DevOps Engineer ** local candidates only **

About Us

Colonial Surety Company is an insurance company licensed for business in every state, listed by the U.S. Treasury as an approved surety, and rated “A Excellent” by A.M. Best Company. Our distinct, digital product platform has recently expanded to include important liability coverages for small and mid-size businesses.

Founded in 1930, we use our experience—plus technology—to give busy people and businesses easy, affordable and digital access to a growing portfolio of bond and insurance products. We have an ambitious vision for impact and growth—and invite a diversity of motivated achievers to come, learn, work, create, grow—and succeed—with Colonial.

Position Summary

Our DevOps Engineer will advance high functioning systems that continuously improve customer experience as we pursue ambitious growth. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that enhance the customer experience. Through attention to collaboration across the business, the DevOps Engineer will ensure that developers understand stakeholder needs, identify technical problems and execute solutions and participate in project management decisions to drive success.

Job Functions, Essential Duties, And Responsibilities

Design and implement continuous integration and deployment platform.
Productionize local environments into cloud-scale availability
Optimize our automated infrastructure.
Systematically improve our testing and deployment pipelines and respond to emergent issues.
Create a monitoring process for system health, ensuring service uptime and automated incident response.
Build a support operating model to enable our rapidly growing customer base
Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Sciences and Information Technologies.
5+ years of progressive, related work experience and a commitment to quality design and clean code.
Full-stack development mindset, comfortable working in any part of the stack and learning on the job ( Current stack: AWS, Window server, Linux, Docker, Java, Ruby, PHP, Angular)
Passion for Window Servers, Linux, AWS, and open source,
Ability to take a functioning application running in a local environment and work with product leads to productionize in Cloud environment.
Experience designing, documenting, and deploying development pipelines that maximize engineer’s ability to quickly and safely build features
Desire to set and meet aggressive goals and ability to work in a fast paced environment with a risk management mindset
Stellar organizational, analytic and communication skills, and the ability to methodically solve problems across teams.
An energetic, agile-minded, optimistic, pragmatic and collegial team-player.

Compensation and Benefits

Colonial Surety offers:

A competitive starting salary based on experience, with achievement based opportunities for annual bonuses and increases.
Opportunities for professional advancement. We value big thinking tied to practical, collaborative execution in a structured and growth oriented company.
Ongoing mentoring from senior staff and periodic opportunities to attend industry seminars and workshops.
Starting on the first day of hire, all Colonial employees can begin participating in our excellent Major Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans.
Paid holiday and vacation time, which starts in the first year of employment and increases with tenure.
A modern, professional, suburban office space, concentrated work day (8:30-5:30) and business-attire environment.
We enjoy a professional, collegial and positive work atmosphere, sharing camaraderie and rooting for individual and collective success.

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