Bold Penguin

As a Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert in building highly reliable, highly scalable features and infrastructure. You’ll use DevOps principles to ensure that Bold Penguin’s software systems are always available and ready to scale to meet growing demands.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Ensure reliability, performance, and availability of our platform by working as part of a cross-functional product team.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as iteration planning, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Be part of the shared on-call rotation and proactively research possible issues affecting the availability of our platform.
• Understand and clearly articulate tradeoffs in architecture decisions with regards to cost, security, operational efficiencies, performance, and availability.
• Build and maintain infrastructure with executable code (IaC) and automated delivery pipelines.
• Be passionate about Cloud/DevOps/SRE concepts such as Immutable Infrastructure, Cattle vs Pets, Infrastructure as Code, Delivery Pipelines.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Flexible Workplace

This role is a flex office/home role and comes with the expectation you will engage onsite a certain number of working days per month, in our brand-new office located in Dublin, Ohio, with your Bold Penguin colleagues and customers. On-site workdays will be managed at the team level to maintain an environment focused on work-life balance, innovation velocity, and the delivery of exceptional customer experiences.

In this role, you will be expected to work 20% of working days per month (4 days per month on average) in the office. This is a minimum expectation. All employees are welcome to work in the office as much as they like. Applicants must be local (within 35 miles) to Dublin, Ohio.

Skills & Experience

• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS Cloud formation and other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• 1+ year experience of Kubernetes
• Experience with Amazon Web Services; specifically EC2, ECS, ELB, CodePipeline, RDS, S3, IAM, and Lambda.
• Ability to articulate Cloud DevOps concepts to a variety of technical & non-technical team members.
• Bonus points for expertise in implementing security & compliance frameworks such as SOC/2, NIST 800-53, and NIST 800-171 especially in Amazon Web Services.
• Bonus points for AWS Certifications.
• Bonus points for familiarity with microservices architectures and/or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience working at technology companies and startups is desirable.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer.
• Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing.

The expected starting salary range for this role at Bold Penguin is $125,000 to $136,200. This position offers a competitive salary range that may vary based on experience and qualifications.

Bold Penguin is a leading integrated digital solution platform dedicated to simplifying small commercial insurance. Our technology makes the quote and bind process quick, effortless, and profitable for all parties - agents, brokers, and carriers. Bold Penguin’s innovative product suite has digitized and transformed a slow, manual process resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, and better overall outcomes. For more information, please visit www.boldpenguin.com.

Or, simply put…. We simplify commercial insurance.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and progressive benefits that include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401(k) with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Disability and Life Benefits

Stay connected to the Glacier. We have great SLACK channels for work and play. We also like to video conference and hold all-hands "Waddles" regularly.

Penguin bling. Like swag themed after a certain Antarctic bird? Just. You. Wait.

Bold Penguin believes in inclusion. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. To learn more about our results-focused culture and employee-focused perks, read more on our careers page.