DevOps Engineer

Our Company
American Integrity Insurance (NYSE: AII) is a leading provider of homeowners insurance, proudly serving over 400,000 policyholders across the Southeast. Comprised of more than 300 insurance professionals, most of whom work in our Tampa-area headquarters, and exclusively represented by more than 3,000 independent agents, we offer sound and comprehensive property and dwelling insurance to families throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Our organization derives its Strength From IntegrityTM, and we are proud to have been recognized as a Top Place to Work in Tampa by the Tampa Bay Times and a Best Place to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance Magazine for the past twelve years. We have also rated among the Top Workplaces in the USA by USA Today for the past five years.

A Day in the Life

Who knew Insurance could be this fun? From company picnics to charity events, no one can ever say American Integrity Insurance doesn't understand the importance of having fun, helping others, or giving back. Our company culture is priceless, and it's built around our six core values: Integrity, Commitment, Teamwork, Humility, Passion, and Fun. As a team working to provide home insurance solutions to our policyholders, together we aim to achieve greater heights each day and celebrate each other's accomplishments along the way. It is our mission to continue providing reliable, customer-centric homeowners insurance and paying claims in a timely manner when our customers suffer a loss – and to do so with Integrity.

Learn more about American Integrity Insurance and our job opportunities at https://careers.aii.com.

Your Title: Dev Ops Engineer

You'll Report to: IT Engineering Manager

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for the design, effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of all hardware and software systems including all related infrastructure with a focus on supporting a team of Developers across the full SDLC.  The ideal candidate will also provide some level of network support and serve as the backup to the Network Engineer. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation, automation, build, release and deploy of system objects across the company infrastructure.  This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational guidelines.  This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the initiation and planning phases of projects to include: the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in the executing, testing and rolling-out of solutions. Participation on projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle. 

• Function as a subject matter expert on the integration of Application Development and IT Operations technologies.
• Manage and configure resources in AWS and Azure
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate deployment processes.
• Architect and implement Software Development Lifecycle and CICD processes and workflows in collaboration with development teams.
• Actively participate in project planning and design meetings to define requirements and estimate timelines.
• Produce and maintain documentation on installations, procedures and requirements for systems.
• Ensure platform stability by configuring and managing monitoring and logging services.
• Ensure through design and implementation the availability, reliability, and optimal performance of system and services.
• Troubleshoot process failures and provide root cause analysis
• Provide after-hours support on a rotational "on-call" basis and to work "off-hours" as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent years of experience in a similar position.

Experience:  Seven (7) to ten (10) years of technology and/or IT experience.

Skills                                                                                                                                                             

• Experience as a developer or software engineer working with Java codebases and Java build tools such as Gradle and Maven.
• Experience building and maintaining CICD workflows in Puppet/Chef/Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps
• Experience administering GIT based version control platforms (GitHub/GitLab/Git Premise)

• Experience with Linux System Administration and orchestration (Any Distribution)
• Scripting Experience with Windows (Powershell and CMD/Batch) and Linux Server (Shell/Bash)
• Experience developing and interacting with APIs (Any Platform)
• Experience with Database Administration (MSSQL/TSQL/PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB/OracleDB)
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman/Kubernetes/AKS/EKS)
• Experience administering or working with automated Testing frameworks (Jira + Xray)
• Solid understanding of how Docker containers work and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, etc.) 
• Ability to perform basic administrative tasks in a VMware environment.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with other teams.
• Must possess good communication, organizational, writing and customer service skills, including professional demeanor.
• Must be driven and demonstrate ownership of daily work performance.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude.
• Must be flexible and work well in a rapidly growing and changing environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational, time management, and detail skills.
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems.
• Ability to adhere to all organizational policies and procedures.

Schedule: 8:30-5:30pm, M-F.  #LI-Onsite

Working Conditions:  Normal business office environment.  Must be able to remain in a stationary position for periods of time while constantly operating a computer and or other office productivity machinery such as a telephone.  The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery or communicate with coworkers. Ability to lift 10-50 lb. required.  Occasionally, may require extended hours of work during the week and weekends. LI 

Travel: Minimum, as required.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job.  Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of job duties. 

American Integrity Insurance Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer