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 being part of a top-tier DevOps team, and everything that comes with it, sound intriguing? As a team member embedded in an energetic DevOps agile team, you will help build out our continuous delivery infrastructure and processes for all our products utilizing state of the art technologies. You will be involved in the operational and security monitoring and care of the infrastructure and software platforms.

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.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support large-scale web applications in a cloud environment

• Develop a strong automation practice to drive efficiencies in infrastructure, DevOps and application deployments

• Provide support in upgrading DevOps infrastructure for existing products and greenfield development

• Coordinate with software development teams in developing and implementing software applications

• Assist Managers in analyzing project requirements and project design

• Collaborate with peer organizations to develop software applications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Are eager to dive in and learn, with a willingness to be coached

• Enjoy solving problems as part of a team

• Have a strong sense of ownership

• Strong diagnostic and analytical skills

• Follow industry trends and the open-source community

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

• Are curious and avid learners

• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

• Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers

• 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

• Are familiar with microservices

• The ability to work independently, as part of a team, or in coordination with multiple teams working towards simultaneous parallel or independent objectives

Core Qualifications:

• Experience administering linux in a server related capacity, preferably Amazon and Oracle linux flavors.

• Experience performing support and administrative tasks within Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or other cloud infrastructure technologies

• Experience with setting up and maintaining modern container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, or Rancher.

• Experience with CICD tools such as Gitlab, Github, Jenkins

• Experience with infrastructure and configuration as code tools such as: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, or Puppet

• Some experience with modern scripting languages such as Python, , Ruby, bash

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Degree in Computer Science or similar valuable experience

• Experience with web application development

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 5% of the time.

• WFH Flexible

• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

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• $70000 - $80000 / year