Principal Devops Engineer

Overview: 

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Principal Devops Engineer to join our dynamic Platform Engineering team. This team is dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining essential platform tools and frameworks that empower engineering teams with self-service, scalable, and efficient solutions. 

You’ll play a key role in modernizing our software delivery processes and ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our engineering organization. By collaborating closely with engineering teams, you’ll help create a culture of DevOps, minimizing friction and optimizing feedback loops to ensure high-quality, fast, and autonomous software delivery. 

What you’d be doing: 

• Drive the development and continuous improvement of platform tools, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and monitoring capabilities to effectively support engineering teams. 
• Design and implement self-service tools and frameworks that empower engineering teams, promoting scalability, efficiency, and reusability across various platforms. 
• Provide expert-level technical oversight and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring platform capabilities are seamlessly integrated into workflows and aligned with organizational goals. 
• Establish and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and engineering standards, ensuring platform tools remain understandable, extensible, and accessible to all teams. 
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues within platform tools, identifying root causes, and implementing robust, scalable solutions to enhance efficiency and reliability. 
• Proactively research and adopt new technologies, tools, and engineering patterns that elevate developer productivity and improve self-service capabilities. 
• Focus extensively on scalability, performance optimization, and sustainable software delivery, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost effectiveness. 
• Actively participate in on-call rotations, providing critical expertise and technical guidance to maintain production environment resilience and high availability. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and implementing DevOps solutions, with deep expertise in automation and tooling. 
• Ability to develop and document reusable, scalable solutions that enable engineering teams to operate efficiently. 
• Demonstrated expertise in automation practices, leveraging best practices and methodologies to streamline workflows and seamlessly integrate tooling into engineering processes. 
• A platform-focused mindset, capable of developing, documenting, and promoting reusable patterns that significantly enhance engineering productivity. 
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks, along with experience using ecosystem tools such as Helm, Docker, Argo Rollouts, and Ingress NGINX, to build resilient and scalable solutions. 
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Blue/Green and Canary deployments, API testing), emphasizing modular, scalable, and efficient pipeline design. 
• Proficient in automated scripting, including designing, coding, debugging, and maintaining scripts in Python, Bash, or Go, and capable of setting scripting standards and best practices. 
• Experience developing solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with comprehensive knowledge of cloud-native architecture and best practices. 
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability best practices, including the ability to design solutions that deliver actionable insights into distributed systems. 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

• Software development experience, particularly working with APIs in Java or Python or Go, with an ability to guide teams in building and maintaining high-quality integrations. 
• Advanced understanding of Linux systems and container runtimes, including the ability to architect solutions that leverage these systems for scalability and reliability. 
• Experience in the insurance and/or financial industry sectors, including an understanding of industry-specific challenges and compliance requirements.