DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer | Insurance Technology | Remote (EST-aligned)

Contract-to-Hire

Pay: $70-$80/hr W2 (contract)

$135K-$165K base

+12-15% target bonus (upon conversion)

Logistics

• Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm EST (must be able to work core EST hours)

• Location: Fully remote, must reside in one of the following states -- AZ, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, ME, MI, MT, NC, OH, UT, or WY

• Visa sponsorship: Not available for this role

• Are you a hands-on DevOps or Cloud Engineer who wants your work to directly power a national insurance platform? We're hiring a DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines behind critical homeowners insurance applications -- everything from quoting and binding to policy servicing, billing, and claims.
• This is a high-visibility role on a growing technology team, partnering closely with Software Engineering, Data, and Security to keep production systems scalable, secure, and highly available.
• What You'll Do

• Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting core insurance technology platforms

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and releases

• Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar

• Own Docker and Kubernetes environments in production

• Partner with Software Engineering to improve deployment velocity, scalability, and reliability

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across the stack

• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation for production issues

• Automate repetitive operational workflows to reduce manual toil

• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives

• Partner with Security on access controls, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation

• Maintain clear technical documentation for infrastructure and operational procedures

• Evaluate and introduce new DevOps tools and practices to improve engineering productivity

• What You Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or Azure

• Proven track record building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar)

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)

• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience

• Solid scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)

• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana, or similar)

• Working knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, certificates, and APIs

• Understanding of IAM, secrets management, and secure development practices

• Strong cross-functional troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, apps, and integrations

• Comfort operating in a production environment with real reliability and on-call ownership

• Nice to Have

• Experience in regulated, highly available, or financial-services environments

• Property & Casualty, homeowners insurance, MGA, or InsurTech background

• Experience supporting quoting, policy administration, billing, or claims systems

• Advanced AWS-native or Azure cloud services experience

• DevSecOps tooling exposure

• Experience designing or supporting disaster recovery / business continuity solutions

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• If you're a builder who enjoys ownership over infrastructure and wants to see your automation work translate directly into a smoother, more reliable insurance platform for real customers, we'd love to talk.

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