[Remote] Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance by providing large insurers with essential software solutions for efficient claims processing. They are seeking a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and build infrastructure, automate processes, and enhance security while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and build infrastructure and tooling to support the Assured platform, from scaling existing products to enabling entirely new product initiatives
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and management with Terraform and Terragrunt to ensure consistency, repeatability, and reliability across a large number of customer environments
- Evolve our platform foundations across AWS (EKS, SQS, Aurora, S3), balancing innovation with sustainability
- Partner with product and engineering teams to improve performance, and reliability across services
- Strengthen our security posture, implementing best practices and ensuring compliance with industry standards
- Improve developer experience, building systems that make it easier and faster for teams to deliver value
- Lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers across the company, raising the bar on technical excellence and infrastructure practices
Skills
- Experience architecting and operating highly available database solutions, ideally Aurora PostgreSQL
- Strong experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a scaling environment
- Ability to autonomously design, build, and scale high-quality infrastructure from early stages to maturity
- Proactive identification and solving of critical infrastructure problems, collaborating across teams where needed
- Strong engineering background and history of designing resilient systems
- Self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable working with minimal oversight
- Care deeply about reliability and building sustainable and durable systems
- Default to automation but know when pragmatism and simplicity win the day
- Make others better through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, and mentorship
- Navigate ambiguity and persist through challenges, rallying others when necessary
- Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers across the company, raising the bar on technical excellence and infrastructure practices
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Expertise and understanding in deploying and automating the delivery of modern SaaS platforms at scale
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure and tooling to support a platform
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and equity package!
- Comprehensive Health Care: Access to multiple medical plans with an HSA option and minimal out-of-pocket expenses. Certain plans covered 100%.
- Dental Insurance: We protect those pearly whites
- Vision Insurance: Everyone can see clearly now at Assured
- Life Insurance: It's on the house! Provided at no cost to you
- Paid Time Off: Uncapped vacation days and paid holidays. Take that vacation!
- Family Leave: Maternity and paternity leave options
- Financial Wellness: 401(k) contribution with Assured contributing 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Health and dependent care FSAs for pre-tax flexible spending
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