error Budget Management

oManage Error Budgets to balance the velocity of feature releases with the stability of the platform ensuring clear consequences when budgets are exhausted.

Incident Management

o Define and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations for assigned products; ensure rapid resolution and blameless postmortems.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

o Partner with Cloud Ops on capacity planning OS patching (app tier) and load balancing (ALB F5).

o Align reliability goals with product roadmaps and customer SLAs.

Team Leadership

o Manage a group of Managers and Engineers mentor teams on automation observability and reliability best practices.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field.

15 years in Software Engineering SRE DevOps or reliability roles; 8 years in leadership.

Proven ability to leverage software engineering principles and practices to solve reliability and operational challenges.

Expertise in CI/CD observability and incident response.

Strong AWS knowledge and experience with container orchestration.

Proven ability to lead reliability programs across multiple SaaS products.

Experience architecting applications or infrastructure for high-growth cloud platforms.

Experience in B2B SaaS environments involving large-scale distributed systems.

Proven leadership communicating and influencing at team peer and leadership levels.

Demonstrated experience driving operational excellence through metrics and KPIs.

(Preferred) Background supporting financial services healthcare or regulated industries.

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.

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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.

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